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Canada’s brutal rental market lesson for Australia

April 11, 2025 - 00:05 -- Admin

While Australia’s mainstream media and the university and property lobbies continue to lie about the impacts of immigration on the rental market, Canada has provided a dose of reality. In the years following the pandemic, Canada experienced an unprecedented boom in immigration, which drove a record 1.2 million increase in the country’s population in 2023–04.

Macro Afternoon

April 10, 2025 - 16:30 -- Admin

The Con Artist in Chief has dumped and pumped global stock markets with his near complete folding of the tariffs announced mere days (feels like months) ago, with huge rallies across Asian markets today as they play catchup to Wall Street. Even Chinese markets are floating higher despite the fact that this is but a

US senator goes into bat for Australia on tariffs

April 10, 2025 - 14:00 -- Admin

President Trump’s 10% tariff on Australia never made sense. Australia has historically had a gaping trade deficit with the United States. As illustrated in the table below from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the United States exported (A$88.2b) more than double what it imported (A$37.5b) from Australia in 2023-24. The Trump administration’s

ANU gaslights again on immigration’s housing impacts

April 10, 2025 - 12:30 -- Admin

The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda. Propagandists like “Dr Demography” Liz Allen are regular mouthpieces on the pro-Big Australia migration circuit, as are the ANU Migration Hub’s Peter McDonald and Alan Gamlen. Now, a new immigration propagandist has emerged from ANU – Ben Phillips from ANU’s

RBA acknowledges that excessive immigration is killing productivity

April 10, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

Australia’s labour productivity performance has ranked among the lowest in the world. The following chart shows that the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) projections for productivity growth have been far too optimistic over the past decade. Last month, the RBA’s Head of Economic Analysis, Michael Plumb, tacitly admitted that Australia’s mass immigration policy has eroded

How Labor robbed Australians of our own gas

April 10, 2025 - 11:30 -- Admin

In the early last decade, the federal Labor government made the fateful decision to approve the export of liquified natural gas (LNG) out of Queensland without requiring gas companies to supply Australians first. Then Federal Resources Minister under the Gillard/Rudd Labor governments, Gary Gray, claimed that domestic gas reservation policies create uncertainty and deter investment,

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