Ian McAuley's Weekly roundup - Will workers of Australia unite?
August 26, 2022
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
How to persuade real men to drive electric cars: make them affordable. Employment and unemployment: wages have to respond at some time but without collective bargaining the process will be slow. Economists have warnings for the Reserve Bank, but are they listening? The indiscretion of discretionary grants: they only get governments into trouble. Why Malcolm Turnbull will vote yes for an indigenous voice to Parliament.
The solicitor-general and Australian republicans on Morrisons magic ministries. The Albanese government is approaching the popularity enjoyed by Archie Roach and Judith Durham.
The pandemic and the flu may be losing their oomph. Economic and political reflections on Covid-19 in Australia. The GP shortage, or why GPs drive Toyotas while neurosurgeons drive Ferrraris.
From different perspectives Liz Cheney and Viktor Orbn attest to democracys fragility, while Stan Grant warns us that what happens in Wyoming and Texas can also happen in Australia. The welfare state 130 years after Bismarck under pressure from the budget repairers.
Ian McAuley
Ian McAuley is a retired lecturer in public finance at the University of Canberra. He can be contacted at “ian" at the domain “ianmcauley.com” .