Weekly roundup Saturday 17 August
Is it time to update the way TV is funded?
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Media
How the media works – it’s not pretty. Better ways to fund TV than reliance on gambling addicts. The case for keeping cinemas alive.
Economics
RBA Governor Bullock visits her home town and discovers there is economic wisdom in the bush. Wages have stopped falling but they aren’t rising.How our tax system does well in avoiding poverty traps. Forget what the National Party says: people in the bush are quite enthusiastic about renewables, so long as they are involved. How the gas industry came by its social licence. NAPLAN reveals education inequities and lost opportunities.
Politics
Can we blame Alan Joyce for Qantas’s problems, or are they systemic? More evidence that we’re past peak populism. How immigrants navigate our electoral system.
Public ideas
How to counter populists’ lies before they take hold. Don’t think it’s only the “left” who engage in cancel culture.
Woodstock
This weekend, 55 years ago.
If you have comments, corrections, or links to other relevant sources, I’d like to hear from you. Please send them to Ian McAuley — ian, at the domain name ianmcauley.com
