Saturday, 3 October 2026
Some basics on incidence of student loan relief
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Labour proposes wiping 10% off of outstanding student loan balances for domestic borrowers that are not in arrears and who have not benefitt...
Friday, 2 October 2026
Supermarkets and due process
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I hate election years. The Commerce Act sets out penalties and remedies for various types of anticompetitive conduct. Do the anticompetitiv...
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Australia and vaping
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Action on Smoking and Health NZ's Prof Beaglehole went on tour in Australia. Other NZ public health academics who want to copy Australia...
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Against laissez-faire democracy
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Jason Brennan and Christopher Freiman have fun applying standard market failure arguments to democratic politics . A snippet: Each of the m...
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
American questions about Australian online safety
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The US Embassy in Canberra has raised a few concerns about Australia's Online Safety Amendment (Duty of Care) Bill . The same concerns ...
Thursday, 10 September 2026
The case for unilateral recognition
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Bilateral, plurilateral, and multilateral are words that New Zealand's civil service love. There is nothing that can't be improved b...
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Migration or Stagnation
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Michael Clemens shows that a rise in noncitizen worker prevalence in Korea from 3% to about 14% over four decades would offset the effect o...
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