Weekly roundup Saturday 21 October
In the country it was a lonely campaign for “yes”
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
The Voice
How we voted. Seven reasons we voted “no”. How Dutton is changing the political landscape: public ideas and policy are out: fear, division, misinformation are in, as the Liberal Party follows Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Victor Orbán into the dark world of far-right populism.
Other politics
How they do politics in New Zealand – they’re ahead of Australia in recognizing the end of the two-party winner-take-all system. Optimistic signs for Poland.
Economics
Speculation on the Reserve Bank and its reaction to external shocks. The employment white paper provides a fresh look at the labour market. Productivity and wages – who gets most of the benefits (spoiler: it isn’t labour). Qantas provides material for business school case studies of bad practice. The rest of corporate Australia – it too is giving capitalism a bad name.
Public ideas
Stan Grant on time, democracy, politics, the media and John Coltrane. Martyn Goddard on how we believe weird stuff.
John Coltranee
Both directions at once
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
