Weekly roundup Saturday 5 September
Ignore Angus Taylor and the press reports — your house hasn’t lost value
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Politics
The Secret Harbour by-election: “white Australia” endorses One Nation.
The antisemitism commission: how often do we have to point out that criticism of the Netanyahu government is not antisemitism?
Let’s have age-weighted voting: how about limiting the franchise to people aged 16 to 65?
Economics
National accounts: unexciting but reasonably solid.
Housing wreckage: reports of a fall in the value of our houses are misleading, unless we have a strange idea about “value”.
Getting gas companies to pay their way: disagreement on royalties or a resource rent tax, but no disagreement on their obligation to pay for what they take.
What are we complaining about? A short reflection on our material living standards.
Public ideas
Living together in the political agora: we need something more uplifting than transactional politics.
None shall sleep in Münster
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
