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Assessing Australia’s March quarter GDP figures; why productivity is still everything; how opinion polls can be dangerous; and where are all the Korean babies?

Lower electric vehicle prices are the result of healthy market competition, not a bubble bursting.

Whether it’s being sold under the banner of a “New Paradigm”, “new centrism”, “neopopulism”, or a “Future Made in Australia”, industrial policy will lead to less growth, insipid labour productivity, and a much poorer and more vulnerable Australia.

Why we shouldn’t worry about migration; interpreting the monthly inflation figures; will AI displace financial market traders; should we worry about the ‘pink tax’; and Albo’s gift, on our behalves, to PNG’s elites.

Australia’s migration slowdown will ease housing issues but exacerbate its ageing population and fiscal problems, requiring unpopular entitlement reform and improved fertility rates to sustainably fund old-age benefits.