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George Packer's article in The Atlantic

The three-party system (rerun from 2016)

Nothing

Australia and China turn a new leaf in economic relations

Geopolitics has already doomed the second nuclear renaissance

From COVID to climate: Queensland’s new emissions pledge shows state governments are once again leading change

Remember the nuclear renaissance: well, it's over

Training my replacement ?

Bernard Keane on why Labor should stick with Morrison's tax cuts

‘Progressive’ Labor is dead — supporting stage three tax cuts is pointless

COP28 deal confirms what Australia already knows: coal is out of vogue and out of time

Half-time for the Albanese government

Two charts in Australia’s 2023 climate statement show we are way off track for net zero by 2050

What is the actual economic benefit of the Grand Prix?

Presentism and veganism

Another employer trying to drag workers into the office

Machine learning is old hat

In defence of effective altruism

Recipe for a one-term government, reheated

The Reserve Bank is not your friend

Can generational analysis be saved?

Update on paid subscriptions

The big one

Retrofuturism

It’s good the High Court overturned Victoria’s questionable EV tax. But there’s a sting in the tail

Books and more that influenced me

The morning after

Why the ‘drug dealers defence’ doesn’t work for exporting coal.

Lucy and the football

An offer for paid subscribers

Balance or both-sidesism

Living in the 70s: why Australia’s dominant model of unemployment and inflation no longer works

French Lesson: we don't need nuclear power, we need a new Pierre Messmer

Paid subscriptions coming

Europe's Bradbury moment

As gas-guzzlers dominate our roads, the queue to buy an EV in Oz just gets longer

A quick victory lap

A weekend is a long time in politics

We can talk about a higher rate of GST in Australia, but it will never happen

The intergenerational report will try to scare us about ageing. It’s an old fear, and wrong

Second thoughts on the second HAFF

The Fragmentation of New Media

Can the Voice be Saved?

Against the Repugnant Conclusion

The limitarian implications of utilitarianism

How dangerous is the European far-right ?

Disaster and denial

Dutton wants Australia to join the “nuclear renaissance”

The wheel turns

Daniel Ellsberg has died

Pew quits the generation game

The Evolution of Working Hours: From the 8-Hour Day to the Four-Day Week

Labor shuffles to centre-right as three-party system waltzes in

Self-defence economics vs military economics

Brissie to the Bay

Why nuclear power won’t work in Australia

Five minutes of sunshine?

Yes, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek approved a coal mine.

Reviving post-post-Fordism

Looking forward to the Budget (not!)

To understand Albanese's politics, imagine him as the typical Labor voter

Job creation isn’t always a good thing.

Living in the US is like having a super-dangerous job

Corrected link

Triple header !

Underestimating Albanese

Gentlemen don’t read other gentlemen’s mail, yet again

Join me on Notes

Elon at it again

Climate change, ironically,reduces the heat in the South China Sea

The meta-view from meta-nowhere

Opening the Overton Window

Neoliberalism’s child

The hierarchy of excuses

$18 million a job?

The case for AUKUS falls apart

Dominic Perrottet’s future fund ...

Have we reached electricity’s carbon-free tipping point?

'Red Alert' is a paper tiger

MSM suckered on super tax concessions

Some hope on global heating

Australia’s banks are not a source of economic dynamism but a drag on our economic and social welfare

Anti-presentism = anti-wokeism ?

Adani and Madoff

Mitigated disaster

The Voice to Parliament referendum is in danger of defeat

Dasein and Der Fuhrer