Inflection Points
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Inflection Points is the new home of high-quality, longform Australian policy writing.
Travis Jordan argues that Australia’s next democratic flourishing depends on rebuilding participation through political parties, not bypassing them.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Travis Jordan argues that Australia’s next democratic flourishing depends on rebuilding participation through political parties, not bypassing them.
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Supply has a PR problem. When asked to think about the economy, most of us think of the demand-side. But the most powerful levers for change are often on the supply-side.
Matt Maltman shows why fixing that matters →
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Matt Maltman shows why fixing that matters →
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November 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Supply has a PR problem. When asked to think about the economy, most of us think of the demand-side. But the most powerful levers for change are often on the supply-side.
Matt Maltman shows why fixing that matters →
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Matt Maltman shows why fixing that matters →
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Standards are the invisible architecture of technological progress. In Australia, that architecture is paywalled and crumbling—and it's making it harder to build.
Flavio Menezes argues that the current model needs a fixed.
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Flavio Menezes argues that the current model needs a fixed.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Standards are the invisible architecture of technological progress. In Australia, that architecture is paywalled and crumbling—and it's making it harder to build.
Flavio Menezes argues that the current model needs a fixed.
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Flavio Menezes argues that the current model needs a fixed.
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Brendan Coates shows how sclerotic land-use systems have made well-located homes artificially scarce, pushing prices and rents to historic highs and hollowing out inner-city opportunities for the young.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Brendan Coates shows how sclerotic land-use systems have made well-located homes artificially scarce, pushing prices and rents to historic highs and hollowing out inner-city opportunities for the young.
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🚨Issue 03 | Inflection Points | OUT NOW🚨
- Flavio Menezes
- Brendan Coates
- Matthew Maltman
- Travis Jordan
- Flavio Menezes
- Brendan Coates
- Matthew Maltman
- Travis Jordan
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🚨Issue 03 | Inflection Points | OUT NOW🚨
- Flavio Menezes
- Brendan Coates
- Matthew Maltman
- Travis Jordan
- Flavio Menezes
- Brendan Coates
- Matthew Maltman
- Travis Jordan
🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️
There’s a playbook that nearly every successful Australian tech company has used to win globally: Build here, test here, export everywhere.
We discuss the Aussie tech landscape with Brandon Sheppard, COO of Instant.
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There’s a playbook that nearly every successful Australian tech company has used to win globally: Build here, test here, export everywhere.
We discuss the Aussie tech landscape with Brandon Sheppard, COO of Instant.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️
There’s a playbook that nearly every successful Australian tech company has used to win globally: Build here, test here, export everywhere.
We discuss the Aussie tech landscape with Brandon Sheppard, COO of Instant.
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There’s a playbook that nearly every successful Australian tech company has used to win globally: Build here, test here, export everywhere.
We discuss the Aussie tech landscape with Brandon Sheppard, COO of Instant.
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🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️
Is Australian venture capital missing something?
After 4 years as a partner, Jessy Wu left to build a company VC wouldn't touch.
We discuss cognitive bias dressed as intuition, & why democratizing VC is key to innovation.
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Is Australian venture capital missing something?
After 4 years as a partner, Jessy Wu left to build a company VC wouldn't touch.
We discuss cognitive bias dressed as intuition, & why democratizing VC is key to innovation.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️
Is Australian venture capital missing something?
After 4 years as a partner, Jessy Wu left to build a company VC wouldn't touch.
We discuss cognitive bias dressed as intuition, & why democratizing VC is key to innovation.
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Is Australian venture capital missing something?
After 4 years as a partner, Jessy Wu left to build a company VC wouldn't touch.
We discuss cognitive bias dressed as intuition, & why democratizing VC is key to innovation.
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A minister went to a polling booth to talk about the schools & hospitals he'd got built.
Voters wanted to talk about something else: the Service NSW app.
This is how one Australian state built a digital government.
✍️ Victor Dominello
Voters wanted to talk about something else: the Service NSW app.
This is how one Australian state built a digital government.
✍️ Victor Dominello
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A minister went to a polling booth to talk about the schools & hospitals he'd got built.
Voters wanted to talk about something else: the Service NSW app.
This is how one Australian state built a digital government.
✍️ Victor Dominello
Voters wanted to talk about something else: the Service NSW app.
This is how one Australian state built a digital government.
✍️ Victor Dominello
🚨Issue 02 | Inflection Points | OUT NOW🚨
- Victor Dominello
- Brendon Sheppard
- Jessy Wu
- Jade Lin
- Victor Dominello
- Brendon Sheppard
- Jessy Wu
- Jade Lin
October 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🚨Issue 02 | Inflection Points | OUT NOW🚨
- Victor Dominello
- Brendon Sheppard
- Jessy Wu
- Jade Lin
- Victor Dominello
- Brendon Sheppard
- Jessy Wu
- Jade Lin
🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️
Australia is living through the slowest productivity growth in 60 years. How do we fix it?
Andrew Leigh (Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury) on both personal and national productivity.
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Australia is living through the slowest productivity growth in 60 years. How do we fix it?
