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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.

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 But the rules governing where those dollars can go are outdated and often misaligned with impact.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

Our editorial priorities: 1️⃣ Increasing state capacity. 2️⃣ Building infrastructure and housing. 3️⃣ Supporting productivity growth. 4️⃣ Enabling human flourishing.

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

Inflection Points aims to change that. We’re here to champion growth, institutional clarity, and actionable ideas, not just critique. Our core principles: • We believe in abundance. • We are committed to an Australia for all • We value depth and long-term thinking

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

Like mismatched rail gauges, our policy landscape today is riddled with brakes: Housing that’s unaffordable. Infrastructure that’s forever delayed. Productivity that’s flatlining.

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

It worked. Today, you can ride a train from Brisbane to Perth without changing gauge once. But this wasn’t inevitable. It was the result of vision, technical rigor, and institutional will. That’s the spirit we want to revive.

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

Clapp knew our fragmented rail wasn’t just inefficient, it was a risk to the nation. During WWII, it became a national liability delaying mission-critical cargo. So Clapp wrote a report proposing 6,000+ miles of standardised rail, with bold clarity, ambition and pragmatism.

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

For decades, Australia tolerated this dysfunction. Other nations had solved it. We kept debating it. Then came Harold Clapp. He saw how U.S. railways worked and returned home determined to lift Australia to global standards.

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

In the 1800s, each Aussie colony chose a different rail gauge. That meant trains literally had to stop at borders to switch tracks. It crippled commerce, wasted time, and hampered Australia’s growth. Mark Twain even mocked us for it.

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

Before we look forward, we looked back to a time when one man helped reshape Australia’s future by fixing something seemingly simple. Train tracks. Let us introduce you to: Sir Harold Clapp

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

We want to help change this, to bring an informed view about the reforms that will build a more prosperous Australia, and to consider the institutional changes required to get us there. We believe that supporting quality writing plays a crucial part in starting that journey.

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

What does meaningful reform require technically, institutionally, and culturally? What tradeoffs must we make? What must we do today, for the sake of tomorrow?

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

Reform in Australia has often become performative. Roundtables replace results. Royal Commissions replace resolve. We’ve confused talk for traction. And in all this process we rarely confront the harder questions:

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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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