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The Pilbara killer stalks BHP

October 2, 2025 - 10:00 -- Admin

Strategic buffoon Anthony Albanese is discovering that kowtowing to Beijing only encourages it. “We have seen those issues in the past. I want to see Australian iron ore to be able to be exported to China without hindrance.” “If prolonged, the (pause) risks squeezing steel margins or forcing selective output cuts … but China cannot

Conservationists fight back against enviro-wrecking renewables

October 2, 2025 - 08:00 -- Admin

Last month, I reported that green groups had lambasted the mass rollout of wind turbines across regional Australia. Veteran conservationist and former federal Greens leader Christine Milne labelled wind turbines “biodiversity-destroying”.  Wilderness Society national campaigns director Amelia Young also quit the group after almost 20 years, citing “intolerable … attitudes and behaviours” – and warning

Australia’s government-guaranteed housing bubble

October 2, 2025 - 00:05 -- Admin

The Albanese government’s First Home Guarantee scheme came into effect on Wednesday, allowing almost all first home buyers to purchase a home with only a 5% deposit, without requiring lenders’ mortgage insurance, as taxpayers will guarantee 15% of the mortgage. Analysis by Lateral Economics suggested that the 5% deposit scheme could increase home prices nationally

Capital shallowing strips Australian productivity growth

October 1, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

Analysis from the OECD, published in The AFR, shows that Australia ranks second-last among wealthy nations in terms of productivity growth since the COVID-19 pandemic. EY’s chief economist, Cherelle Murphy, says the decline is partly attributable to “capital shallowing”—the fact that local companies are not investing enough capital in new equipment to match the growth

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

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