Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan chose to sign the contracts to build the first leg of the $200-plus billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) project against the explicit advice of infrastructure experts. SRL East, which will link Box Hill and Cheltenham, is budgeted to cost $34.5 billion. To date, the state has only secured $11.8 billion of
The taxpayer-funded ABC refuses to discuss the immigration-housing issue with objectivity and balance. On Wednesday, I lambasted the ABC for choosing two well-renowned Big Australia propagandists—the ANU Migration Hub’s resident shill, Alan Gamlen, and the Grattan Institute (which is sponsored by Big Australia lobby group, the Scanlon Foundation)—to debunk the claim that excessive migration is
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) Q4 2024 national accounts revealed that the economy finally emerged from a per capita recession following 21 consecutive quarters of decline. Australia’s per capita recession was driven by the household sector, where consumption fell for a record eighth consecutive quarter. The decline in per capita consumption followed a record
If you want further evidence that the education export industry is a giant migration scam, look no further than the latest report on “phantom” students from The Australian: Foreign students from Africa, Pakistan and India have been reported missing from universities… Phantom students have been exposed by the Queensland University of Technology, which revealed nearly
The Market Ear on the chaos. Show me the trend SPX has mostly been frustrating everybody. Huge volatility, no direction. Source: Refinitiv Did they front run the crash? The aggregate selling from systematics has been huge. The question is whether they front ran the SPX move lower, discounting a bigger bear than realized? Source: GS
DXY is back. EUR splat. AUD follows EUR. Lead boots stuck. Bretton Woods II firming hit gold. Metals did better. Big mining=big bear. EM yawn. Junk cancels recession. Curve flattened. Stocks to the moon. It’s not hard to see why the child president is in a panicked reversal. Check out these internal from the Richmond
As the Trump regime folds faster than a dodgy poor chair on its tariff tirade against China, risk sentiment is bouncing back across most but not all markets with US and European stocks surging overnight while the USD firmed against the undollars. However, bond markets remain in flux with the 10 year Treasury yield almost
On every metric, Australian housing is unaffordable. At the end of 2024, the national dwelling price-to-income ratio was 8.0, up from a 20-year average of 6.7 and nearly double the level of the early 2000s. The number of years taken for a median-income household to save a deposit on a median-priced home was 10.6, up
In surprise to no one, the Trump regime has wavered first as it signals “very nice” but probably non-existent trade talks with China and nullifies suggestions that Fed Chair Powell’s head is on the chopping block. This has seen extended rallies across stocks while the USD has firmed against most undollars although the Australian dollar
The Dutton-led Coalition is staring down a massive election defeat, with the latest polling from Roy Morgan showing Labor’s two-party preferred vote widening to 55.5% (up 1%) against the Coalition’s 44.5%. The following chart plots recent polling from various sources and shows Labor’s lead widening as the election date approaches. Primary support for Labor also