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Rail is very expensive in Australia
Before Australia builds yet another airport line, we should learn from existing ones that run mostly empty and cost taxpayers a fortune.
Australia's slow-motion fiscal trainwreck
Australia’s looming fiscal crisis won’t be solved by clever tax reform—it requires institutional constraints on spending that no politician wants to discuss.
JWalking has moved!
JWalking now has its own website, go check it out!
The city where (almost) anything goes, Part 1
I spent a couple of days walking the streets of Tokyo, observing the city’s ‘anything goes’ approach to zoning that lets people build, trade, and experiment in ways Australian cities can’t.
Fixing Australia's energy mess
Australia’s energy crisis has been worsened by subsidies and arbitrary targets. The fix is simple but politically hard: separate climate goals from energy policy, free up gas and transmission investment, and legalise nuclear so markets—not ministers—can determine the energy mix.