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Aussienomics

Transport

Rail is very expensive in Australia
Transport Infrastructure
Before Australia builds yet another airport line, we should learn from existing ones that run mostly empty and cost taxpayers a fortune.
Notes from Tokyo
Japan Travel Housing Transport
What I learned about housing and transport from walking Tokyo’s Yamanote rail loop.
A lesson in reform from across the ditch
Reform Technology Transport
Australia should follow New Zealand’s lead and replace inefficient fuel excise taxes with road user charges that better align costs with actual road use.
A bad tax that keeps getting worse
Tax Transport
Australia’s luxury car tax is an outdated, distortionary revenue grab that quietly expands through bracket creep, punishes consumer choice, and delivers little in return.
The trilemma of age limits, Housing constraints matter, Prices work, and What grows productivity.
Health Prices Housing Transport Productivity
Here’s some of what I’ve been reading from outside Australia recently, along with a few short thoughts on each. The trilemma of social media age limits # The Albanese government’s social media age limits— a bad idea based on junk science—will be in place by the end of 2025.