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Inflection Points is the new home of high-quality, longform Australian policy writing.
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Rebuilding Australian Political Parties | Inflection Points
Active democratic participation is the key to Australia’s next great flourishing. We should encourage it explicitly.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Trust in politics is falling as parties become closed, insider-controlled cartels.
This is how we can rebuild our political parties with democratic participation.
✍️ @grugstan.bsky.social
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This is how we can rebuild our political parties with democratic participation.
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Rebuilding Australian Political Parties | Inflection Points
Active democratic participation is the key to Australia’s next great flourishing. We should encourage that form of participation.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Trust in politics is falling as parties become closed, insider-controlled cartels.
This is how we can rebuild our political parties with democratic participation.
✍️ @grugstan.bsky.social
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This is how we can rebuild our political parties with democratic participation.
✍️ @grugstan.bsky.social
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Target bans, not just burdens.
How a common bias may be the biggest roadblock for effective microeconomic reform.
✍️ Matthew Maltman
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How a common bias may be the biggest roadblock for effective microeconomic reform.
✍️ Matthew Maltman
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Best practice for supply-side reformers | Inflection Points
To maximise the impact of supply-side policy, reform should focus on bans over burdens, and markets over individual firms.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Target bans, not just burdens.
How a common bias may be the biggest roadblock for effective microeconomic reform.
✍️ Matthew Maltman
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How a common bias may be the biggest roadblock for effective microeconomic reform.
✍️ Matthew Maltman
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We could build 67,000 extra homes a year & see rents fall 12% in a decade.
How? By fixing our land use planning systems.
✍️Brendan Coates
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How? By fixing our land use planning systems.
✍️Brendan Coates
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Planning is the bottleneck to new housing | Inflection Points
Reforming states’ sclerotic land use planning systems is the key to building more housing. Both state and federal governments must do their part.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We could build 67,000 extra homes a year & see rents fall 12% in a decade.
How? By fixing our land use planning systems.
✍️Brendan Coates
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How? By fixing our land use planning systems.
✍️Brendan Coates
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The rules for innovation in Australia are paywalled & crumbling.
Mandatory standards for EV charging or batteries cost hundreds to access. This is slowing the net-zero transition and killing innovation.
✍️ Flavio Menezes
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Mandatory standards for EV charging or batteries cost hundreds to access. This is slowing the net-zero transition and killing innovation.
✍️ Flavio Menezes
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A Higher Standard for Standards | Inflection Points
Standards are the invisible architecture of technological progress. In Australia, that architecture is paywalled and crumbling—and it's making it harder to build.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The rules for innovation in Australia are paywalled & crumbling.
Mandatory standards for EV charging or batteries cost hundreds to access. This is slowing the net-zero transition and killing innovation.
✍️ Flavio Menezes
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Mandatory standards for EV charging or batteries cost hundreds to access. This is slowing the net-zero transition and killing innovation.
✍️ Flavio Menezes
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November 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The care sector is booming, but its sluggish productivity is a silent growing danger.
At the core of this challenge is how the sector, and its workers, adopt new technologies.
Here’s how we can build a more productive and caring future.
✍️ Jade Lin
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At the core of this challenge is how the sector, and its workers, adopt new technologies.
Here’s how we can build a more productive and caring future.
✍️ Jade Lin
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Technology Can Address Care Worker Shortages | Inflection Points
Australia’s care sector is not set up to adopt new technologies. It should be.
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October 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The care sector is booming, but its sluggish productivity is a silent growing danger.
At the core of this challenge is how the sector, and its workers, adopt new technologies.
Here’s how we can build a more productive and caring future.
✍️ Jade Lin
inflectionpoints.work/articles/tec...
At the core of this challenge is how the sector, and its workers, adopt new technologies.
Here’s how we can build a more productive and caring future.
✍️ Jade Lin
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Many claim Australia needs a greater quantity of Venture Capital.
But tomorrow’s businesses need forms of risk capital we don’t currently provide.
Here’s the story of what went wrong and how we fix it.
✍️ Jessy Wu
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But tomorrow’s businesses need forms of risk capital we don’t currently provide.
Here’s the story of what went wrong and how we fix it.
✍️ Jessy Wu
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Diversifying Australian Risk Capital | Inflection Points
Three firms dominate Australian venture capital. Tomorrow’s businesses need more diverse funding.
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October 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Many claim Australia needs a greater quantity of Venture Capital.
But tomorrow’s businesses need forms of risk capital we don’t currently provide.
Here’s the story of what went wrong and how we fix it.
✍️ Jessy Wu
inflectionpoints.work/articles/div...
But tomorrow’s businesses need forms of risk capital we don’t currently provide.
Here’s the story of what went wrong and how we fix it.
✍️ Jessy Wu
inflectionpoints.work/articles/div...
Australia’s tech ecosystem is the second-fastest-growing in the world.
Yet over the past 20 years, 11,000 new businesses left Australia.
Government policies may be to blame.
✍️ Brendon Sheppard
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Yet over the past 20 years, 11,000 new businesses left Australia.
Government policies may be to blame.
✍️ Brendon Sheppard
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Industrial Policy for Tech Workers | Inflection Points
America risks brain drain. Australia has the opportunity to capitalise.
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October 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Australia’s tech ecosystem is the second-fastest-growing in the world.
Yet over the past 20 years, 11,000 new businesses left Australia.
Government policies may be to blame.
✍️ Brendon Sheppard
inflectionpoints.work/articles/ind...
Yet over the past 20 years, 11,000 new businesses left Australia.
Government policies may be to blame.
✍️ Brendon Sheppard
inflectionpoints.work/articles/ind...
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
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Voters wanted to talk about something else: the Service NSW app.
This is how one Australian state built a digital government.
✍️ Victor Dominello
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How one Australian State Built a Digital Government | Inflection Points
The New South Wales government leads the nation in service delivery. What sets them apart?
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October 5, 2025 at 8:15 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
inflectionpoints.work/articles/how...
Voters wanted to talk about something else: the Service NSW app.
This is how one Australian state built a digital government.
✍️ Victor Dominello
inflectionpoints.work/articles/how...