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UQPPES Statecraft Autumn Lecture, March 2022 Let me start with my thesis. Much of the contemporary debate about housing affordability is a d...

...and many journalists will lap it up uncritically. Like the dozens of previous housing inquiries before it, Falinski’s inquiry into housin...

Read My COVID Story - Part 1 here . January 2021 - Sticking with the crowd I was approached to write a short piece for The Mint magazine. I ...

I’ve long puzzled over the exact mechanism by which planning regulations are supposed to constrain the rate of new housing supply. Sure, the...

March 2020 — People lose their minds My first ever public comment about COVID was this . I was both prescient and wrong. Everyone has lost t...

*This article is based on a  submission to the Housing Supply Inquiry that I contributed to for Prosper Australia. This neglected economic ...

I listened to a frustrating Sam Harris podcast about COVID policy yesterday. What struck me about these "expert" commentators was...

Not that long ago Germany as a whole f eatured heavily in this debate over planning rules and house prices. With Frankfurt topping the lates...

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” ’The qu...

A video of my testimony to the inquiry is here (from 11:00:00) My full written submission is here  and my follow-up response to questions r...