Victoria up by 20. Your move, @ChrisMinnsMP.

RT @StuartBDonovan: 🚨 urban economics research siren 🚨 In Auckland, I find the population of people aged 20-34 years grew most strongly in…

RT @realBurhanAzeem: I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single…

@RumblevsFrenzy @PuppyMaximum @TomisCrowley @BrendanCoates @peter_tulip 1/ it isn't 2/ more people = more aggregate supply = fewer skills shortages and greater productivity than counterfactual 3/ Why not! We're a big country, and we should get bigger.

@RumblevsFrenzy @PuppyMaximum @TomisCrowley @BrendanCoates @peter_tulip 1/ that isn't true 2/ that isn't an issue 3/ because the population is ageing and people are living longer, meaning healthcare needs are becoming more acute

RT @gbrl_dick: using a microsoft computer involves extended psychic warfare between the user and 1000s of dark patterns designed in hell. i…

@TaxpayersParty @BrendanCoates @peter_tulip Even if we halted immigration, changing household compositions would still require us to build a lot more, and in order to maximise the productivity and wealth benefits of agglomeration for an ageing population, we would still need to build more housing more densely.

@PuppyMaximum @TomisCrowley @BrendanCoates @peter_tulip We could, but the opportunity cost would be great, and the population in aggregate would be poorer for it.

@PuppyMaximum @TomisCrowley @BrendanCoates @peter_tulip Migrants aren’t just part of the demand-side equation; they also also provide a supply of human capital and labour. Without migrants, we would have a health skills shortage and a significantly aged population. What is the nativist response to that?

@toddcefai @BrendanCoates @peter_tulip I think you're onto something. The problem is that planning hasn't updated its epistemological model to even the level of Hayek (1945). An insular and incurious profession is at the core of this.

@PuppyMaximum @TomisCrowley @BrendanCoates @peter_tulip Free Palestine in your bio but anti-immigration posting is fascinating. How do you square empathy for people beyond our borders with a desire to restrict them from seeking a better life in Australia?

@__picaro8 It sounds like we agree!

@__picaro8 Given that we have anti-corruption rules, and that the most high-profile donation scandals in this country have resulted in real consequences—again, isn't the easiest solution to just make it really easy to build?

@Jonathan_Nolan_ So often lit reviews are pieced together by summer interns, which really was just proto-ChatGPT before it was cool, inaccuracies and all

@__picaro8 Even if you believe this is true, which it isn’t, don’t you think that a system so highly discretionary that bribery becomes a viable strategy is one that should be reformed? Why not liberalise planning and remove any incentive for bribery?

RT @mnolangray: What a brain dead piece. Yeah, liberty thrives in an environment where the government lets you do exactly one thing with yo…

@peter_tulip There has to skin in the game somewhere.

@MarionLeigh2 Councillors can call in any development application they want. So it’s not a misrepresentation.

@Mercfan3Mercfan Chad

RT @StuartBDonovan: bad planning processes have tangible negative impacts on people's lives. Here, some poor person who just wants to buil…