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Keep dental out of Medicare

April 20, 2025 - 21:39 -- Admin

Many people think that if Medicare works for getting sick, it must also work for dental and anxiety and ADHD and various other types of problems.That isn’t necessarily the case.One big problem for any sort of health intervention is the interested carer. They have an incentive to suggest you need treatment.In the case of classic sickness, overtreatment has been restrained through various mechanisms.

The First Home Guarantee expansion: bad for buyers, good for sellers, yet again

April 13, 2025 - 15:01 -- Admin

Advice for homebuyers and citizens: housing guarantee schemes deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them.

A young woman who I have known for many years messaged me yesterday to ask a question. She and her partner have been saving hard for a year or so, and were planning to save for a few years more. This a pattern that millions of Australians have followed over the past two hundred years, and it has generally worked well.

People get weird about trade: an Australian trade policy history for the Trump era

April 5, 2025 - 10:14 -- Admin

Donald Trump is 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. 

Hello, US readers! You’ve just started an interesting economic experiment to see whether government policy can change a trade deficit into a trade surplus.

Cheap gas? Cheap nuclear? Yeh nah

April 1, 2025 - 12:45 -- Admin

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 the cost price of most Australian gas was around $7 per gigajoule with another $4 paid by the producers for transporting it to market.

Copilot stopped talking to me

November 14, 2024 - 19:34 -- Admin

I was reading some arguments by Bettina Arndt recently about women dominating the legal profession, especially in the Family Law sphere, so I thought I would the check the facts. This is my modus operandi. Read polar views on an issue (I also consult OurWatch and White Ribbon on issues like this) but then check the facts to see who deceive and lie (which these days go under the Orwellian names of “mis” and “dis” information).

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