Weekly roundup Saturday 12 September
We’re not the only country threatened by the extreme right
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Politics and society
Taking the antisocial out of “social media”: the government’s “My Feed my Way” legislation has social media oligarchs worried — that’s why true conservatives should support it.
Labor’s sports rorts: the Major and Local Community Infrastructure Program was a stupid idea from the outset.
Sachsen-Anhalt’s election: the electoral success of the extreme right Alternative füaut;r Deutschland has important lessons for Australia.
Our contested tobacco market: a struggle between criminal networks for control of the market.
What we expect from government: Australians want competent and capable government, not “small” government.
Australia’s energy transition
Who bears the cost of the transition? There are good and bad ways of handling it.
Data centres’ appetite for electricity: the government’s trouble in setting rules for data centres exposes a weakness in our emissions policy.
Other economics
Long term bond rates: they have been rising, and that has implications for the real economy.
Our lopsided settlement pattern: Another push for a less concentrated distribution of our population.
Public ideas
Australia has changed but we may not have noticed: two public intellectuals explain profound changes that have crept up on us..
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