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How to raise first-home prices: Supercharge demand, and pretend you didn’t
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How to raise first-home prices: Supercharge demand, and pretend you didn’t

David Walker
April 13, 2025April 16, 2025
Advice for homebuyers and citizens: home-deductibility and housing guarantee schemes both deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them. Introductory note: Things move fast in the...
Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy
Economics and public policy History Politics - international Politics - national

Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy

David Walker
April 5, 2025April 10, 2025
Donald Trump is still  trying to slash his nation's trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and...
Climate Change Democracy Politics - national

Cheap gas? Cheap nuclear? Yeh nah

Ken Parish
April 1, 2025April 1, 2025
This article deals with Federal Coalition Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s election promise to force gas producers to reduce the price of gas for Australian consumers...
12 lessons from the weird, unnoticed end of Australia’s bitter broadband war
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12 lessons from the weird, unnoticed end of Australia’s bitter broadband war

David Walker
December 31, 2024April 3, 2025
What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That's pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the decade to 2025....
Bullshit Democracy Politics - national

Minority government would be no bad thing

Ken Parish
October 14, 2024October 30, 2024
The common view from politicians and so-called experts is that minority government is dreadful. I don't agree. Nor, it seems, does former Rudd and Gillard...
Climate Change Environment Politics - national Uncategorized

Nuclear power – nirvana or nonsense?

Ken Parish
October 8, 2024October 24, 2024
The federal Coalition's adoption of a policy involving government-owned construction of 7 nuclear power plants around Australia has raised an argument that most people thought...
Economics and public policy Education Innovation Politics - national

Sleep promotion takes off globally

Nicholas Gruen
June 17, 2024June 17, 2024
I recently published this musing in my Substack newsletter. And coming across a further free kick from the policy world — something that would have...

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