Clean wheels keep on turning: reducing truck air-pollution in urban areas
Trucks. They deliver essential items – especially in the COVID lockdowns – but most of us want them off our local streets. Whether it’s the pollution or the noise, there are serious side-effects to tr...
28 Aug 202220min
How to prevent pork-barrelling in Australian politics
From sports rorts to regional slush funds, there seems to be no end of pork-barrelling scandals , where governments have been caught using public money to target certain voters for political gain. T...
21 Aug 202218min
Skills to pay the bills: Migration priorities for the government at the Jobs and Skills Summit
With massive worker shortages across the country, migration is expected to feature heavily in the upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit, which brings together employers, unions, and governments to discuss t...
15 Aug 202225min
Ooh, shiny! Infrastructure projects and the not-so-shiny cost-benefit analyses
Is it worth it? It’s the question that should be asked whenever governments come up with a shiny new infrastructure idea. But too often, major projects are announced as election promises, without eval...
1 Aug 202213min
How to respond to surging COVID hospitalisations
The hospital system is at risk of breaking under the pressure of rising COVID cases. Hospitals are understaffed due to thousands of workers in isolation. Patients are being treated in corridors. Elect...
25 Jul 202219min
Putting an end to jobs for mates in Australian politics
Jobs for mates – it’s frustrating when it happens in everyday life. Even more so when it happens at the highest levels of politics. A plum job as Trade Commissioner for a former Deputy Premier. A spot...
17 Jul 202217min
A brief history of superannuation
Earlier in July, Australia’s compulsory superannuation system turned 30 years old. Alongside Medicare – Australia’s universal health insurance scheme - superannuation is held up as one of the key ec...
10 Jul 202225min
How Australia’s industrial sector can flourish in a net-zero world
With the new Albanese government committing to cut carbon emissions by 43% by 2030, along with pressure from newly elected independents and Greens MPs, there’s a sense of hope that that environmental ...
3 Jul 202224min
