Weekly roundup Saturday 9 November
Student debt reform – a first step to rebuilding our capabilities
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Politics
Political similarities between the US and Australia, and the Coalition’s links to the Trump camp. How the National Anti-Corruption Commission flunked its first real test.
Rebuilding Australia’s resilience
Lessons learned from the way we dealt with the disruption of a pandemic. The government takes a few steps in rebuilding our universities, battered and degraded by the Coalition’s war on learning.
Demographics
The government has some control on immigration, but unless it fixes the economy it won’t have any influence on our rate of reproduction. How immigrants keep Australia healthy.
Other economics
Ken Henry demolishes the idea that the mining industry is the “basis of our strong economy”. How the Reserve Bank is destroying its own credibility while it destroys Australians’ hopes.
Public ideas and the US election
Three essays that describe and challenge our ideas about US-Australian political differences.
Once upon a time in America
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