Cotality’s latest Housing Chart Pack valued Australia’s total residential housing stock at $11.5 trillion as of June 2025, comprising 11.3 million dwellings. This means that the average value of an Australian home was $1,018,000 in June 2025, a remarkable figure that ranks Australian housing among the most expensive in the world. Aussie YouTuber Biko Konstantinos
The New York Times recently published a letter from me responding to a guest essay (op-ed) by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears, with whom I’ve been engaging on the question of pro-natalism. As a colleague who had such a letter published a few years ago observed, this will probably get more readers than any journal article I’ve ever written. The text is over the fold
A soft risk taking mood on Asian share markets today following yesterday’s quiet sessions as concerns continue over the inability of the Trump regime to get any trade “deals” cut before the August 1st deadline, with India and Japan effectively ruling out any such notion. Meanwhile the Europeans are pushing back on the new baseline
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Ben is joined by Kevin Bonham and Chris Monnox to discuss the results of the Tasmanian state election and prospects for the formation of a new government.
Tonight, I will be appearing on DFA Live with Martin North from 8:00 pm AEST, where we will discuss everything related to housing, energy, and the economy. The YouTube feed is below. I hope to see you there.
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Wokey continues its good work for the CCP, led by Bernard Keane, China groveller extraordinaire. Abbott’s hypocrisy on this was so extraordinary that even the toddler speaking with him pointed out he’d negotiated a free trade agreement with China when he was briefly prime minister. Abbott defended himself by saying it was possible to see
The federal government’s election pledge to reduce student debt for about three million Australians will be a legislative priority for the first week of the new parliament. University graduates will have their debt reduced by 20%, but e61 Institute economists Jack Buckley and Matthew Maltman have concluded that people in the top third of income-earners
Westpac with the credit card tracker. The Westpac-DataX Card Tracker Index* was largely unchanged over the first two weeks of July. At 137, the latest weekly read continues to hold around the lower end of the range seen since mid-May. The quarterly growth pulse is holding in the 0.9-1.1% range that has prevailed for
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