Undoubtedly, the deterioration in quality has been obvious for years in eastern metropolitan dailies and continues. However, it is important to note that the drivers of the decline have changed marginally. A few months ago, the parent company of the papers sold Domain to the American Costar Group. This raises the question of why Nine
Just how corrupt is Albo? Everybody wants him to crush the gas cartel: 80% of Australians, all of industry and most miners, even the gas cartel itself. Now, farmers. Santos’s blighted Narrabri gas project is facing a new hurdle, with the country’s largest state farming body threatening legal action in a bid to force the state and
By Stephen Saunders The Coalition’s touted policy shifts enable Albanese to sail on with massive immigration, historic rental/housing unaffordability, and steepening power bills. Nominally the Liberal Party mantra is “individual freedom and free enterprise”. With immigration, housing, energy, employment, “United Nations” Labor is interventionist, dirigiste, statist. Donning that Joy Division T-shirt, former student-activist Albanese leads
TechnologyOne boss Ed Chung has rejected claims that restrictive council planning red tape is the source of Australia’s structural housing shortage and crisis. TechnologyOne supplies software to a vast majority of Australian local governments, and Chung argues that councils are being “unfairly targeted” as the primary roadblock to housing supply. “I think local government is
In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, is joined by Leith Van Onselen to break down the Pacific’s growing inflation divide—why the U.S. Federal Reserve is edging toward cuts while the Reserve Bank of Australia is holding firm, what’s really driving the split beneath the headline CPI numbers, and what this
The Australian Financial Review recently reported that the cost of the NDIS continues to escalate. According to the latest data, the cost growth in NDIS plans was 9.5% year-on-year in the September quarter, with expense growth up by 10.1%. Examining these numbers clearly warranted a closer look at the system’s participant growth. Since the end
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HOPE IS AN IMPERSONAL HEROE…..
Who tries to defy net zero
contrarily to RATIONEMACY
Forgetting SAPIENTIAMACY
And abandoning IUSTUMACY
The eternal rose on my desk
Could appear as grotesque
Being made of fine Chinese silk
Like so many fakes of her ilk
Contemplating alternative to DUMBOCRACY
There’s no answers in the aequus of MAGICRACY
The Australian Youth Barometer 2025, produced by Monash University’s Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice (CYPEP), is the fifth annual study of young Australians aged 18–24. It combines surveys (527 participants), interviews, and existing national data to explore youth experiences across economy, work, education, health, relationships, and civic participation This year’s survey paints a
Many will argue that there is no AI bubble. The poster child of the bubble, NVDA, is not running away from profits on valuation. However, bubbles always have a kernel of truth, and that truth distorts underlying economic behaviour. In 1999, it was Cisco profits on routers. Note what happened to profits when the bubble
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