Australia wasting migrant talent on an 'industrial scale', experts say
By Gareth Hutchens
Australia is failing to recognise the qualifications of highly trained permanent migrants, former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson says.
#Immigration #Productivity #EconomicGrowth #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #AgeingPopulation #Inflation #Recession #GarethHutchens
Australia has to attack misinformation about climate change, Senate report says
By Gareth Hutchens
Australia needs to increase its efforts to fight back against misinformation about climate change, a Senate report says.
#DisinformationandMisinformation #ClimateChange #EnergyPolicy #OilandGas #RenewableEnergy #GovernmentandPolitics #Senate #PoliticalDonations #GarethHutchens
Price of poverty hurts us all, yet research reveals an easy fix
By Daniel Ziffer and Gareth Hutchens
In 2020, Australia massively increased welfare payments and conducted a live experiment in ending poverty, but when the subsidy was removed, many were thrown back into hardship. Leaving aside the moral dimension, would it be cheaper to end poverty than to maintain it?
#Poverty #Unemployment #Tax #CostofLiving #SocialPolicy #Welfare #DanielZiffer #GarethHutchens
In 2020, Australia massively increased welfare payments and conducted a live experiment in ending poverty, but when the subsidy was removed, many were thrown back into hardship. Leaving aside the moral dimension, would it be cheaper to end poverty than to maintain it?
#Auspol #HousingPolicy #AusHistory #GarethHutchens
interesting, quick read.
key points:
“Under the leadership of Robert Menzies, the Liberal-Country opposition would thereafter be strongly for individualism, free enterprise, and home ownership, in contrast to the Labor government's socialism, controls, and apparent denial of home ownership.
Widespread home ownership would be key to building up Australia's middle class. It would improve social cohesion and ensure that younger generations would have material lives that were as good, if not better, than their parents.
If you owned your own home, you'd have something to defend. It would turn you from a potential revolutionary into a citizen.”
….WHAT HAPPENED/“
“In the last few decades, under the leadership of both Liberal and Labor governments, that old belief that Australia would prosper if younger generations and low-income households could afford to purchase their own homes was apparently discarded.
A generation of Australians was encouraged to buy more houses than it needed.”
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