Winter has come

Just in time for Brissie to the Bay

Jun 07, 2024

After what seemed like endless months of hot and humid weather, it’s suddenly cold, just in time for my 130km Brissie to the Bay bike ride supporting people with MS. I’ll have to rug up for a 6:30am start, then strip down as the day and I warm up together. There’s still time to donate and push me over the $5000 mark I’m hoping to achieve. And there’s a matching offer for donations up to $100

A group of cyclists riding on a cool winter morning. The cyclists are wearing warm, brightly colored clothing and helmets. The landscape is frosty with patches of snow on the ground and trees bare of leaves. Their breath is visible in the cold air. The sky is clear with a hint of morning light, creating a serene and crisp atmosphere. The road they are on is slightly winding and surrounded by winter scenery.

(Winter in Brisbane is nothing like this, but it’s an impressive image from the latest iteration of ChatGPT)

What I’ve been writing

Evidence presented to Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry into Help to Buy (Commonwealth Powers) Bill 2024

Network Structure and Market Power in the Australian Airline Industry, paper presented (remotely) to Third Annual Networks, Platforms & Utilities Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.

It’s time to give Labor’s first term a scorecard – have we actually seen any transformative vision? The Conversation, 16 May

Quiggin, J. 2024. Will Irresistible Force Overcome Immovable Object? Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12571

Media

My media report for May, password quiggin (Thanks as usual to Alysha Hilevuo for preparing this)

John Quiggin's Substack Newsletter

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