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How many lives lost on government projects in Australia?

A way to reframe the cost of government projects. Government projects, whether to build a local road, construct a tunnel, or develop a software system, almost without exception come in overdue and over-budget. As was the case with the Snowy Hydro 2.0 (a pumped hydro battery project) having an initial budget of $2 billion and blowing out to $13 billion; or the Queensland health project to build a…

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Is Australia’s Housing Market a Bubble?

Evaluating the Soaring Costs and Regulatory Dynamics of Australia’s Housing Market NOTE: This article was originally written, but not published in 2021. I have updated a few parts of it to reflect the current period. Is Australia’s housing market a bubble? Well, I am not sure which is why I pose the question. Do I think that that houses are overpriced, yes. Do I think that government policies…

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Are Australians paying more tax today than in the past?

An analysis of the burden of tax on Australians As described in my previous article, I developed a metric to help answer the question “Are Australians paying more tax today than in the past?”. I called this metric the Crude Tax Burden (CTB) (See the article linked above for a breakdown of the benefits and drawbacks of this measure). Simply, it calculates the per capita total tax in Australia,…

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Make Liberty Sexy Again

I first learned about the political philosophy of libertarianism from non-other than Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation. Although a fictional character aimed at parodying libertarians, my exposure to him sparked my interest in the libertarian philosophy. I realised that libertarianism seemed to pick out the best components of the right and left sides of the political spectrum: the tolerance…

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I have officially created a substack. Feel free to join me and delve deep on Australian Policy through a libertarian lens.

#libertarian #australia #queensland #government

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A Way to Measure the Tax Burden

How not to measure the tax burden I set out with the question “Are Australians paying more tax today than in the past?” a couple of months ago. Initially, I thought this would be an easy question to answer. I assumed that a couple of quick Google searches would point me to the “perfect” ATO (Australian Tax Office) or ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) data sets. This was not the case. My…

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#Government #Increasing Tax? #Measure of Tax #Tax Burden #Taxes

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Housing Affordability, is the State Government Actually Helping?

Recently the Queensland government announced a land release and $350,000,000 to aid in infrastructure development. The land release does have some strings attached, in that the dwellings eventually developed must be Social and Affordable housing. Generally interpreted as townhouses and apartments Deniliquin Pastoral Times. The purpose of this article is to provide the background of how we ended…

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#Housing #Queensland Government