Andrew Leigh (Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury) on both personal and national productivity.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Australia is living through the slowest productivity growth in 60 years. How do we fix it?
Andrew Leigh (Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury) on both personal and national productivity.
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Australia is living through the slowest productivity growth in 60 years. How do we fix it?
Andrew Leigh (Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury) on both personal and national productivity.
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How do we move the needle on reform? Hear from Brendan Coates, Michael Brennan and Katie Roberts-Hull on how policy reform happens!
Listen to the podcast below 👇
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How do we move the needle on reform? Hear from Brendan Coates, Michael Brennan and Katie Roberts-Hull on how policy reform happens!
Listen to the podcast below 👇
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August 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️
How do we move the needle on reform? Hear from Brendan Coates, Michael Brennan and Katie Roberts-Hull on how policy reform happens!
Listen to the podcast below 👇
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How do we move the needle on reform? Hear from Brendan Coates, Michael Brennan and Katie Roberts-Hull on how policy reform happens!
Listen to the podcast below 👇
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Wow, what a launch! A massive thank you to everyone who celebrated our launch with us last week.
The energy was incredible, and we hope you're feeling as fired up as we are to make real reform happen! This is just the beginning.
The energy was incredible, and we hope you're feeling as fired up as we are to make real reform happen! This is just the beginning.
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Wow, what a launch! A massive thank you to everyone who celebrated our launch with us last week.
The energy was incredible, and we hope you're feeling as fired up as we are to make real reform happen! This is just the beginning.
The energy was incredible, and we hope you're feeling as fired up as we are to make real reform happen! This is just the beginning.
In 1967, a planning permit for a 3-storey apartment building only took 12 pages.
In 2025 the same planning permit would run hundreds of pages long.
How the machinery of action has rusted — and why we must fix it.
In 2025 the same planning permit would run hundreds of pages long.
How the machinery of action has rusted — and why we must fix it.
July 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
In 1967, a planning permit for a 3-storey apartment building only took 12 pages.
In 2025 the same planning permit would run hundreds of pages long.
How the machinery of action has rusted — and why we must fix it.
In 2025 the same planning permit would run hundreds of pages long.
How the machinery of action has rusted — and why we must fix it.
Children who move to better neighbourhoods are more likely to go to university, earn more, and stay out of poverty.
So why do urban planning policies in wealthy areas resist new families?
So why do urban planning policies in wealthy areas resist new families?
July 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Children who move to better neighbourhoods are more likely to go to university, earn more, and stay out of poverty.
So why do urban planning policies in wealthy areas resist new families?
So why do urban planning policies in wealthy areas resist new families?
In 2022, no one thought, talked or uttered the words “non-compete clauses”.
In 2025, non-compete clauses were front and centre at the Federal Budget.
Here’s how it happened.
In 2025, non-compete clauses were front and centre at the Federal Budget.
Here’s how it happened.
July 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In 2022, no one thought, talked or uttered the words “non-compete clauses”.
In 2025, non-compete clauses were front and centre at the Federal Budget.
Here’s how it happened.
In 2025, non-compete clauses were front and centre at the Federal Budget.
Here’s how it happened.
An op-ed version of one of our essays is an Editor’s Pick in the AFR today!
We look forward to more of this: providing long form and short form essays that bring important ideas and stories to the national conversation.
We look forward to more of this: providing long form and short form essays that bring important ideas and stories to the national conversation.
July 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
An op-ed version of one of our essays is an Editor’s Pick in the AFR today!
We look forward to more of this: providing long form and short form essays that bring important ideas and stories to the national conversation.
We look forward to more of this: providing long form and short form essays that bring important ideas and stories to the national conversation.
🚨We’re launching the FIRST issue of Inflection Points 🚨
- Michael Brennan & Dan Andrews
- Katie Roberts-Hull
- Jonathan O’Brien
- Andrew Leigh
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- Michael Brennan & Dan Andrews
- Katie Roberts-Hull
- Jonathan O’Brien
- Andrew Leigh
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July 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🚨We’re launching the FIRST issue of Inflection Points 🚨
- Michael Brennan & Dan Andrews
- Katie Roberts-Hull
- Jonathan O’Brien
- Andrew Leigh
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- Michael Brennan & Dan Andrews
- Katie Roberts-Hull
- Jonathan O’Brien
- Andrew Leigh
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Our editorial priorities:
1️⃣ Increasing state capacity.
2️⃣ Building infrastructure and housing.
3️⃣ Supporting productivity growth.
4️⃣ Enabling human flourishing.
1️⃣ Increasing state capacity.
2️⃣ Building infrastructure and housing.
3️⃣ Supporting productivity growth.
4️⃣ Enabling human flourishing.
July 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Our editorial priorities:
1️⃣ Increasing state capacity.
2️⃣ Building infrastructure and housing.
3️⃣ Supporting productivity growth.
4️⃣ Enabling human flourishing.
1️⃣ Increasing state capacity.
2️⃣ Building infrastructure and housing.
3️⃣ Supporting productivity growth.
