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It’s official: international education is a migration scam

October 1, 2025 - 11:00 -- Admin

Everything I have written about Australia’s student-migration scam has been confirmed by the latest study on the international education sector by Jobs & Skills Australia (JSA). JSA openly acknowledged that most international students come to Australia primarily to work and live, rather than for educational purposes. Nearly 70% of international higher education students reported migration

Rocketing electricity prices and the CPI

October 1, 2025 - 10:30 -- Admin

Following the release of the monthly CPI for August, headlines about skyrocketing electricity prices began to circulate, highlighting the 24.6% year-on-year increase in electricity costs. While that is certainly true as measured by the CPI, the reality is quite a bit more complicated, and the headline rise in power prices is going to worsen significantly

Manufacturers demand gas reservation

October 1, 2025 - 10:00 -- Admin

In the early 2010s, the federal Labor government made the disastrous decision to allow the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Queensland without forcing gas companies to first supply Australians. Gary Grey, the then-Federal Resources Minister under the Gillard/Rudd Labor governments, argued that domestic gas reserve policies create uncertainty and discourage investment. This pitted

Labor’s housing target collapses into dust

October 1, 2025 - 08:00 -- Admin

On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released dwelling approvals data for July, which showed 15,624 trend approvals for the month, down 1.0% from July. Approvals remained 4,376 (22%) behind the National Housing Accord’s five-year objective of 20,000 dwellings per month. In the year to August, 189,105 dwellings were approved for construction, which was

RBA holds on resurgent inflation risks

September 30, 2025 - 14:40 -- Admin

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has chosen to hold the official cash rate at 3.60%, in what was a unanimous decision. In arriving at its decision, the statement noted that “the decline in underlying inflation has slowed”, with “recent data, while partial and volatile, suggest[ing] that inflation in the September quarter may

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