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3 days ago |
spectator.com.au | Dimitri Burshtein |Peter Swan
Australia’s economic stagnation has become so widespread and persistent that it must be asked whether it is simply the product of bad luck or poor decisions, or is it the result of something more deliberate. Could the collapse in Australia’s productivity be the result of a calculated effort by parts of the political and bureaucratic elite, an elaborate exercise in quiet economic dismantling, carried out in plain sight?
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.com.au | Dimitri Burshtein |Peter Swan
Australians have an unusual habit of celebrating public policies that the rest of the world politely declines to imitate. It is regularly claimed, for example, that Australia’s compulsory superannuation system is the envy of the world. Yet despite the fanfare, no other country seems eager to replicate this innovation. Another proudly touted but globally unadopted Australian practice is the peculiar pairing of compulsory voting and compulsory preferential voting.
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3 weeks ago |
spectator.com.au | Peter Swan |Dimitri Burshtein
Australia’s political and economic direction is beginning to travel a well-trodden and dangerous path. A path that increasingly looks Argentinian. For decades, successive Australian governments have expanded the personal and corporate welfare state.
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1 month ago |
spectator.com.au | Dimitri Burshtein |Peter Swan
If the 2025 Australian federal election proved anything, it’s that the era of major party dominance is approaching its end. It is true that Labor secured more seats than in the previous election, but the combined first preference flow to the major parties continues its downward trajectory. The voters have spoken.
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1 month ago |
firstlinks.com.au | Noel Whittaker |James Gruber |Peter Swan |Dimitri Burshtein
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