Australian Politics

According to three Australian surveys today, the country’s political landscape is divided, with Labour remaining still competitive on primary vote. Labour is at 31%, the Coalition is at 21%, One Nation is at 24% (down), and the Greens are at 13% (up) in Newspoll.

Albo the coward has a fight on his hands.

Whether you study the ancient history of Rome or you watch the Star Wars saga, you will know a little about the danger of the martial republics morphing into empires.

You would think that Australia should be able to have an informed, logical discussion about immigration.

Just when you thought it might be safe to assume he had a brain, no.

The Trumpgod is positive.

Since the 1970s oil shocks, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has mandated that members maintain 90 days of net crude oil reserves.

Australia’s gas fight is turning into a life-and-death brawl.

Day two of God Trump’s Iran blockade, and it is the worst it has been.

A week or so ago, Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi made the unexpected announcement that she would be travelling to Australia by the end of the month.

Tobacco excise has increased by over 60% since 2020, accounting for more than two-thirds of the legal cost of a pack of cigarettes.

There was a certain inevitability to it.

Amidst Labor’s consideration of NDIS reform, federal Greens leader Larissa Waters took to Twitter (now known as X) to make the argument that cutting the NDIS is “bad economics”.

They never learn.

WTF is wrong with this place!

The ALP is pretending to care about gas taxes.

JPM with another excellent note.

Has Albo grown a backbone at last?

The world-destroying POTUS is going back up the escalation ladder.

When the nation went to the polls at last year’s federal election, One Nation won just 6.4% of the primary lower house vote.

The supply side of Australia’s housing market continues to worsen.

JPM today tallies the damage to hydrocarbon output in the Gulf. Around 60 energy infrastructure assets in the Gulf have been impacted by drone and missile strikes in the nearly six weeks since the conflict started, with about 50 of them suffering varying degrees of damage (Figure 1 & 2).