Australia has the highest concentration of international students among major advanced nations. Figures from the Department of Home Affairs show that the approval rate for international student visas fell below 75% in October, compared to 83.6% for the same month in 2024. The decline in approval rates came at the same time as the number
The first rant I ever posted on this blog all the way back in early 2017 was entitled Gun Nuts and it referred to data from 2013 on general gun deaths in the US. At that time 33,534 people were killed by guns, at a rate of 10.35 per 100,000 people. In Australia in the same year 225 people were killed by guns, at a rate of 0.94 per 100,000 people1.
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The conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was constructive, very useful, and substantive, according to Russian Presidential aide, Yuri Ushakov.
Only in Australia would an iconic infrastructure company double as a corruption cesspit. Snowy Hydro is a kind of Canberra plaything; a dirty quango without values or direction. It pisses money away like rain on the mountainside, employs proven energy wreckers, and adds tens of billions of unnecessary costs to the energy transition. Let’s take
In one of her first interviews as New South Wales Opposition Leader, Liberal MP Kellie Sloane was quizzed on the issue of migration on Sky News: Interviewer “Do you believe we need a cut to migration?” Sloane: “Well, I think we need to make sure that migration intake is balanced with our ability to provide
Down she goes, and where she stops nobody knows. Sales drowning. Year to date sinking. Inventory bouyant. Completions taking on water. Some of this is the recently banned data. It is not clear if the data remains are available to subscribers. Meanwhile, the reason for the ban is going to the bottom like a holed
