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Beware another high-rise apartment boom

September 18, 2025 - 00:05 -- Admin

Australia’s governments want to ‘solve’ the housing crisis by pushing Australians into high-rise apartments. They ignore that the 2010s decade saw the biggest boom in high-rise apartment construction in Australia’s history, concentrated in the nation’s major capital cities: This unprecedented boom in high-rise apartment complexes resulted in a spike in construction faults and quality issues,

Aussie economy losing momentum?

September 17, 2025 - 14:00 -- Admin

After this month’s stronger-than-expected June quarter national accounts release, which saw the economy grow by 0.6% over the quarter (faster than consensus and the RBA’s forecasts), Westpac’s leading index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity relative to trend three to nine months into the future, has stalled. The six-month annualised growth rate in

The political realities of ‘Net Zero’ and the LNP

September 17, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

On Monday, Shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Hastie threatened to quit the opposition front bench unless Coalition leader Sussan Ley abandons the party’s commitment to a net zero emissions target. For more than two decades, the Coalition has been engaging in internal battles over the issue of climate change action. Back in 2003, several prominent

Iron ore inexplicable

September 17, 2025 - 10:30 -- Admin

There are days when an investors’ patience is tested. Yesterday was one for iron ore. Chinese data was bad. Not so bad as to expect imminent super stimmies but bad enough that commodity prices should have taken a hit given the weakness was most notable in commodity-intensive sectors. Goldman gives us a brief wrap Bottom

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