Surely Albanese isn’t crazy enough to call a double-dissolution: Weekly Roundup

Aug 5, 2023
Wheeler's Hut
Housing is back on the agenda (Snakey Plain, NSW)

The RBA holds interest rates; Pollsters stunned to learn that most Aboriginal Australians support the Voice; and  Surely Albanese isn’t crazy enough to call a double-dissolution. Read on for the Weekly Roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.

Economics

The RBA holds interest rates – right decision, confusing explanation. Full employment – what part of “full” don’t economists understand? Fixing a date for the death of neoliberalism. Why airlines treat you with contempt. Weird stuff happening in the housing market. The urban geography of industrial growth.

Politics

In the name of “free speech” the right spreads confusion and mistrust in government. We need to keep pushing Labor on political finance reform. Why do our taxes fund commercial media so generously while starving the ABC and the SBS? Surely Albanese isn’t crazy enough to call a double-dissolution. The Home Affairs Department – a failed Dutton attempt to replicate Putin’s FSB.

The Voice

Frydenberg’s commissioned inquiry comes out strongly in support of the Voice. Pollsters stunned to learn that most Aboriginal Australians support the Voice. SkyNews launches a savage attack on Liberal Party politicians. “Advance” and “Fair Australia” uncovered.

Public ideas

How a public idea shapes policy, even when evidence shows it’s wrong. Productivity is about more than buying a few new labour-displacing machines.

Hiroshima

Links to sources of webinars, podcasts and readings

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