Most credible researchers believe immigration affects house prices. The questions are: how much, and at what cost? Peter Dutton’s Opposition has promised to cut Australian immigration by a quarter “to tackle the housing crisis“. Is migration is putting pressure on housing prices? And will a 25 per cent migration cut relieve that pressure? These seem […]| Club Troppo
Advice for homebuyers and citizens: home-deductibility and housing guarantee schemes both deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them. Introductory note: Things move fast in the race to sway the aspiring Australian homebuyer. A few minutes after publishing the first version of this post, I saw that the LNP is now promising to make mortgages tax-deductible […]| Club Troppo
Donald Trump is still trying to slash his nation’s trade deficit. Australians may recognise this task: we tackled it in the late 1980s, failed, and found that it mattered less than we thought. Video: Donald Trump has decried the “ripping off” of the US since at least the late 1980s. Hello, US readers! You’ve just […]| Club Troppo
This article deals with Federal Coalition Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s election promise to force gas producers to reduce the price of gas for Australian consumers to $10 per gigajoule. However, according to a debate on last night Q &A between Labor Climate Change Minister Ed Husic and his Coalition counterpart Ted Evans, Husic stated that […]| Club Troppo
What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That’s pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the past decade. Governments, forecasters and the media can all learn lessons from this episode. Illustration: Fibre optic cable in a Telstra pit | Author: Bidgee on Wikimedia | Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share […]| Club Troppo