Weekly roundup Saturday 1 November
Child care the Australian way
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Politics
The dismissal 50 years on: There’s unfinished business about our relationship with a foreign country and the powers of the Senate.
The Cronulla riots 20 years on: It’s time for us to have a proper Australian flag.
Opinion polls: Polls on voting intention, the Australia-US relationship, net zero, thoughts on how the country is travelling, housing policy.
Economics
Hockey sticks and creative destruction: The Nobel Prize in economics for work on the drivers of economic growth.
Our expensive and brutal child care system: We’ve had 20 years to learn that for-profit child care doesn’t work.
Inflation: The latest CPI has a message about taxes, but we don’t want to hear it, and we go on ignoring house price inflation.
Public sector capability: The need to build public sector capability still hasn’t caught on in Australia.
Hpw to score a cheap flight: Look poor.
Public ideas
The Boyer Lectures: They’re about Australia’s radical experiment in democracy.
What comes after the liberal international order? We don’t know, but we shouldn’t assume the worst.
Do voters pursue their economic self interest? Not always.
The prime minister’s wardrobe
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
