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The full Aussienomics archive of short economic notes and long-form essays.
2025
Bleijie's decision to block a wind farm won't just affect 'clean business', but all business in Queensland.
Labor's landslide election win delivered parliamentary power, not popular backing—and mistaking one for the other could be Albanese's biggest mistake.
Western Australia has tried to secede multiple times. But the Australian constitution, like Canada's, makes it impossible.
The Kiwis have spent and regulated their economy to death.
Why is the Albanese government risking so much political capital on such a bad policy?
Australia's tobacco taxes are a social, economic and legal disaster.
Leigh's misreading of the income inequality data means he's at risk of misdiagnosing the underlying problems in Australia.
Jim Chalmers' planned superannuation changes are an inefficient tax grab with damaging unintended consequences.
Here’s some of what I’ve been reading from outside Australia recently, along with a few short thoughts on each.
Would you choose cheaper medicines today, or incentives for innovation that could save millions of lives in the future?