Justin Pyvis
Justin holds a PhD in economics and has 20+ years of policy and investment experience across Australia, NZ, and Hong Kong. These days he’s often found walking cities (jwalk.ing, trying to understand how they work.
Solar's death spiral
WA’s battery subsidy is an expensive fix for today’s grid issues that risks undermining its long-term economics.
The RBA's inflation trap
How monetary easing and unchecked government spending may threaten Australia’s fragile recovery.
Another costly bailout, Medicare's funding boost, 13 ideas to fix housing, why the WA GST deal is fair, and the decline of German trains
This update has become something of a weekly policy analysis wrap, given the flurry of announcements we’re getting ahead of a federal election that now looks like it’ll be held on or before 12 April (today is the deadline for a 29 March election to be called).
Can we fix housing?
Decades of policy decisions have strangled construction productivity, making housing increasingly unaffordable in Australia.