68. Economist Dr Cameron Murray - Scrapping Super, Affordable Housing, Inflation and Political Corruption
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The author of a new book about political favoritism in Australia talks to John Defterios. Game of Mates, How Favers Bleed the Nation is published by Simon & Schuster and comes out in 2022. It's based on his research into land rezoning decisions across Queensland where he found that it was all down to social networks rather than size or location. He says there are 252,000 relationships between landowners and politicians amongst 12,000 people. And so you could predict where the boundary of an area would be based on how much political favors were still being exchanged among those who owned the land at the same time.
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