Australian Politics

Elderly parent visas are Australia’s most costly and should be abolished.

The Albanese government announced on the weekend that it will increase the application charge on student visas from $1,600 to $2,000 if Labor is re-elected.

The latest polling from Resolve Political Monitor shows Labor leading the Coalition 53% to 47% in two-party terms.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Victorians pay the highest state and local taxes in the nation.

CBC. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party is predicted to have won Canada’s federal election, according to local media. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the national public broadcaster, said the Liberals will win more of parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservatives.

Australia’s residential property market vacancy rates are still near a record low of only 1%. The Australian Greens announced that abolishing negative gearing and the capital gains tax (CGT) discount would be a priority in a minority government.

All opinion polls are pointing to an easy Labor victory at this weekend’s federal election.

Coalition transport spokesperson Bridget McKenzie floated on Sunday, working with state governments on a road user charge after arguing that tax breaks for electric vehicle (EV) owners are being subsidised by internal combustion engine (ICE) car drivers.

Debate is raging today about a label that Peter Dutton has applied to the ABC and The Guardian that they are “hate media”.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released data last week showing that Victorians are paying the highest state and local taxes in the nation. As illustrated in the table below, state and local government taxes were $6,348 per capita in 2023-24, $654 (11.5%) higher than the state and territory average.

Opinion polls continue to collapse on Peter Dutton and the Coalition ahead of Saturday’s federal election.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan chose to sign the contracts to build the first leg of the $200-plus billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) project against the explicit advice of infrastructure experts.

The Dutton-led Coalition is staring down a massive election defeat, with the latest polling from Roy Morgan showing Labor’s two-party preferred vote widening to 55.5% (up 1%) against the Coalition’s 44.5%.

They say that the fish rots from the head and never was a truer word spoken about the festering Australian Financial Review.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are massively subsidised in Australia. First, more than $550 million of tax revenue is estimated to be lost annually due to the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for battery EVs and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs); however, the FBT exemptions for PHEVs ended on 1 April 2025.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) annual state accounts, Victoria’s per capita GDP fell by 1.2% in 2023-04 and has only risen by 10.4% since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008.

If it wins the upcoming federal election, the Dutton-led Coalition will commit to implementing a gas reservation policy covering Australia’s East Coast.

Australia’s property obsession is slowly strangling the nation’s economy. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the total value of Australia’s housing stock reached a record high of $11,032.2 billion at the end of 2024, with the average home valued at $976,800.

For years, Macro Business has sounded the alarm about Australia’s immigration-driven housing crisis.

The Albanese government’s Australian Universities Accord Final Report set a target of 55% of young Australians having a university degree by 2050.

Is there a bigger gaslighter in Australian politics than Teals MP for Wentworth, Allegra Spender?

It is sounding like Groundhog Day for Victorians.

Last week, the Queensland government announced that it would repeal the state’s legislated renewable energy targets.

This report from Crikey, which has no idea about international relations, is so alarming that all Australians need to take pause.

At the end of 2024, Australians required a record share of household income to make mortgage repayments on a median-priced home.