The Policy Post

  Need health care in Australia? Just try not to be young. When there’s not enough health care for everyone, who misses out?

  How the Tasmanian government screws its workers. Most state governments have tried to suppress the wages of their employees. Nowhere have the effects been as savage as in Tasmania.

Labor on refugees: just as nasty and even more secretive. Refugees in Australia’s detention camps learnt long ago that hope was an illusion. The new Labor government, endorsing the Coalition’s cruelty, has again shown them the bleak wisdom of hopelessness.

Do our climate targets mean anything at all? Reaching net-zero in 27 years looks near-impossible. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than getting rid of coal-fired power stations.

You’re better off than you think. (Who knew?) All the news is bad. Power prices up, wages down, interest rates up. Poverty and doom await. Or do they?