Weekly roundup Saturday 25 July
Do public schools get a fair deal? (Murrumbateman school)
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Education
How education relates to support for One Nation: it’s more complex, and more challenging, than you may think.
Rich kid, poor kid: our socially segregated school system results from decades of poor policy decisions by Labor and Coalition governments.
Morrison’s war on learning hasn’t ended: we’re all poorer when we penalize young people for choosing to study humanities.
Economics
Means testing — the cases for and against: means testing can provide governments with fiscal flexibility, but it can also contribute to social segregation.
Tax the rich: the case for wealth taxes has never been stronger.
Our modest policy reaction to artificial intelligence: the government’s policies on artificial intelligence are modest, but are about as far as they can go for now.
Didn’t you know that higher interest rates result in inflation? The Reserve Bank ticks us off for our heretical beliefs on interest rates and inflation.
Politics
Can our government have a policy on Islamophobia? Should a secular society have policies directed to people of particular religious beliefs?
Peak Pauline? One Nation’s support is down 9 percentage points from its peak.
Public ideas
Prophets of end times: religious fanatics prophesizing the end times are mostly harmless, until they turn up in powerful political circles.
Vale Pink Panther
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
