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Cameron and Jonathan discuss the trend of moving from Australia to cheaper countries abroad to beat the cost of living and the apparent inability to get ahead down under.

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Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

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Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

Cameron and Jonathan examine Australia’s proposed social media ban for kids aged 16 and find it hard not to be critical of it.

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Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

A physical copy or ebook can be bought here.

Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

Robert Sobyra is the research lead at BuildSkills Australia. Earlier this year Rob predicted that Australian unemployment in December would be above 4.7%. I took the other side of the bet and that now seems to be the winning side.

Hear about why that unemployment uptick was forecast and the puzzling strength of the Australian economy, especially relative to its peers in Canada and New Zealand.

Also learn about how important immigration is, or is not, when it comes to skilled construction workers.

Find Robert on LinkedIn here.

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Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

A physical copy or ebook can be bought here.

Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

A physical copy or ebook can be bought here.

Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

Robert is an insightful Aussie commentator who has written at Fresh Economic Thinking before about the puzzle of the Labor party refusing to move left politically.

Hear Robert’s thoughts on bicycle helmets, superannuation, school lunches and public transport fares and see if you are convinced by the arguments.

Find Robert on X here.

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Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app.

Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months.

A physical copy or ebook can be bought here.

Rigged was originally published in 2017 under the title Game of Mates, but was …

Today we talk about the ongoing mystery of how to get sustained economic growth in Australia and peer nations and some of the political challenges we face trying to break out of this stagnation.

Australian journalist and economic commentator Tarric Brooker coined the term “Burnout Economics” and writes regular analysis at burnouteconomics.com.

Find Tarric on X here.

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