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Australia's 'deeply unfair' housing system is in crisis – and our politicians are failing us

“The fact that one of the least populated countries on Earth contains the world’s second most expensive housing is a national calamity, and a stunning failure of public policy,” writes Alan Kohler, in the latest Quarterly Essay.

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Five Great Reads: the housing wealth myth, Disney’s year of flops and breaking our addiction to stuff

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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Alan Kohler: Time to revisit the Allan Fels system of price control – naming and shaming

It’s time to revisit the Fels system of price control.That is – put some resources into price surveillance, and name and shame the gougers.

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Alan Kohler: RBA hasn’t broken its habit of making horribly wrong interest calls

Pessimists fearful of a Reserve-Bank trifecta of runaway inflation, massive unemployment and house-price collapse need to get a grip.

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Alan Kohler: Just like banking, the AI revolution needs to be regulated

Hundreds of the Big Tech's greatest minds are pleading that we don’t wait for an AI disaster before getting our regulatiory act together now.

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Alan Kohler: Why the RBA thinks if there must be a recession, there will be a recession

The implication of what Philip Lowe said is that unless productivity improves fast, there will have to be a recession.

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Alan Kohler: How the rise of China changed America – and not for the better

Republicans and the White House finally agreed to extend the debt ceiling for two years. Meanwhile, the decline of America gathers pace.

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Alan Kohler: Productivity has collapsed because workers have lost hope

Between March and December last year, Australian productivity – GDP per hours worked – actually declined 4.1 per cent.

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Alan Kohler: The battle for America’s heart, soul and future

Republicans are threatening to force America to default on its debt if there isn’t a crackdown on welfare for the poor.

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Alan Kohler: The confusing, ridiculous state of economic forecasting

There was a time when we were sure that interest rates wouldn’t change for three years. That illusion was cruelly dashed a year ago.

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Alan Kohler: Population growth equals economic growth, but for whom?

We need immigration to replace ageing Baby Boomers. The problem isn't population growth, its the disconnect with housing and infrastructure.

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Alan Kohler: A beautiful, lucky, meaningless budget

Jim Chalmers has produced a budget document that beautifully navigates the difficult terrain of economics and politics.

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Alan Kohler: Reduce emissions? Fine, but we need to do much, much more than that

Grim report about carbon sequestration being vital on top of reducing emissions to save Earth scored scant media attention. That's a tragedy.

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Alan Kohler: Why this week’s RBA meeting was different

Jim Chalmers is touting 'responsible' spending. Can it be “responsible” in the context of the battle by the RBA to slay inflation?

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Alan Kohler: As far as this ABC broadcaster is concerned, there’s no place like home

I can’t remember whose idea it was for me to do the finance reports from home during the COVID pandemic, but I was all for it!

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Alan Kohler: Something strange and sad is happening to the Labor Party

Something strange and sad has happened to Labor. The policy courage of Whitlam, Hawke and Keating has been replaced.

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If the RBA were a company, the governor would be out of a job

If the RBA were a company, the board would have and should have sacked Philip Lowe long ago. But they couldn’t; they knew it and he knew it.

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Alan Kohler: America has no friends, only interests – and the world’s reserve currency

A lower US dollar is not only likely, it’s already happening – the US dollar index has depreciated 10 per cent in five months.

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Alan Kohler: Don’t get too accustomed to low unemployment. Here’s why it won’t last

With unemployment now back at 3.5 per cent, workers seem to have regained their bargaining power – until technology takes it away again.

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Alan Kohler: If Anthony Albanese was serious about the rental crisis, he would do this

If Anthony Albanese was serious about dealing with the 2023 rental crisis, he would resuscitate Kevin Rudd’s NRAS.

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Alan Kohler: If the Liberals hope to survive it must be as progressive conservatives

Maybe the Liberal Party needs to split, like Labor did in 1955. Failing that, it must regroup and rebrand to reflect modern Australia.

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Alan Kohler: The complicated, dismal aged-care funding paradox

Seventy per cent of costs are staff, and costs must keep rising because the sector is struggling with staff shortages.

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Alan Kohler: Australian agriculture businesses fighting to secure the future of food

The death last week of John Kerin at 85 took the man who had done more for agricultural innovation in Australia than anyone since HV McKay. Kerin was

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Alan Kohler: Why Australia’s emissions reduction target is not enough

Climate change is still seen as a political/ideological issue, but three degrees of warming would have utterly catastrophic consequences.

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Alan Kohler: Australia’s biotech sector has suddenly got much bigger

It wouldn’t take much of a nudge from the government to create a very vibrant and economically significant biotech industry.

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