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Problem with PM’s golf club grant is Canberra has too much money

Problem with PM’s golf club grant is Canberra has too much money

Too much easy money at the federal level leads to wasteful spending. Too little money at the state level leads to excessive reliance on inefficient...

06.11.2026 20

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

No, Mark Barnaba. Merger of WA universities is a bad idea

This proposal seems focused on making the product cheaper to produce rather than on improving educational quality.

14.10.2026 30

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Labor’s digital duty of care privatises political censorship

Political elites have much to fear from the ‘little-people’ talking among themselves. It is perfectly understandable that the government would...

10.09.2026 90

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Don’t blame Zuckerberg. Antisemitism runs deeper than Facebook

If the royal commission treats antisemitism as a content moderation problem, it will fail to overcome the much deeper social failure antisemitism...

13.07.2026 40

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Unis claim they teach critical thinking. AI is calling their bluff

Why should students incur huge debts to undertake a leisurely three-year (or more) degree when a machine can be prompted?

24.06.2026 40

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Why artificial intelligence won’t eliminate the value of consulting

Consulting is not about to disappear, and the demand for judgment under uncertainty will not change. What is changing is how that judgment will be...

25.04.2026 30

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Australia must choose the right metric to tax the digital economy

The three theories of value – activity, intellectual property, infrastructure – that the government could use to determine taxation must be...

26.03.2026 30

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Economics explains Donald Trump’s bid for Greenland

The United States has realised that leasing military access from Denmark is an incomplete contract fraught with intolerable transaction costs.

11.01.2026 50

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Why the productivity payoff from AI at work is so poor

The technology is ready. The problem is our workplace relations framework requires prior permission to use artificial intelligence.

20.11.2025 30

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Universities are not businesses and can’t be run like one

When non-profit organisations are managed as if they were for-profit firms, problems emerge. Economists have long warned of this.

14.09.2025 40

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Why AI is an industrial relations challenge for business

Australia will miss the productivity gains from artificial intelligence unless we fix the laws that stop firms from reorganising how work gets done.

18.08.2025 30

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson