Weekly roundup Saturday 22 April
Nice campus, but where are the students? (ANU concourse)
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Human capital and education
Bringing together university and vocational education. How universities have adopted the fast food business model. HECS-HELP – its burden on graduates and its contribution to dumbing down learning. How one in twenty Australians gets by without having been to school. The moral and economic case for boosting “JobSeeker” payments.
Other economics
How to cripple a country – encourage it to stop investing. Dismal economic forecasts for 2023-24 – the consequence of nine years of Coalition government, a pandemic, and a central bank on a crusade. Who’s enjoying high profits at the expense of wages: it’s not only the miners. An atlas of wellbeing in Australia – you’re probably better off living in Hunters Hill than in Hungerford.
Politics
A collection of considered comments on the Voice – and no, Barnaby, it isn’t about “race”. Why the Animal Justice Party is on track to poll better than the Coalition. Opinion polls reveal the Coalition is leading Labor on many indicators, but they’re the wrong ones. Malcolm Turnbull warns Americans of a dangerous Australian in their country. How Chinese Australians see the political landscape.
Health policy
Why the government is easing off on messages about Covid – it’s about “hybrid immunity”. Medicare needs a re-design to cope with a changed pattern of disease: is the government up to it? How medical specialists have been using a business model borrowed from the old East Germany.
Public ideas
Why people end up in the slammer – it’s about social determinants. Dani Rodrik on the public ideas that will take over from neoliberalism. The difficulties in thinking long term.
Deine Mami
Remembering the Holocaust, 80 years after the Warsaw Uprising.
Links to sources of webinars, podcasts and readings
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