The working behind our policies. Each memo takes one question, sets out what we found, names every source, and states what we would do about it — so anyone can check it for themselves. The policies themselves are in the Library.
Housing solutions, part one. Memo 6 set out the predicament; this sets out the first answer. A new Community Town zone — privately owned mobile dwellings on shared rural land, communal kitchens and workshops, portable between communities. Not a substitute for owning a house. The rung before it.
Read →A record of the current position. Prices, rents and vacancy; what is being built and by whom; what governments have committed; land, labour, builders, empty homes and demand — capital city and country, set out with sources and without argument.
Read →Queensland charges its coal and gas on a price-stepped schedule and it works. A proposal to do the same nationally, for every commodity, on one levy applying onshore and offshore — and to charge a fair rate for gas and oil, which return 4.7 per cent of their value to the public today.
Read →Australia takes about $61 billion a year from extracting its ore. What each state charges and collects, what the sector pays in company tax on top, why no state raises its rate, what Traditional Owners receive in law, and how the total divides between the Commonwealth, the states and Traditional Owners.
Read →Two companies own most of what Australians read. How the market became one of the most concentrated in the democratic world, what “bias” really means, and how we would open it up.
Read →The national broadcaster has stepped back from X and locked comments on its articles. For a publicly funded service whose charter is to engage citizens, that direction is the wrong one.
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