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What ails millennials?

Nicholas Gruen
May 17, 2025
I came upon this explanation for millennials’ lack of a work ethic. I don’t want this to seem censorious of millennials. In fact I have...
Immigration cuts and housing prices: what research says (and media should report)
Economics and public policy Immigration and refugees Journalism Politics - national

Immigration cuts and housing prices: what research says (and media should report)

David Walker
April 21, 2025April 30, 2025
Most credible researchers believe immigration affects house prices. The questions are: how much, and at what cost? Peter Dutton's Opposition has promised to cut Australian...
How to raise first-home prices: Supercharge demand, and pretend you didn’t
Economics and public policy Politics - national Social Policy

How to raise first-home prices: Supercharge demand, and pretend you didn’t

David Walker
April 13, 2025April 16, 2025
Advice for homebuyers and citizens: home-deductibility and housing guarantee schemes both deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them. Introductory note: Things move fast in the...
Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy
Economics and public policy History Politics - international Politics - national

Trade rips nobody off: A Trump-era history of recent Australian trade policy

David Walker
April 5, 2025May 13, 2025
Donald Trump is still  trying to slash his nation's trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and...
Climate Change Democracy Politics - national

Cheap gas? Cheap nuclear? Yeh nah

Ken Parish
April 1, 2025April 1, 2025
This article deals with Federal Coalition Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s election promise to force gas producers to reduce the price of gas for Australian consumers...
Gender Media Political theory Science Social

The ABC (ombudsman) stopped talking to me

Chris Lloyd
March 9, 2025March 12, 2025
There was an ostensible “news” article on the ABC news site about Trump’s executive order (EO) titled “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING...
Bargains Cultural Critique Gender History Race and indigenous Review Space

Is the cultural revolution on gender, race and sexual orientation at risk?

Nicholas Gruen
January 28, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW_IPF2GSpw As part of a new policy, I'm going to post stuff I've published on my substack here where it's substantial enough, or where I...

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