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Danielle Wood: The Red Tape Impulse

The urge to regulate every risk away has tied our economy up in red tape knots. Better policy can tip the scales back.

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Issue 04: Renewing Outdated Systems (ft. Allegra Spender, Tim Nelson & more)

Our fourth edition, with essays from Allegra Spender and the NEM Review Panel, focuses on renewing outdated systems in support of a more prosperous…

Mar 11 • Inflection Points

Issue 03: Removing the barriers to Australian prosperity

Our third edition focuses on removing the bottlenecks to prosperity, with a focus on supply-side reforms and democratic engagement.

Nov 9, 2025 • Inflection Points

Issue 02: Technology & Innovation

Our second edition focuses on how innovation & technology can drive a better future, with pieces by Victor Dominello, Jessy Wu, Jade Lin & Brandon…

Oct 5, 2025 • Inflection Points, Jonathan O’Brien, and Manning Clifford

Issue 01: Welcome to Inflection Points

Inflection Points is the home of long-form policy writing for a bigger, better Australia. Today we launch Issue 01, free for all to read.

Jul 13, 2025 • Inflection Points

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Alain Bertaud: Australia’s world-leading urban design

How Australian cities convinced Alain Bertaud that urban design should have featured in his magnum opus.

May 7 • Jonathan O’Brien

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Matthew Maltman: Better stories about supply

Listen now | Policymakers often suffer from a cognitive blind spot: we intuitively think like consumers rather than producers.

Jan 8 • Inflection Points

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Brendan Coates: Ending the bans on housing

Australia’s housing stock is growing slower than its adult population; that's led to Sydney's median prices becoming 10x its median income.

Dec 18, 2025 • Inflection Points

41:05

Brandon Sheppard: Building here, selling overseas

Every successful Australian tech company follows roughly the same playbook: build the product here, test it in our market, then export it overseas.

Nov 1, 2025 • Inflection Points

Issue 5

Danielle Wood: The Red Tape Impulse

The urge to regulate every risk away has tied our economy up in red tape knots. Better policy can tip the scales back.

Jun 8 • Inflection Points

Against 'Affordable' Housing

It’s not the same as social housing, and it doesn’t help those most in need. Australia is spending big on ‘affordable’ housing—but we shouldn’t.

May 16 • Inflection Points

Issue 3

Planning is the Bottleneck to New Housing

Reforming states’ sclerotic land use planning systems is the key to building more housing. Both state and federal governments must do their part.

Dec 14, 2025 • Inflection Points

Best practice for supply-side reform

To maximise the impact of supply-side policy, reform should focus on bans over burdens, and markets over individual firms.

Dec 3, 2025 • Inflection Points

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Issue 2

Technology Can Address Care Worker Shortages

Australia’s care sector is not set up to adopt new technologies that would improve its efficiency. It should be.

Feb 4 • Inflection Points and Jade Lin

Industrial Policy for Tech Workers

Australia has the opportunity to become the best place in the world to build the companies of the future.

Nov 2, 2025 • Inflection Points

Diversifying Australian Risk Capital

Australian entrepreneurship isn’t hamstrung by the quantity of venture capital but by the kinds of risk capital available.

Oct 27, 2025 • Inflection Points and Jessy Wu

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Inflection Points

Long-form writing for a bigger, better Australia.

Issue 1

The Abundance Agenda for Australia

Across housing, infrastructure, energy and research, Australia faces a common challenge: not a shortage of ambition, but a shortage of delivery.

Aug 5, 2025

How Australia Banned Non-Competes

There are many ingredients to reform. The story of banning non-competes offers lessons for future efforts.

Aug 3, 2025

The Price Children Pay for Exclusive Suburbs

Diverse schools are a key tool for economic mobility. But current policy is making schools less, not more, diverse.

Jul 29, 2025 • Inflection Points

The Problem with Urban Planning

A professional monopoly is gatekeeping our growth. We need a new paradigm: planning at the speed of cities.

Jul 28, 2025 • Inflection Points and Jonathan O’Brien

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