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Morrison’s gone, but the stench of corruption hangs over the Liberal Party – Weekly Roundup

An industry policy in development, baby steps towards a carbon price, lessons for independent MPs who want to start a party, the virtue of working...

19.04.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Australia’s destructive housing inequality – Weekly Roundup

Housing inequality has put Australia on a destructive trajectory, how the Coalition blocks economic reform, Australia’s changing politics played out...

12.04.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Labor is slipping in the polls – Weekly Roundup

What a flat while coffee reveals about our economy, $27 billion on the table for state governments, nothing about the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case,...

05.04.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Coalition decides to re-name itself the Queensland Party – Weekly Roundup

Tasmanians show what they think of the old parties and the Coalition retreats to the deep north, inflation tumbles but the media hasn’t noticed,...

29.03.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

How the American left is becoming more stupid – Weekly Roundup

The ideas of Peter Dutton and Jürgen Habermas, the government shifts ground on intergenerational politics, a fact check on law’n’order...

22.03.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

How to fix capitalism in Australia – Weekly Roundup

With fuel emission standards Toyota Land Cruisers to cost more than Lamborghinis, economic advice from a wise lady for Treasurer Chalmers, consumer...

16.03.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Government grovels to the gambling lobby: Weekly Roundup

How scare campaigns work; the government grovels to the gambling lobby; what the media missed in the Dunkley by-election; hedgehogs, foxes and...

08.03.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

The bucolic stupidity of nuclear energy – Weekly Roundup

The bucolic stupidity of nuclear energy, repairing the damage after the Coalition’s war on learning, why Dutton would be a lousy baby-sitter. Read...

01.03.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Taylor Swift exposed as an agent of the Deep State – Weekly Roundup

Prospects for real tax reform – if only the Coalition would behave like grownups, early signs of real wage growth, no more visas for rich spivs, the...

23.02.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Negative Gearing: bad policy, fastened by a wedge – Weekly Roundup

Fuel standards weaponised, to imagine a Dutton government look at the way he ran Home Affairs, if you’re struggling financially and have private...

16.02.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Dutton’s vision of a zero-government Australia: Weekly Roundup

How our cost of living can be eased with a Woolworths-AGL-Qantas merger, government promises political donation reform before 2045 election,...

09.02.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

The case for an Australian king – Weekly Roundup

How the government’s tax changes plan will affect Lamborghini sales. What the CPI really means. Everything economists don’t know about...

02.02.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Australia developing an impoverished, disconnected immigrant underclass – Weekly Roundup

Slow progress in cleaning up the mess after decades of Coalition neglect and economic mismanagement in immigration, labour relations, school education...

15.12.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

ABC gives selected politicians licence to spread fear – Weekly Roundup

Why the RBA Board should enjoy the break on a houseboat ride, the ABC gives selected politicians licence to spread fear, bullshit, lies and division...

08.12.2023 5

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Australians disappointed because they thought they elected a Labor government – Weekly Roundup

The grand housing cartel, a couple from Point Piper resurrect Gough Whitlam’s ideas on urban development, CPI data confirms that the RBA can declare...

01.12.2023 7

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Adolf Eichmann would have been acquitted if tried under Australian law: Weekly Roundup

Something’s happening in renewable energy, the government embraces the National Party’s established approach to infrastructure funding, if you...

24.11.2023 7

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

The RBA fails to convince anyone why it increased interest rates: Weekly Roundup

Labor is too naïve in dealing with Dutton; how Canberra smooths the path for well-heeled lobbyists; how the “cost of living” obsession obscures...

17.11.2023 7

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Optus, Reserve Bank compete to slow Australia’s economy: Weekly Roundup

Green shoots in renewable energy; Optus and the Reserve Bank in a contest to slow the Australian economy; and the Trumpisation of Australian politics....

10.11.2023 8

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Taxes: Our civilization deficit – Weekly Roundup

A look at deficits in democracy and our common wealth; Why we’re working too hard; What women find in Australia; Gramsci and the right; The politics...

03.11.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Public policy won’t stand a chance under Dutton’s politics – Weekly Roundup

If Dutton does to the next election what he did to the Voice referendum, public policy won’t stand a chance; the “Home Affairs” experiment has...

27.10.2023 5

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

Liberal Party falls into the dark world of far-right populism: Weekly Roundup

The Voice vote — a setback for reconciliation and for Australian democracy. Businesses behaving badly. Stan Grant and John Coltrane. Read on for the...

20.10.2023 9

Pearls and Irritations

Ian Mcauley

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