Universities Australia (UA) has published its pre-budget submission, which repeats the lie that international education is “a $52 billion export engine” and “one of Australia’s biggest money-makers”. This fantastical $52 billion education export figure comes from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and is wildly exaggerated because it does not subtract money earned and then
The crushing of traditional state politics continues today as another new poll, this time Roy Morgan, shows One Nation on fire in NSW. On the primary vote, New South Wales voters are divided a year before a state election, with One Nation (30%) now the most popular, leading the governing ALP (25%) and the official
By Salvatore Babones It’s back to school this week for most of Australia’s 1.5 million university students—and back to Canberra for Australia’s top 1000 education bureaucrats. Universities Australia is holding its annual Solutions Summit this week in Canberra. The jamboree kicks off today with a session on “Putting First Nations at the heart of higher
Recently, Canadian news outlet ‘The Globe and Mail’ provoked controversy and furious social media discussions with one of its analyses. In it, the author asserted that, based on per capita GDP adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Canada was now poorer than the U.S. state of Alabama. According to IMF figures, Canada’s per capita GDP
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
Lol, you go girl. Our favorite thorn in the side of the fake left, Drew Pavlou, has been deported back to Australia. Pavlou recently decided to test Billie Eilish’s Grammy Awards statement that “no one is illegal on stolen land.” He joked that, as an illegal immigrant, he would fly to Los Angeles and “occupy”
I have been recording an increasing bearishness in the market over the past few weeks. Now it appears the tail risk might be on the other side of the boat, or on both sides. Short interest has rocketed. It’s in the Sardines too. Weirdly, tech is the least shorted. It’s mostly defensives. With vol on
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas let the veil slip last week, claiming in a talk to CEDA that Australia needs high inflows of migrants from poor developing nations to wipe elderly Australians’ bums: “My message to One Nation voters is: who’s going to feed you and bathe you and wipe your bum when you’re 90,
Since the end of 2019, Australia has recorded the strongest net overseas migration (NOM) in the nation’s history, with 266,000 net migrants arriving annually, including the Covid-19 border closures: According to Shane Oliver at AMP, Australia’s cumulative housing shortage is tracking somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000, depending on assumptions about the number of people per
Former Treasury official turned director of Macroeconomics Advisory, Stephen Anthony, is one of the few economists who understands the pitfalls of Australia’s transition to an all-renewable energy future. Anthony penned an article in the Daily Telegraph warning that the foolhardy push to close down Australia’s stable, baseload coal power for intermittent, weather-dependent renewables will drive