Australia is muzzled

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There are three great challenges currently facing Australia:

  1. The role of immigration in Albo’s astonishing housing crisis.
  2. The East Coast Gas Cartel’s role in ruining the energy transition.
  3. The role of China in an unfolding national income shock.

Yet we can’t talk about any of the three.

On housing, how can we find a solution to Albo’s calamitous housing shortage if we don’t mention the primary driver in immigration? Woke and a property-compromised media is the culprit here:

How can we pursue the lowest-cost and fastest energy transition if we don’t discuss the role of gas in the disaster of electricity prices? Corruption and media stupidity are the problem here.

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Finally, how can we prepare for the end of the twenty-year commodity boom and accompanying massive downdraft in national income if we can’t mention Voldermort China? Labor grovelling is the problem here:

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It’s the dumb leading the deaf in a nation-turned-denialist infant.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.