Weekly roundup Saturday 5 August
Housing is back on the agenda (Snakey Plain, NSW)
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Economics
The RBA holds interest rates – right decision, confusing explanation. Full employment – what part of “full” don’t economists understand? Fixing a date for the death of neoliberalism. Why airlines treat you with contempt. Weird stuff happening in the housing market. The urban geography of industrial growth.
Politics
In the name of “free speech” the right spreads confusion and mistrust in government. We need to keep pushing Labor on political finance reform. Why do our taxes fund commercial media so generously while starving the ABC and the SBS? Surely Albanese isn’t crazy enough to call a double-dissolution. The Home Affairs Department – a failed Dutton attempt to replicate Putin’s FSB.
The Voice
Frydenberg’s commissioned inquiry comes out strongly in support of the Voice. Pollsters stunned to learn that most Aboriginal Australians support the Voice. SkyNews launches a savage attack on Liberal Party politicians. “Advance” and “Fair Australia” uncovered.
Public ideas
How a public idea shapes policy, even when evidence shows it’s wrong. Productivity is about more than buying a few new labour-displacing machines.
Hiroshima
Links to sources of webinars, podcasts and readings
If you have comments, corrections, or links to other relent sources, I’d like to hear from you. Please send them to Ian McAuley — ian, at the domain name ianmcauley.com
