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

Public policy

Progress on the Uluru Statement and a Voice to Parliament. The interest rate hike: is inflation really the problem? Our failing capital market or why the stock exchange is becoming irrelevant. Gas – can we please, please, have a bit of what isn’t contracted to foreigners? Productivity: why it’s important and why it has fallen.

Australian politics

Discretionary grants – why is the federal government involved in bowls club change rooms in Betoota? Newspoll is looking good for the government but what is a political “honeymoon”? How the media is stuck in a dysfunctional model of the political debate.

The pandemic and other health policy

Perhaps this wave of Covid-19 has peaked in Australia. Why public health relies on engineers. How health policy is made.

Public ideas

Is social media undermining democracy? America’s left: does it have any relevance for Australia? Hiroshima this day 77 years ago.

Links to sources of webinars, podcasts and readings They took the children away

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