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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 01/06/2026

The inaugural Inflection Points Writing Prize closes in one month (11:59pm, 30/06/26). We are looking for long-form, solutions-focused writing across state capacity, infrastructure and housing, productivity growth, and human flourishing. See our site for details.

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 26/03/2026

If you’d like feedback before committing to writing a full prize submission, today is the last day to submit your pitch! Pitch submission closes at 11:59 on 27/3/2026. See our site for more details, criteria, and to submit your pitch.

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 17/03/2026

Pitch submission for the Inflection Points Writing Prize closes in ten days! We understand beginning a long-form project with no guarantee you are on track can be daunting, so we are offering feedback to writers who want to pitch a piece in advance. See our site for details.

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 23/02/2026

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

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 15/02/2026

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. inflectionpoints.work/prize.

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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.

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 21/01/2026

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 But the rules governing where those dollars can go are outdated and often misaligned with impact.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? 👇

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 08/01/2026

🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ 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. [Link in next tweet]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 14/12/2025

🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ 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. [Link in next tweet]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 01/12/2025

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

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 17/11/2025

Travis Jordan argues that Australia’s next democratic flourishing depends on rebuilding participation through political parties, not bypassing them. [Link to article in next post]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 15/11/2025

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 → [Link in next post]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 13/11/2025

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. [Link in next tweet]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 12/11/2025

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. [Link in next post]

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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.

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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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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 09/11/2025

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

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 02/11/2025

🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ 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. [Link in next tweet]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 23/10/2025

🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ Is Australian venture capital missing something? After 4 years as a partner, Jessy Wu left to build a company VC wouldn't touch. We discuss cognitive bias dressed as intuition, & why democratizing VC is key to innovation. [Link in next tweet]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 07/10/2025

A minister went to a polling booth to talk about the schools & hospitals he'd got built. Voters wanted to talk about something else: the Service NSW app. This is how one Australian state built a digital government. ✍️ Victor Dominello

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 05/10/2025

🚨Issue 02 | Inflection Points | OUT NOW🚨 - Victor Dominello - Brendon Sheppard - Jessy Wu - Jade Lin

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 01/10/2025

🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ Australia is living through the slowest productivity growth in 60 years. How do we fix it? Andrew Leigh (Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury) on both personal and national productivity. [Link in next tweet]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 24/08/2025

🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ How do we move the needle on reform? Hear from Brendan Coates, Michael Brennan and Katie Roberts-Hull on how policy reform happens! Listen to the podcast below 👇 [Link in next tweet]

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 06/08/2025

Wow, what a launch! A massive thank you to everyone who celebrated our launch with us last week. The energy was incredible, and we hope you're feeling as fired up as we are to make real reform happen! This is just the beginning.

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 22/07/2025

🎟️ SELLING OUT FAST🎟️ Come to our launch event — "Moving the Needle: How Reform Gets Done in Australia" It's time to learn from our successes past and present, and make progress a reality for our nation once again. Get your ticket now 👇

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Moving the Needle: How Reform Gets Done in Australia

Australian reformers are plagued by a culture of hesitance. It's time to learn from our successes and make progress a reality for our nation once again

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 16/07/2025

In 1967, a planning permit for a 3-storey apartment building only took 12 pages. In 2025 the same planning permit would run hundreds of pages long. How the machinery of action has rusted — and why we must fix it.

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 15/07/2025

Children who move to better neighbourhoods are more likely to go to university, earn more, and stay out of poverty. So why do urban planning policies in wealthy areas resist new families?

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 15/07/2025

In 2022, no one thought, talked or uttered the words “non-compete clauses”. In 2025, non-compete clauses were front and centre at the Federal Budget. Here’s how it happened.

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 14/07/2025

An op-ed version of one of our essays is an Editor’s Pick in the AFR today! We look forward to more of this: providing long form and short form essays that bring important ideas and stories to the national conversation.

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 13/07/2025

🚨We’re launching the FIRST issue of Inflection Points 🚨 - Michael Brennan & Dan Andrews - Katie Roberts-Hull - Jonathan O’Brien - Andrew Leigh 🧵

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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 12/07/2025

Talking about reform is our national ritual: white papers, inquiries, op-eds, post-election promises. But too often, these calls create more process than progress. So we’re launching Inflection Points—a new platform for longform policy writing that aims to cut through.

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