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What an absolute legend of the Australian media. The epitome of ABC values - knowledgeable, innovative, objective, fair and unbiased. An irreplaceable national treasure. abc.net.au/news/2025-02-2… Thanks for everything Antony Green - elections

A lot of work from a few people has gone into this week's ABC News Daily special on Australia's housing market, and what's gone wrong over the past three decades to push housing out of the reach of ordinary Australians. Please listen and share if you like abc.net.au/listen/program…

Great piece Vince Rugari smh.com.au/sport/soccer/y…

"For every investor that sells, guess who buys? It used to be a tenant. Someone who didn't own a home buys a home." - Gerard Minack. Right now, Victoria is the leading state for first home buyers. abc.net.au/news/2025-03-0…

All five episodes of the Housing Hostages podcast are live now. I hope the series has presented a diversity of perspectives and ideas about why housing became so expensive in Australia, and how to fix it. abc.net.au/listen/program… Listen, and share if you like it. #ausecon

I think Peter Tulip makes a compelling argument for increasing supply to reduce housing costs in abc.net.au/listen/program… Whether it's enough on its own to arrest the decline in home ownership is another question.

The culmination of a lot of work on this over the past few months, building on almost two decades of interest and research on this issue abc.net.au/news/2025-03-0… #ausecon #ausbiz

Thought I'd give Blue Sky a try and see what it's like. You can find me there bsky.app/profile/mike-j…. But I'll also hang onto this account, at least for the time being.

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This is a very good and worrying read from Alan Kohler abc.net.au/news/2025-04-1…. Anybody at all familiar with 20th Century history should be keeping a close eye on much of what's happening within the US right now.

Finally, a children's book that correctly explains that penguins only live in the Southern Hemisphere and DO NOT naturally coexist with polar bears. Thank you Julia Donaldson !

As usual, Annabel Crabb absolutely on the money with her column abc.net.au/news/2025-04-1… Read down for the discussion of how tax incentives have supercharged Ute Man.

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A very good analysis by Alan Kohler. abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0… clearly Alan isn't much of a golfer!