4️⃣ Enabling human flourishing.
Inflection Points aims to change that.
We’re here to champion growth, institutional clarity, and actionable ideas, not just critique.
Our core principles:
• We believe in abundance.
• We are committed to an Australia for all
• We value depth and long-term thinking
We’re here to champion growth, institutional clarity, and actionable ideas, not just critique.
Our core principles:
• We believe in abundance.
• We are committed to an Australia for all
• We value depth and long-term thinking
July 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Inflection Points aims to change that.
We’re here to champion growth, institutional clarity, and actionable ideas, not just critique.
Our core principles:
• We believe in abundance.
• We are committed to an Australia for all
• We value depth and long-term thinking
We’re here to champion growth, institutional clarity, and actionable ideas, not just critique.
Our core principles:
• We believe in abundance.
• We are committed to an Australia for all
• We value depth and long-term thinking
Like mismatched rail gauges, our policy landscape today is riddled with brakes:
Housing that’s unaffordable.
Infrastructure that’s forever delayed.
Productivity that’s flatlining.
Housing that’s unaffordable.
Infrastructure that’s forever delayed.
Productivity that’s flatlining.
July 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Like mismatched rail gauges, our policy landscape today is riddled with brakes:
Housing that’s unaffordable.
Infrastructure that’s forever delayed.
Productivity that’s flatlining.
Housing that’s unaffordable.
Infrastructure that’s forever delayed.
Productivity that’s flatlining.
It worked.
Today, you can ride a train from Brisbane to Perth without changing gauge once.
But this wasn’t inevitable.
It was the result of vision, technical rigor, and institutional will.
That’s the spirit we want to revive.
Today, you can ride a train from Brisbane to Perth without changing gauge once.
But this wasn’t inevitable.
It was the result of vision, technical rigor, and institutional will.
That’s the spirit we want to revive.
July 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It worked.
Today, you can ride a train from Brisbane to Perth without changing gauge once.
But this wasn’t inevitable.
It was the result of vision, technical rigor, and institutional will.
That’s the spirit we want to revive.
Today, you can ride a train from Brisbane to Perth without changing gauge once.
But this wasn’t inevitable.
It was the result of vision, technical rigor, and institutional will.
That’s the spirit we want to revive.
Clapp knew our fragmented rail wasn’t just inefficient, it was a risk to the nation.
During WWII, it became a national liability delaying mission-critical cargo.
So Clapp wrote a report proposing 6,000+ miles of standardised rail, with bold clarity, ambition and pragmatism.
During WWII, it became a national liability delaying mission-critical cargo.
So Clapp wrote a report proposing 6,000+ miles of standardised rail, with bold clarity, ambition and pragmatism.
July 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Clapp knew our fragmented rail wasn’t just inefficient, it was a risk to the nation.
During WWII, it became a national liability delaying mission-critical cargo.
So Clapp wrote a report proposing 6,000+ miles of standardised rail, with bold clarity, ambition and pragmatism.
During WWII, it became a national liability delaying mission-critical cargo.
So Clapp wrote a report proposing 6,000+ miles of standardised rail, with bold clarity, ambition and pragmatism.
For decades, Australia tolerated this dysfunction.
Other nations had solved it.
We kept debating it.
Then came Harold Clapp.
He saw how U.S. railways worked and returned home determined to lift Australia to global standards.
Other nations had solved it.
We kept debating it.
Then came Harold Clapp.
He saw how U.S. railways worked and returned home determined to lift Australia to global standards.
July 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
For decades, Australia tolerated this dysfunction.
Other nations had solved it.
We kept debating it.
Then came Harold Clapp.
He saw how U.S. railways worked and returned home determined to lift Australia to global standards.
Other nations had solved it.
We kept debating it.
Then came Harold Clapp.
He saw how U.S. railways worked and returned home determined to lift Australia to global standards.
In the 1800s, each Aussie colony chose a different rail gauge.
That meant trains literally had to stop at borders to switch tracks.
It crippled commerce, wasted time, and hampered Australia’s growth.
Mark Twain even mocked us for it.
That meant trains literally had to stop at borders to switch tracks.
It crippled commerce, wasted time, and hampered Australia’s growth.
Mark Twain even mocked us for it.
July 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In the 1800s, each Aussie colony chose a different rail gauge.
That meant trains literally had to stop at borders to switch tracks.
It crippled commerce, wasted time, and hampered Australia’s growth.
Mark Twain even mocked us for it.
That meant trains literally had to stop at borders to switch tracks.
It crippled commerce, wasted time, and hampered Australia’s growth.
Mark Twain even mocked us for it.
Before we look forward, we looked back to a time when one man helped reshape Australia’s future by fixing something seemingly simple.
Train tracks.
Let us introduce you to: Sir Harold Clapp
Train tracks.
Let us introduce you to: Sir Harold Clapp
July 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Before we look forward, we looked back to a time when one man helped reshape Australia’s future by fixing something seemingly simple.
Train tracks.
Let us introduce you to: Sir Harold Clapp
Train tracks.
Let us introduce you to: Sir Harold Clapp