Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Possibilities of political funding reform – easy in principle, but could get tricky in the details. Opinion polls – the Albanese government is still travelling well.
Australia asserts its global and national stakes in renewable energy. Reminder to the Reserve Bank: we’re not the Weimar Republic in 1922 or Australia in 1982. First home ownership – we have spent a lot of public money on first home buyers, but too much on the demand side, too little on the supply side, and without the framework of housing or settlement policies. Dreyfus’s decision to drop Bernard Collaery’s prosecution is welcome, but there’s more to be uncovered about the whole ugly incident.
It’s back in full force, killing Australians and overloading our health systems, but we have the burdens of the Morrison government’s “living with Covid” contempt for public health and the present government’s terror of raising taxes to fund health care adequately. Please let us have a mask mandate.
Reminder: we live in a society, not in an economy, and we shouldn’t get too hung up about money we owe ourselves. The seven habits of highly effective nations: how many are Australian habits?
Links to sources of webinars, podcasts and readings.
Europe celebrates Bastille Day.
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” .
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