Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.

Politics

How Labor won or did the Coalition lose, and how long has it been losing? Why the Coalition wants to raise the voting age to 65 and disenfranchise anyone with a university degree. Why we yearn for a return of the Communist Partys Tribune to the newsstands. The new Senate its different from the last one. Elections: One Nation resurgent in Callide, Queensland; Macron loses in France.

Public policy

Julian Assanges incarceration in England is just one of many human rights challenges for the new government. How to increase household incomes by $3000 a year. The Reserve Bank’s inflation obsession: pity about if the economy has to suffer. Housing no easy policy options. Early schooling: Perrottet and Andrews break from convention but not in the way the press reports it. Its now pretty well certain that many more of us have had Covid-19 than the official figures suggest, and death rates are much higher than in other developed countries..

Public ideas

Whats good for business isnt always good for Australia. Financial wealth ebbs and flows with the worlds central bank decisions.

Links to sources of webinars, podcasts and readings.

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