Lowest since 1973. Australian consumer confidence in ANZ-Roy Morgan reached its lowest level since records started in 1973. The decline is probably due to the RBA’s decision last week to raise the ...

Queensland received the largest dollar increase in GST in 2026–27: $2.45 billion, or $423 per person. Even so, Treasurer David Janetzki claims Queensland is being unfairly penalised in the GST ...

The Department of Education has released data showing that international university (higher education) commencements rose slightly (+0.7%) in 2025 to a record high of 214,100: This pushed university ...

This would be a worry in normal circumstances. The secret voice of the East Coast gas cartel, the Grattan Institute, is warning that a power shock is imminent. Stand by for a repeat of the effects of ...

Australia has run one of the strongest immigration programs in the world this century, resulting in a remarkable 9 million (47%) population increase, as indicated by the ABS Population Clock’s most ...

I do believe that Australia has finally been dealt a set of circumstances that will, certeris paribus, crash the property market. As LVO noted yesterday, the property market has already turned.

Trading Trump’s mind is like…stepping in dog shit to shine your shoes. Sure, it might work if scrubbed hard enough, but it ...

The Albanese government is underestimating the severity of what might be the biggest oil crisis in history, driven by interruptions in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, ...

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese put out a tweet that he had spoken with Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, noting that the two had agreed to “support the flow of essentials goods ...

On face value, Australia’s labour market is in a solid position. The nation’s unemployment rate remained at a historically low 4.3% in February 2026, well below the decade average of 4.9%: Australia’s ...

Lord Charlton is on the hustings again today, and wouldn’t you know it, rather than doing the work of securing global fuel supplies, he’s busy blame-shifting the imminent Australian catastrophe on…you ...

In 2024, former federal Treasury official Stephen Anthony warned that Victoria may need a federal “bailout” due to increasing state debt. The federal government has already effectively moved to bail ...