Weekly roundup Saturday 6 April
The ACT lights the path to state tax reform (Black Mountain, Canberra)
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Economics
Australia’s position in the Human Development Index is slipping. Productivity is picking up, at last. What a flat white coffee reveals about our economy. A minister gives ten commandments for economic policymakers. How state governments can get another $27 billion a year if they follow the ACT’s lead. The slow road to lowering vehicle emissions.
Politics
Alarming revelations about our heavy-handed security state. The finances of the Voice campaign – who are these people donating to far-right front organizations? Labor is slipping in the polls, but the government treats with contempt those who could help it form government next year.
Education
How to run a university: charge high fees and give everyone high distinctions. Harvard starts to loosen the intellectual shackles imposed by the DEI police.
Public ideas
Fifty shades of liberalism. The human population birth rate is falling below replacement: does that matter?
Short cops
Police to relax height restrictions on recruits.
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