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Liberal Foundations | Inflection Points The party of the forgotten people has itself been forgotten in the suburbs it once called home. This structural failure demands a structural response.

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Yesterday, we published Keith Wolahan’s sensational essay, Liberal Foundations—and then we made the news.

The Inflection Points Writing Prize | Inflection Points The inaugural $5,000 Inflection Points Writing Prize will be awarded to the best new piece of Australian writing concerned with the problems our nation faces, and the solutions within our grasp.

We are delighted to announce the inaugural Inflection Points Writing Prize, a $5000 prize for the best new piece of writing about past or present Australian problems and their solutions in state capacity, infrastructure, housing, productivity, or human flourishing.

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Australia gives billions of dollars to charity each year. But the rules governing where those dollars can go are outdated and often misaligned with impact.

Is the Deductible Gift Recipient system the biggest handbrake on Aussie charity? 👇

Matthew Maltman: Better stories about supply - The Inflection Points Podcast Policymakers often suffer from a cognitive blind spot: we intuitively think like consumers rather than producers. When it comes to housing, this leads governments to reach for demand-side levers—like…

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We often reach for demand-side fixes (like grants) because we have a cognitive blind spot for production.

Matt Maltman from the e61 Institute joins us to outline a more optimistic, abundance-based vision for Australia.

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Australia’s housing stock is growing slower than its adult population. The result? Sydney median prices are 10x median income.

Brendan Coates explains why, to make housing more affordable, we must make it legal to build more homes.

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See Grattan Institute's full 2025 Wonks' List here →

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We're thrilled to see Kate Roberts-Hull's essay on Grattan Institute's 2025 Wonks' List!

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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Travis Jordan argues that Australia’s next democratic flourishing depends on rebuilding participation through political parties, not bypassing them.

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Supply has a PR problem. When asked to think about the economy, most of us think of the demand-side. But the most powerful levers for change are often on the supply-side.

Matt Maltman shows why fixing that matters →

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Standards are the invisible architecture of technological progress. In Australia, that architecture is paywalled and crumbling—and it's making it harder to build.

Flavio Menezes argues that the current model needs a fixed.

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Brendan Coates shows how sclerotic land-use systems have made well-located homes artificially scarce, pushing prices and rents to historic highs and hollowing out inner-city opportunities for the young.

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I’m honoured to be featured alongside some of Australia’s biggest names in wonkdom in the summer issue of Inflection Points.

My paper is the culmination of 4 years work on declining civic participation — and why other researchers into the phenomenon have a blind spot for political parties.

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.

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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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.

Target bans, not just burdens.

How a common bias may be the biggest roadblock for effective microeconomic reform.

✍️ Matthew Maltman

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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.

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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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.

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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🚨Issue 03 | Inflection Points | OUT NOW🚨
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- Brendan Coates
- Matthew Maltman
- Travis Jordan

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There’s a playbook that nearly every successful Australian tech company has used to win globally: Build here, test here, export everywhere.

We discuss the Aussie tech landscape with Brandon Sheppard, COO of Instant.

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