Dr Richard Denniss
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
Executive Director at The Australia Institute
Economist, Author of books and writer of columns often for Saturday Paper, The Monthly & The New Daily (previously The Guardian, Australian Financial Review)
Economist, Author of books and writer of columns often for Saturday Paper, The Monthly & The New Daily (previously The Guardian, Australian Financial Review)
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Aiming Higher: Universities and the future of Australian democracy (Vantage Point Issue 3) - Store - The Australia Institute
The time has come for a reckoning in the Australian higher education.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
And if you’d like to buy George’s latest essay, published by The Australia Institute, you can pre order here australiainstitute.org.au/store/aiming...
Nope. You are making things up. Fuel excise goes into consolidated revenue and theres absolutely no link between road spending and fuel tax revenues. None. Nada. Your feelings don’t count, but facts matter.
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Nope. You are making things up. Fuel excise goes into consolidated revenue and theres absolutely no link between road spending and fuel tax revenues. None. Nada. Your feelings don’t count, but facts matter.
Hi Peter, sorry you’ve missed major parts of MMT but while i agree theres no short term tax constraint on government spending in a fully employed economy the only way to have a big increase in the size of the public sector is to shrink the private sector, & tax is by far the easiest way to do that
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Hi Peter, sorry you’ve missed major parts of MMT but while i agree theres no short term tax constraint on government spending in a fully employed economy the only way to have a big increase in the size of the public sector is to shrink the private sector, & tax is by far the easiest way to do that
You should take a look at the OECD, IMF and World Bank definitions of a subsidy. Facts matter :)
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
You should take a look at the OECD, IMF and World Bank definitions of a subsidy. Facts matter :)