How should we design multi-choice tests to best capture student knowledge and ability? I have no idea - which is why I had a yarn with @pelinakyol.bsky.social about recent work she has undertaken on this topic.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2KXvuD6...

Substack: tvhe.substack.com/p/pelin-akyo...

With an election coming up tax reform as a concept has reappeared on the agenda. I had the pleasure of yarning with @shamilton.bsky.social on such reform - along with some hot takes about communicating tax policy and the size of the public service.

tvhe.substack.com/p/chatting-a...

Five years ago today both Australian's and New Zealander's were firmly in lockdown. What was the policy discussion like at the time? I decide to have a trip down memory lane to find out.

tvhe.substack.com/p/memories-o...

Excited about the 2025 Budget? Lachlan Vass and I are. Hear us get progressively more hype here: tvhe.substack.com/p/warming-up...

Should we retaliate to tariffs with a Digital Services tax? Probably not but let's see if we can make the argument: tvhe.substack.com/p/should-aus...

The challenge of AI is not about the limits of human economic potential, but the limits of human empathy - something that each of us has control over.

tvhe.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

Remembering the lead up to the declaration of the COVID pandemic in New Zealand - and why this was the one country without a run on toilet paper: tvhe.substack.com/p/the-econom...