What follows is a snapshot of my work over the last three years at the nation’s best finance paper:
All these stories are out from behind the famously high AFR paywall, so click freely!
Antimetabole – a language trap
Treasury Island – Nauru (6000 words – not only my longest but my best story ever)
How being wrong perpetuates itself
Game Theory and the labor leadership
Five reasons for an economic rationalist to vote Green
How the romance of trains trumps the practicality of buses, and why that’s bad
The 96 tram is an economic powerhouse
Leak highlights losses for Pie Face
How New Zealand is beating us to the next wool bonanza (magazine feature)
Learning second languages in school is a waste of effort and practically impossible anyway
Journalists in Australia retain copyright to their work, but it only applies to replication in books. When that clause was written, I bet there was no other way to reproduce a newspaper story. Now in the internet age, the newspaper’s power is much higher. Sadly, hat means I can’t post any work from the paper directly to the blog.
Thomas the Think Engine 
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