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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Australia’s universities are among the nation’s most poorly run organisations. The number of international enrolments hit a record high of 839,200 in the year to June 2025. This was up around 13,400 (1.6%) from the 825,800 enrolments in 2024, around 130,440 (18%) higher than the same time in 2019 before the pandemic, and more than

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 12:00 Source

The Australian’s Judith Sloan last week attacked the “shoddy” economic arguments used by those who favour large immigration numbers and open-border policies. The canards identified by Sloan include the following: Recent high figures of net overseas migration (long-term arrivals minus long-term departures) are merely a catchup from the pause caused by Covid. The overall trend

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:30 Source

In the wake of the recent assassination of American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at an event at Utah Valley University, there has been a renewed drive for greater levels of gun control in the United States. Historically, the push for greater gun control in the U.S. has been accompanied by commentary that America should follow

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Green groups have attacked the planned mass rollout of “biodiversity-destroying” wind turbines across regional Australia. Veteran conservationist and former federal Greens leader Christine Milne told The Australian that peak environmental non-­government organisations were too “frightened” to oppose renewables projects: “I find it incomprehensible that you get this line back (from NGOs) that you can’t oppose

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 10:30 Source

When the latest polling from Resolve was published by the Sydney Morning Herald and the other Nine Entertainment papers, it revealed that the One Nation primary vote was polling at a record high of 12%, overtaking the Greens as the third largest primary vote. While this is just one poll, a broader long-term analysis of

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 10:00 Source

According to Domain, Australian home values are soaring at the lower end of the market, putting immense strain on affordability for first home buyers. Domain data shows that property prices in the bottom quarter of the market have increased faster than the top quarter during the last three years in most capital cities. “What it

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The Tally Room Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 09:30 Source

The Tasmanian government has announced plans to “reform” Tasmanian local government by slashing the number of councillors across the state. The government has put up a discussion paper on the topic, but in short it would reduce the number of elected officials on councils to five, seven or nine members. Across the state, this would remove almost 23% of all councillor positions.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 09:12 Source

The unnerving alliance between Big Tech and the second Trump administration goes much deeper than many in the public realize. What factors are motivating President Trump and Silicon Valley’s monumental investments in “artificial intelligence” infrastructure and the expanded integration of “AI” into military and governmental operating systems?

 

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 09:00 Source

From the Market Ear: AIQ at the most overbought levels since July 2024…just before markets crashed. The tech buy in Last week’s “notional net buying in global Info Tech was the largest in seven months and ranks in the 99th percentile on a 5-year lookback”. Soon enough… Everybody has been waiting for weak September… but

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