Health - Aussienomics

Industrial policy

Another costly bailout, Medicare's funding boost, 13 ideas to fix housing, why the WA GST deal is fair, and the decline of German trains

This update has become something of a weekly policy analysis wrap, given the flurry of announcements we're getting ahead of a federal election that now looks like it'll be held on or before 12 April (today is the deadline for a 29 March election to be

Trade

More on Trump's tariffs, Albo's upper class welfare, Dutton's housing gimmick, Canada's pain, Australia's challenges, and why are so many of us disabled

The fallout from the first Trump 2.0 tariffs has continued into the week, with the latest casualty (other than global equities) being the risky crypto that had been bid up on what was 'supposed' to be a market-friendly Trump government: Crypto and equities subsequently rebounded a little

Housing

Getting serious about housing, ending the Future Fund, the latest bird flu, just tell the truth, and lessons from the NBN

I trust everyone's nice and refreshed from the summer break! Lots of interesting things to discuss today, starting with some positive-sounding housing policy news from NSW. Potentially good news on housing The NSW government and the opposition are getting serious about housing: "NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman

Health

The unintended consequences of the vaping crackdown

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.