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Australians are stuck in a low income growth trap

February 24, 2026 - 00:01 -- Admin

Real per capita household disposable income is arguably the single best measure of material living standards. The OECD has released cross-country data on real per capita household disposable income for the third quarter of 2025. According to the OECD, Australia has recorded the smallest increase in real per capita household disposable income among major English-speaking

Poor benighted Gerard

February 23, 2026 - 22:24 -- Admin

I only recently discovered that, like Cory Bernardi in early 20171, Gerard Rennick had been dumped from a winnable seat in the Senate, and had got the hump and attempted, also like Bernardi, unsuccessfully to set up his own party, to try to hang onto his political ‘career’. Rennick, the Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) senator was dumped from a winnable spot on the party’s Queensland ticket in July 2023 in a preselection punch up.