This Month
What’s holding us back from a better housing, transport and clean energy future
Australia doesn’t lack ideas for solving problems in housing, transport and clean energy, we lack institutions that can follow through and create change.
March
Want to quit your job? Your contract may be keeping you prisoner
Non-compete clauses – now common in contracts from construction workers to hairdressers – are used not to protect secrets, but to scare people.
April 2024
Labor’s making merger law fit for a modern economy
The government’s reforms will make Australia’s approval system faster, stronger, simpler, more targeted and more transparent.
The man who discovered people hate losing more than they like winning
Daniel Kahneman was one of the few psychologists to win the Nobel Prize for economics.
February 2024
Megacorps are the 21st century’s great threat
Labor minister and economist Andrew Leigh argues that companies as big, financially, as nations are a danger to consumers and their employees.
February 2023
Let’s stop governments from making the same mistake twice
Many government programs start with too little evidence to back them up, and no study of what worked and what did not. That is going to change.