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Category: Economic Policy

Broad category of Economics and Trends affecting Victoria and Australia

Acceleration

Posted in Industry, Innovation
Bill

The CSIRO on exponential change and the challenge of innovation at scale. Automation Augmented Reality Bio-printing Artificial Intelligence Nanotechnology Quantum Computing

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In the land of the one-armed Robot…

Posted in Automation, Industry
Bill

Perth-based Fastbrick Robotics Ltd [ ASX: FBR] today announced their highly innovative Hadrian X robot bricklayer is on target for a world-first commercial release to market this year. The Perth company…

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Passport

The Mighty Few

Posted in Industry, Information and Communication Technology
Bill

There’s skill and there’s skill… The complex interplay between local labour markets, skills, capital growth and immigration policies within developed countries is writ-large in national-level events within both the USA…

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Victorian Population 2016

Boom! Victorian Growth

Posted in Demography, Regional Policy
Bill

A common theme, but PLACE really does matter! The ABS Regional Populations data released last week shows a varied story of population growth and decline. The Big Picture All states…

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99 Percent

8 versus 3.6 Billion

Posted in Economic Policy, Social Progress
Bill

New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. That equates to 8 men versus 3600,000,000 people. It is four years…

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Urban Planning… not

Posted in Demography, Governance, Industry
Bill

Topical consideration from the @LRB given the recent announcement of Badgerys Creek as the confirmed site for a Western Sydney Airport. Links: London Review of Books The Horrors of Heathrow – A…

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Panorama of Melbourne

Suburban Nations

Posted in Demography, Geography, Regional Policy
Bill

The ever growing policy challenges of the “rural/urban” divide. Consider a “suburban nation”. An excellent post from Wendell Cox in NewGeography Professors David L. A. Gordon of Queens University (Canada)…

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AirBnB - Melbourne

D I Sr U P Tio N

Posted in Business, Future of Work, Innovation
Bill

What do you do if TWELVE Thousand [12,000] competitors appear overnight? The terms “structural adjustment”, the “sharing economy” and “disruptive innovation” in industries are simply the newest additions to the…

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Crossed Lines

Crossed Lines

Posted in Demography, Economic Policy, Social Progress
Bill

A looming [and present] challenge for governments in all jurisdictions. 2017 is a genuine tipping-point. Can policy respond? How do we provide Education services equal to [let alone] surpassing previous…

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