Economics
Plastics are still a problem and there's room for improvement with green alternatives

How green are plastic alternatives? What about those LEGO bricks?  
Market mysticism and the misinformation that dudded Australia

Australia didn't just embrace market economics; it embraced the myth that efficiency alone coul ...  
AI resilience is the next step after the Government's AI regulatory framework

Australia is regulating AI. But who is planning for AI resilience?  
Liberals continue with nonsense immigration policy

Liberals' immigration policy linking net migration to completed houses is putting the cart befo ...  
The top ten troubles with Taylor’s tenets

Many of the claims made by Liberal Party Leader Angus Taylor are debunked by clear evidence.  
Australia's fairness problem is holding productivity back

Rather than flowing into higher wages, a growing share of productivity gains has failed to show up ...  
Rigged game: Australia's obscene concentration of wealth

It’s past time that Australians reasserted that the democratic state is superior to the fortune ...  
Australia's export slump quietly dragging down the economy

Australian exports have turned from being a significant positive for economic growth and rising ...  
Economists and newsrooms collaborate to lie about Australia’s economy

Australia’s media has hit a new low in deceptive reporting, but with one positive note.  
Fertility rate falls: More and more Australians are choosing to be child-free

For a growing number of Australians, the decision to remain child-free is a rational calculation ...  
Sovereignty surrendered: U.S. firm Palantir invited into the engine room of ADF

Defence software sovereignty is outsourced to U.S. firm Palantir in a $7.6 million limited tender ...  
Jacinta Allan Victoria's best bet due to rabid media's unhinged disdain

The “Ditch the Witch” campaign is back, now directed at Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, and ...  
The deal that could balance the government's books as well as our own

A social new deal that can balance the government's books as well as our own, eliminating aust ...  
The Starlink challenge: Australia's next hyperscaler problem

Starlink's long-term ambitions appear to extend well beyond telecommunications access.  
FROM WARFARE TO WEALTH — The $368 billion question: What AUKUS is really costing us

Australia's promised AUKUS jobs boom comes at an extraordinary cost, with billions flowing over ...  
The fair go has got up and gone

Australia can keep telling itself the fair go is alive, but fairness is not a slogan or kerosene ...  
Centre v Right populism: Same grievances, different answers

Can Community Strong Australia deliver policies that address the economic conditions driving ...  
Australia's wealth belongs to its people, not foreign corporations

Despite its vast natural wealth, too many Australians are missing out on its benefits.  

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