Club Troppo

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...

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...

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, 2025April 10, 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...

Democracy Sortition and citizens’ juries

Elections and Sortition: two systems, two destinies, two ways to do politics

Nicholas Gruen

January 26, 2025

In the pretty likely event of a hung parliament after the next Australian election, the cross-bench becomes kingmaker. I’m hoping — and expecting —...