Most credible researchers believe immigration affects house prices. The questions are: how much, and at what cost? This post aims to establish some baseline facts on the basis of which sensible arguments can be made about immigration and housing. Key … Continue reading →
Essential Guide: Choosing the Perfect Payroll and Super Processing System for Your Business
“Unlock business growth with our essential guide to choosing the perfect payroll & super processing system! #BusinessSuccess”
Advice for homebuyers and citizens: home-deductibility and housing guarantee schemes both deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them. Introductory note: Things move fast in the race to sway the aspiring Australian homebuyer. A few minutes after publishing the first version … Continue reading →
Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?
“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”
Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.
Donald Trump is still trying to slash his nation’s trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and found that it mattered less than we thought. Video: Donald Trump has decried the “ripping … Continue reading →
Epiphany plays an outsized role in the reductionist two-step model of invention. Step one is when an idea pops into an inventor’s head, and step two is when the invention spreads in an economy over time.
This model is misleading in numerous ways that would take a book to enumerate. Today’s column focuses on step two, aiming to one piece. How and why do businesses embed the invention in products and services while the invention spreads?
This article deals with Federal Coalition Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s election promise to force gas producers to reduce the price of gas for Australian consumers to $10 per gigajoule. However, according to a debate on last night Q &A between … Continue reading →
A prototype is a product or service’s early sample, model, or release. It is built to test a concept or process and serves as a tangible representation of an idea. Some prototypes are primarily commercial, while others are scientific.
Prosper Australia urges the government to embrace real reform that ensures prosperity is shared by all.
The post 2025 Budget betrays locked-out generation, kicks reform further down the road first appeared on Prosper Australia.
Prosper Australia was proud to join with Per Capita and a host of other organisations across the community sector in presenting the 2025 Community Tax Summit. Held in the richly historic Trades Hall, the Community Tax Summit was a two-day conference that brought together researchers, advocates, people with lived experience, and economists to examine how […]
There was an ostensible “news” article on the ABC news site about Trump’s executive order (EO) titled “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.” The capitalisation is not mine; it is in the … Continue reading →
As part of a new policy, I’m going to post stuff I’ve published on my substack here where it’s substantial enough, or where I want to be able to link to it without the distraction of all the other stuff … Continue reading →
In the pretty likely event of a hung parliament after the next Australian election, the cross-bench becomes kingmaker. I’m hoping — and expecting — the crossbench to seek greater use of citizen assemblies in governing Australia. But what comes … Continue reading →
What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That’s pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the decade to 2025. Governments, forecasters and the media can all learn lessons from this episode. Illustration: Fibre optic … Continue reading →