The writing was on the wall for Albo in his first week. While Australian energy markets were melting down on Ukraine War profiteering by the gas cartel, Albo was busy talking up how he would aim for a two-term government. Any PM who is so focused on re-election as his top priority has no interest
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The latest YouGov poll suggests the Dutton-led Coalition will most likely win the upcoming federal election and form the next government. YouGov’s latest MRP model suggests the Coalition would likely win around 73 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, with a lower estimate of 65 and an upper estimate of 80, if a federal election
Only ten years late. The Albanese government will launch a crackdown on housing purchases by foreign buyers, implementing a two-year ban on the purchase of established homes by temporary residents to replicate a previous commitment by the Coalition. …Simultaneously, the Albanese government will also conduct a review into the ban’s effectiveness to determine whether it
Last week, SQM Research released its January vacancy report, revealing that the national vacancy rate declined to just 1.0%, down 0.1% from January 2024. Commenting on the results, SQM Research managing director Louis Christopher noted that the rental crisis appears to have reignited, potentially driven by a resurgence of net overseas migration. “The sharp decrease
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According to the Department of Education, a record 1,018,799 international students were enrolled in Australia in the year to September 2024: The table below displays the breakdown of enrolments by type of institution. As you can see, vocational education and training (VET) has experienced the greatest increase in student numbers since 2019, rising from 247,467
You’ve just got to love China. Nothing that matters stays broken for long. January credit data is out, coming in strong at RMB 7060bn in January, vs. Bloomberg consensus: RMB 6500bn. Amusingly, the money supply data that has been telling the truth about how bad the Chinese economy is has been fixed! M1 to the
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Last week, ABC’s 7.30 report aired a special on Australia’s housing crisis, which was put together by Alan Kohler. The segment blamed Australia’s housing crisis on a lack of housing supply and tax concessions like negative gearing. The segment also featured renowned pro-mass immigration shills and YIMBYs, the Centre for Independent Studies’ Peter Tulip and
What could $27 billion fund if Commonwealth-state transfers were adjusted to bring revenue and expenses for each level of government closer to balance?
Today I’m announcing some work that was mostly finished at the end of last year but was put on hold until the new year, but is now finished.
I have now added a number of new datasets to my data repository covering elections held in the second half of 2024. These are:
All hail King Trump! While Australia is busy destroying itself via the evil East Coast gas cartel, King Trump is working on a plan to save us. The possibility of an end to the war in Ukraine is, of course, a positive development but all indications are that the outcome will reward Russia’s leader Vladimir
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Over the past century and a half, politics and economics have evolved significantly in how we manage society. Yet, the core principle remains: every person born on this earth has a right to a share of its bounty.