Tom Dusevic
@tomdusevic
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Columnist @australian; Author 'Whole Wild World' (NewSouth)
Joined February 2015
Superb work from Maltman. Take the time and don't miss the footnotes
I’ve got an essay out in Inflection Points this morning arguing we can improve our supply-side conversation. I also argue we should see zoning reform in the same vein of 1990s microeconomic reform: lowering prices, boosting productivity, and expanding markets.
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Erin Clarke shows how Gen Z young men are more likely to hold traditional gender beliefs than older men—and far more so than their female peers. https://t.co/BJdGu4sNNo
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OUR LEADERS ARE PLEASERS, NOT DOERS How should our politicians be judged? Both sides understandably compare themselves to ‘the other lot’, and proclaim themselves better. And commentators sometimes say that today’s policy or promise is better than it used to be. Yet those are
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Australia's birth rate is falling but political parties have no policy solution. Baby bonus treasurer Peter Costello says it will crash productivity.
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It might be the Prime Minister’s last stand, but taxpayers be warned: the big spending era will roll on: https://t.co/x7Vq4xFvw0
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Good work here from the AFR's @michael_read_ on the dark arts of the budget and how there's more money flowing out of Canberra than it cares to admit ...
afr.com
Australia’s budget numbers are increasingly a mirage as billions in spending are labelled as ‘investments’ to improve the fiscal optics.
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The extra out of pocket costs won’t break the bank for retirees – but the policy game has changed forever: https://t.co/avUsIVUomF
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I'm going to go out on a limb and conclude the leading two suburbs here are the locations of Cro-run aged care homes
Here are the suburbs with the highest % of people born in Croatia by state/territory. Bell Park, VIC takes the top spot, with 6.5% of its residents born in Croatia 🇭🇷
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Loved this! https://t.co/rOBIU58csK In my day the public service seemingly demanded terrible writing So bad that, after I left, I tried to instil the rule that any work we did not only had to be right, it also HAD TO BE UNDERSTOOD If you're not understood, you've failed
afr.com
Blair Comley has applied what he calls “the AFR test” as he pushes executives in his federal health department to write and think more clearly.
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Re-badged and re-hashed ... the arguments against planned car emission changes are straight out of the oil/car industry playbook of the 1980s ... my take ...
theage.com.au
Vested and political interests are using old arguments to slow or stop a change that will reduce our petrol bills and improve our air quality.
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“A gentle man with a curious, tough intellect.” That’s a very good description of Tim Colebatch, who has died after years of great journalism for The Age and others. RIP, Tim. https://t.co/IYDX2U8cfo
theage.com.au
The Age’s former long-standing economics editor, Tim Colebatch, who prided himself in “sorting the truth from the spin”, helped Australians understand some of the most profound economic reforms of...
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The federal opposition claims the government is running a ‘Big Australia’ policy by stealth. The business lobby is aghast. Such politicisation is an act of self-harm. But what exactly is Labor going to do about it? https://t.co/edx6Is0FHw
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Indigenous voice to parliament: Father of reconciliation Patrick Dodson rues our uncivil discourse @australian
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"Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous ‘I don't know.’" Poet Wisława Szymborska's magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech about the creative power of uncertainty https://t.co/QAtnvTLuJ0
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My boss has got guts. Here she is in today’s @australian issuing a challenge to Australia’s policy commentariat: ‘OK, so what’s your solution?’ @danielleiwood @GrattanInst @ozprodcom #auspol #ausecon #tax
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From higher prices to poorer service, here’s how a lack of competition damages Australia. Rod Sims on how the recent issues with Qantas illustrate some of the consequences of Australia’s extremely concentrated economy
theguardian.com
The recent issues with Qantas illustrate some of the consequences of Australia’s extremely concentrated economy
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Like most governments, this one arrived in office promising more accountability and transparency. Also like others, in practice it has a penchant for control and secrecy https://t.co/1ABBg0R1SN
theconversation.com
Like most governments, this one arrived in office promising more accountability and transparency. Also like others, in practice it has a penchant for control and secrecy.
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As young families in the mortgage belt are smashed by runaway living costs, cashed up boomers are on a spending spree:
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