International Reading:
- Full blown catastrophe: Trump’s Iran War leaves gas stations “out of diesel” – News Week
- Some gas stations “out of diesel” as prices surge – Yahoo
- Farmers slam Trump over record diesel prices: “we just can’t survive” – News Week
- Warsh Suggests Fed Rate Hike Is Good-News Story, Touting Growth | Fed Chair Warsh sells rate hike as a reflection of a strengthening economy – Bloomberg
- US billionaires line up to bankroll Republicans’ election push: Ultra-wealthy overwhelmingly back Donald Trump’s party over Democrats as money floods into midterms race – FT
- How Fed rate hike could hit millions selling their homes – News Week
- Trump administration paid $9.5 billion in leave for federal employees in 2025, due to DOGE-era buyout program – CBS News
- Carney accuses Trump of weaponising trade after president condemns ‘laughable’ EU-Canada membership – Independent
- ‘Hostile act’: Trump threatens EU with tariffs over Canada associate-membership proposal – CNBC
- Airlines are cutting cheaper flights amid latest jet fuel spike – CNN
- Gas prices are about to take a big jump, analysts say, with the worst still to come – Washington Post
- Wealth Inequality Has Grown During the Trump Administration – American Progress
- Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow – Futurism
- ‘H-1B visas should not exist to replace American workers with low-wage foreigners’: JD Vance – Times of India
- Eight ways Canada can turbocharge its economic growth – Be Giant
- China cuts US Treasury holdings to 18-year low amid global sell-off. Is anyone buying treasuries??? – SCMP
Local Reading:
- In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty – The Guardian
- Australia, New Zealand could follow Canada as ‘associate members’ of EU, European Parliament president hints – ABC
- Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU – Independent
- As our car sizes grow, new evidence points to pedestrian risk – ABC
- Labor considers smart glasses restrictions, new national AI standards – ABC
- Australians with big mortgages are stressed out – and the mental health toll is heavy – The Guardian
- Working holiday visas overhauled with ballot system, Border Force to target 77,000 visa overstayers in crackdown – News.com.au
- Aboriginal leaders, experts alarmed by Labor’s broken election promise on compulsory income management – ABC
- Europe’s summer emergency was a dire warning for Australia. What can be learned before it’s too late? – The Guardian
- International students to be effectively barred from bringing family to Australia – ABC
- The tax shitshow – Interest.co.nz
- Despite surge in properties being rented in July the median rent fell – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ has ‘no choice’ but to raise OCR in October, BNZ’s Stephen Toplis says – Interest.co.nz
- NZ’s economy grew 0.2% in the June quarter – Interest.co.nz
MB Media Appearances:
This interview with Chris Kenny at News24 unpacks Labor’s weak sauce immigration reforms, which would see one million net migrants arrive in just four years.
In this interview with Phil O’Neil on Radio 2GB/4BC, I preview Labor’s immigration cuts, which will be announced later today, and dissect One Nation’s immigration policy.
This interview with Tom Elliott on Radio 3AW Melbourne discusses the debt disaster facing the next Victorian government and what can be done to address it.
This Treasury of Common Sense with Luke Grant at Radio 2GB/4BC explained how data centres threaten to upend Australia’s energy system. I also explain how bureaucrats and the federal government are assaulting Australia’s democracy.
This interview with Bill McDonald at ABC Radio Brisbane discusses Queensland’s credit rating downgrade and the outlook for other state governments.
