With the government proposing to de-corporatise SA Water, this post tracks what happened to water prices in Adelaide under SA Water and raises some issues for whatever regulatory regime will replace SA Water.

Older people’s privilege is based on a false sense of need or entitlement, but examples in this article show it is bad public policy, masks the fundamental inequality of class processes and perpetuates a problematic view of deserving and undeserving poor people.

This post updates my previous writings on how inequality data based solely on income ignores housing tenure, wealth and social transfers in kind. This fundamentally misunderstands hardship and inequality and leads to poor policy.

The Gender Equality @ Work Index produced by Sydney Uni academics is a great summary of national changes in gender workplace inequality, but the South Australian data might tell a slightly different story.

The comparison of median rent data for March Qtr 2025 shows that the commercial asking rent data inflates rent prices, a trend reflected over time. This matters because it impacts on rents in the market.