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The left needs to get social capital right, read IPA Review
‘Social capital' is the most important social theory idea over the past two decades. In opposition and now in government, the federal Labor Party has spent a lot of time talking about social capital. Labor believes that social capital is...
Baby bonus rise bad for babies
Sometimes a policy is so irredeemably bad that nothing short of abolition is the appropriate course. Unfortunately, sometimes the awful policy is a political superstar, beloved by all but the worst curmudgeon. The baby bonus is such a policy. Set...
Submission to the Review of the National Innovation System
Preparing for the baby cull
Global warming is bringing out the usual suspects who will use any alleged threat to humanity's existence to argue that the world would be a better place with less humans living on it. Having a degree in any branch of science seems to especially...
20 years reveals gigantic strides in international trade
The politics of trade policy often obscures what should be an unambiguously positive story about the globalisation of the world economy. Goods which were previously produced on a single site are now produced in a virtual international factory-each...