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Inflection Points is the new home of high-quality, longform Australian policy writing.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 9:01 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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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
Target bans, not just burdens.

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
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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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
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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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
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Read Jessy Wu's piece, Diversifying Australian Risk Capital, on Inflection Points:

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October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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