Weekly roundup Saturday 28 February
Canowindra, ready for a Gen Z influx
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Politics
The Coalition’s new team: An economically clueless bunch, exposing the failings of political parties.
One Nation’s supplemented team: Polls reveal weird stuff about One Nation’s supporters – it’s more complicated than the press is reporting.
Why opinion polling has become unreliable: Don’t blame the pollsters; it’s about restive voters who are disgusted with the two-party system.
Economics
The productivity story: A non-partisan analysis from the Productivity Commission – the private sector could do better
Tax the rich?: By all means restore progressivity in the tax system, and we should also remove Howard’s incentives for real estate speculation.
Central banking exposed: Why we whinge about a cash rate of 4 percent in a way we didn’t when it was 17 percent.
The January CPI: Nothing to get excited about.
Other public policy
Public health indicators: Child vaccination rates and road fatalities are heading in the wrong direction.
Internal migration: Gen Z (aged 18 to 29) are leaving the capital cities, but where are they going?
Public ideas
On a conspiracy of decency: Not all conspiracies are evil – good people can conspire to do good stuff.
On collective action: A presentation, in 14 short videoclips, of the logic of collective action
On immigration: Immigration policy is difficult; we should stop trying to pretend it’s simple.
On terrorism: What it is, where it’s of concern, where it actually happens, and who commits it.
Introducing or re-introducing the Yidaki
If you have comments, corrections, or links to other relevant sources, I’d like to hear from you. Please send them to Ian McAuley — ian, at the domain name ianmcauley.com
