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Should working-age welfare payments use indexation tied to living standards like pensions? Australia's working-age "income support" payments - JobSeeker, Youth Allowance, Parenting Payment, AusStudy and ABSTUDY - are indexed twice-yearly to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This contrasts wit...

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23.09.2025 09:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Paradoxical Economics of the Energy Transition How the Promise of Renewable Energy Abundance Prevents its Realisation... and other related paradoxes.

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This essay covers many topics including: the relationship between abundance and profitability, the concept of "bankability", and the theoretical basis of industrial policy.

21.09.2025 22:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Should Australia scrap Pillar 1 of the AUKUS security partnership (the nuclear submarines deal)? Pillar 1 of the AUKUS agreement, signed between America, Australia and the UK, has two elements: (i) Australia acquiring UK-designed nuclear-powered attack submarines and (ii) the rotational basing of...

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Should Australia scrap Pillar 1 of the AUKUS security partnership (the nuclear submarines deal)? Pillar 1 of the AUKUS agreement, signed between America, Australia and the UK, has two elements: (i) Australia acquiring UK-designed nuclear-powered attack submarines and (ii) the rotational basing of...

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Should Australia scrap Pillar 1 of the AUKUS security partnership (the nuclear submarines deal)? Pillar 1 of the AUKUS agreement, signed between America, Australia and the UK, has two elements: (i) Australia acquiring UK-designed nuclear-powered attack submarines and (ii) the rotational basing of...

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It's now been almost 4 years since the AUKUS announcement but is there still time for Australia to give up on AUKUS, and would that be a good idea?

22.05.2025 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Should Australia abolish the 50% Capital Gains Tax (CGT) discount? Australia’s 50% CGT discount allows individual investors to pay tax on only half of any capital gain from assets held longer than 12 months. Introduced in 1999 as part of the Howard Government’s respo...

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11.03.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Should Australia adopt nuclear as per the Coalition's plan? On 13 December, following more than a year of media discussion and debate around the Coalition's nuclear vision, Frontier Economics released the economic modelling in support of it. We are now in a po...

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Should Australia adopt nuclear as per the Coalition's plan? On 13 December, following more than a year of media discussion and debate around the Coalition's nuclear vision, Frontier Economics released the economic modelling in support of it. We are now in a po...

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Bills on Direct Democracy Forum The display of bills hosted on the forum.

If you really want to be informed heading into the next Australian election, it would be a good idea to check out the bills currently before parliament. This website - directdemocracyforum.com/bills - allows you to peruse all these bills, and give your opinion and rating for each one.

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04.01.2025 05:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Should Australia adopt nuclear as per the Coalition's plan? On 13 December, following more than a year of media discussion and debate around the Coalition's nuclear vision, Frontier Economics released the economic modelling in support of it. We are now in a po...

A forum for contributing to the debate on the Coalition's nuclear plan: directdemocracyforum.com/policy-quest...

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04.01.2025 05:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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02.01.2025 09:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Direct Democracy Forum (Australia) A forum for discussing bills currently before the Australian Parliament, and policy ideas that would improve the country.

Aus pol has a new website for debating and voting on federal legislation and policy ideas: directdemocracyforum.com

The first policy idea under debate is the Coalition's nuclear plan: directdemocracyforum.com/policy-quest...

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