In 2023, Labor MP Julian Hill, who is the Assistant Minister for Citizenship, Customs and Multicultural Affairs, and Assistant Minister for International Education, described Australia’s international education system as resembling a “Ponzi scheme”, accusing agents of misusing student visas by promoting them as cheap work visas with pathways to permanent residency. Phil Honeywood, the CEO
Amidst the ongoing controversy and debate relating to the shooting of two people this month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Americans have been left bitterly divided over whether or not their actions were justified. To explore this issue in the most fact-based way as related to how it is perceived
In the lead-up to December’s Q2 population release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), several key data sets were pointing to rebounding net overseas migration (NOM). First, the Q3 national accounts, released just a few weeks prior in early December, showed that Australia’s population growth had rebounded: Second, the civilian (15-plus) population data released
The ferrous jaws must close! CISA’s second ten days of January output was well below last year. Worse, inventories rise to 16.13mt. This one million tonnes above last year and the prospect of anything but weak restock is all but certain now. The iron ore great pyramids continue to grow. The Steelhome measure is approaching records
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Its all about the structural “off-America” risk trade with the US dollar index now down to a four month low with the Australian dollar making another new high as it surged through the 69 cent level at the start of the trading week. Gold and silver surged again while Wall Street kept hope alive as
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DXY is fast approaching critical support. If it breaks down, and why not, given it is now a measure of the madness of the POTUS, then all bets are off on everything. AUD is more than the mirror image. Supported by rate hike fever and the roaring JPY. Rushing past the plodding CNY. Golden parabola.
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Labour force data released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that the nation’s official unemployment rate eased to a seven-month low of 4.1% in December. The result compared with 4.3% in November and economists’ expectations that unemployment would rise to 4.4%. The latest Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) from the Reserve
Victoria sets new date for its first offshore wind tender, nearly a year after the original that was delayed last year.
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Australia’s leaders are trying to avoid becoming a target in a harsher, more coercive world. But silence and caution can’t substitute for strategy – or for honest leadership that levels with the public.
British Conservative lawmaker Suella Braverman, who was home secretary — the UK equivalent to interior minister — between 2022 and 2023, has joined Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party.
Moscow and Washington will not engage in dialogue with Brussels’ foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Peskov made the remarks after the US, Russia and Ukraine concluded their first round of three-way negotiations in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. EU officials have complained that, despite providing military and financial aid to Kiev, the bloc has been largely excluded from the talks.
Australia’s housing market is an unmitigated disaster on almost every metric. Cotality’s latest housing affordability report showed that dwelling values relative to household incomes were tracking at a record high of 8.2 in the September quarter of 2025: The ratio of mortgage payments to household income was tracking at a near record high of 45.0%
Global warming is one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity today. As emissions continue to rise, global temperatures keep breaking records and the world's poorest nations bear the brunt of a crisis they did little to create.
Time to fix responsibility for climate change
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This is one of the most depressing Australia Days I can remember. We are still recovering from the horror of the Bondi massacre and the disgraceful jostling for political advantage that followed it. Meanwhile, the news is that opposition is hardening on changing the date to one less offensive to First Nations people. The actual shifts aren’t that great in statistical terms, but there’s no doubt that this shift, along with the rise of One Nation reflects something real.
French giants dominate offshore wind licences out west, but none offered in Illawarra or Bass Strait
Three projects totalling up to 4 gigawatts offered feasibility licences in W.A., but the Illawarra and Bass Strait miss out.
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