Australian Politics

Only in Australia would an iconic infrastructure company double as a corruption cesspit.

One Nation is eating the LNP alive.

With the release of the latest data from pollster RedBridge, it was revealed that the Coalition’s share of the primary vote had fallen to just 24% at a federal level.

Former federal Labor MP Craig Emerson has written an article in The New Daily slamming those arguing for lower, more sustainable levels of immigration.

The Greens are right about gas.

I long for a competent opposition.

Recall Labor’s Powering Australia Plan, released before the 2022 federal election, which claimed that it would cut NEM wholesale power rates by $11 per MWh (from $62 to $51) by 2025, resulting in lower retail power prices.

The larger the nation’s bureaucracy, the worse the policymaking. Data from the Australian Public Service Commission (APS) shows that the number of federal public servants increased by 7.4% in 2024-25, to a record high of 198,529.

There are some days when an economist can only shake his head in appalled wonder.

By Stephen Saunders The Coalition’s touted policy shifts enable Albanese to sail on with massive immigration, historic rental/housing unaffordability, and steepening power bills.

TechnologyOne boss Ed Chung has rejected claims that restrictive council planning red tape is the source of Australia’s structural housing shortage and crisis.

The Australian Financial Review recently reported that the cost of the NDIS continues to escalate.

What price Australian smelters?

How did a fundamental reform so critical to the national interest shift from the lunatic centre to the sensible fringe?

The Coalition has one more round of bloodletting before it can try to compete.

The poor economics of green hydrogen have led to widespread project cancellations across Australia and globally, including in China.

The policy process in Canberra is broken.

The rorting of Australia’s immigration system seems never-ending.

This is right, but for the wrong reason.