Justin Pyvis

NSW, WA and SA have all announced steps that will increase housing supply. But to improve housing affordability for good, we need to ensure it's politically sustainable. That means communicating with locals and lifting density across entire cities, not just in 'well-located' areas.

The vaping crackdown will impose huge costs on users, drive some to the black market and force others to smoke more cigarettes, despite vapes being far less harmful than smoking. Instead of prohibition, regulate vapes like alcohol.

As a replacement for last Friday’s missing Fodder courtesy of the long weekend, here are a few short takes for you to muse over to start your week, from last week’s happenings that probably didn’t need a full post._

I'm honestly not sure why Albo was willing to risk so much political capital on a relatively small distributional change just to get his very own Oprah moment. But the whole stage 3 tax cut song and dance is a recurring sideshow to a much, much deeper issue: bracket creep.

I fired up my crystal ball and took a bit of a punt on this one. Well, not really, but if you're interested in my thinking on when the RBA might start cutting rates (hint: not anytime soon) then you should check it out.

Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week’s happenings that probably didn’t need a full post.

I’m going to venture out beyond our borders today because what’s happening in Argentina is quite possibly the wildest reform experiment the world has seen… ever. And believe it or not, the results could offer some important lessons for Australia.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Last week, federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek decided to block Victoria’s Victorian Renewable Energy Terminal, a port that would have been used for the state’s planned offshore wind industry, citing the damage it would cause to wetlands, including:

Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week’s happenings that probably didn’t need a full post.

Over the past couple of years, food in Australia has become expensive. So much so that even politicians have started to (belatedly) take notice. That’s usually a good sign that there’s going to be some kind of policy response, once the various reviews are completed and briefing notes are prepared. I’m not sure what form it will take, or how and when it will happen, but the sheer volume of political statements made over the past couple of weeks all but guarantees something is brewing. The common thread throughout: the perceived lack of competition and pricing power in the sector, but especially for the two major supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths.