Former Home Affairs Minister-turned-Housing Minister, Clare O’Neil, regularly lamented that Australia’s migration system was too temporary and held the nation back. “Today, really for the first time in our modern history, our uncapped, unplanned temporary program is the centrepiece and driver of our migration system. This simple fact is the source of huge problems”, O’Neil bemoaned
Two new charts reveal distinct dynamics in Australia's main grids, highlighting the diminishing role of gas even in short-term operations.
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The local gas prices are still at nosebleed levels. Yet the mild summer has been enough to reduce gas-fired power use, causing wholesale electricity prices to collapse. Recall that gas sets the marginal cost of electricity in the wholesale market. Albo’s mooted gas reservation was meant to fix this permanently, but it is already a
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Any time things heat up with an empire-targeted government I always get people demanding to know why I’m not critical of that government.
“Why don’t you criticize Iran? You spend all your time criticizing the west and Israel; you’re a hypocrite if you don’t criticize Iran.”
In this post-truth world, everything old is new again. Does anyone even remember the 2016 APRA macroprudential 10% speed limit on property investors that MB agitated for? Not really. The forgetful includes APRA, as Australia’s irrepressible class of speculators charges back towards the speed limit in a new credit cycle. For the ninth time in
Alex Joiner, chief economist at IFM Investors, recently published the following chart showing the outsized contribution of the non-market sector (i.e., public services, healthcare & social assistance, and education) to overall job growth. Of the 926,425 jobs created between Q1 2023 and Q3 2025, 637,273 (69%) were in the non-market sector that is primarily government
Former LNP media advisor in the Howard government, Chris Kenny, pines for bygone times. In my lifetime I have not seen more division, or a greater lack of social cohesion. Many of us wonder what national values or symbols our country can unite around. “I am not as pessimistic as that,” former prime minister John
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South Australia will go to the polls in March for their state election.
The most recent polls predict an enormous landslide victory for the incumbent Labor government.
As we get closer, it was time to unlock my guide to the South Australian election. I published this guide on March 20 last year, one year out from the election, but it has been locked as a benefit for Tally Room members. I’ve now fully unlocked the guide.
It has happened. Pauline Hanson is now Australia’s number one choice for PM. The LNP has committed suicide, and ON is comfortably the official opposition. Which is driving the surge? You tell me. The moving average at Poll Bludger is fast catching up as ON gobbles votes from both major parties. Once the LNP gets
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Friday night saw a huge reversal in precious metals fortunes perhaps triggered by the Trump regime’s nomination of Kevin Warsh as the next Fed Governor or the technical overbought status of both gold and silver. Silver dropped over 30%, gold fell more than 10%, taking both back to where they were just two weeks ago.
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In the debate over the types of houses being built in Australia, a frequently repeated narrative is that the shift toward more apartments is positive because migrants favour that type of living arrangement. While we lack data on this question for Australia, figures from Canada shed some light on migrants’ housing choices and priorities. While
Europe and China are natural allies in the world’s emerging bloc of electro-tech economies.
Both are large net importers of oil and fossil fuels. Both have a strong incentive to end this dangerous vulnerability as fast as possible.
Trump is pushing China and Europe together to create a new world order
BY Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Germans should adopt a tough stance against “enemies of democracy” at home and uncomplainingly embrace the continuation of costly aid for Ukraine, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has insisted, invoking a maxim on “happy farts.”
Dr. Steve Turley, an American scholar and public intellectual, has become one of the most widely recognized analysts of the political and cultural realignments shaping our time. Trained as a classical guitarist and later earning a doctorate in theology, Turley’s path is unusual.