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Recently, a reader shared with me the statistics on the level of prosecutions against fraudsters within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The internal reporting of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), the government authority overseeing the scheme, found that in the June quarter of 2024, there were more than 7,000 tip-offs alleging fraud. Of

Compare the Market’s annual Household Budget Barometer report shows that many Australians are continuing to feel the strain of rising living costs. Only 7% of the 3,000-plus respondents feel that the Australian economy has improved over the last year, while just 22% feel optimistic about the economic future. Shadow Treasurer Ted O’Brien says the figures

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Under progressive leadership regimes, the Australian central bank has become ever more corrupt and unable to speak truth to power, especially when it comes to the single most important macroeconomic input into the economy: immigration. Just this week, we had another analysis from RBA boffin Sarah Hunter, which refused to acknowledge the obvious: the immigration-led

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Kait Williamson from Flow Power on how one Victorian town built its own green power solution from the ground up.  

The ferrous complex is falling apart; it just doesn’t know it yet. Steel prices are collapsing. The spread to iron ore is eviscerating mill profits as inventories pile up. This is both rebar and, more importantly, HRC. It’s so bad that the need for a New Year steel restock is nearly gone. Mills are going

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The Market Ear wraps us up. Welcome to extreme fear The problem is we have not seen CNN’s greed/fear index hit extreme fear territory and SPX this close to ATHs (chart 2). Source: CNN Source: Macromicro Imagine regional… …goes a bit more “global”? SPX vs. KRE gap getting rather wide. Source: LSEG Workspace Huge gap

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DXY no bueno. AUD even less bueno. Gold bueno. Oil no bueno. AI metals are confused. Big miners breakout or false? EM bounceback. Junk not so much! Yields freefall. Stocks need a deeper pullback. Newsflow is whacko, courtesy of ZH. Washington shutdown. Geopolitical risk Weak Macro Hawkish FedSpeak Waller sounded less dovish than normal: “You

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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela.

Australians have endured the biggest decline in real wages in history. As of the June quarter of 2025, Australian real wages were still tracking 6.0% below their June 2020 level, at roughly the same level as December 2011. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) Assistant governor and chief economist Sarah Hunter warned that Australia’s sagging

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Fortescue CEO Dino Otranto discusses the rapid technology changes - in wind, solar and batteries - that will deliver the company's bold real zero target for 2030.