Australian Politics

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.

There is a global gas glut looming over the next five years as US and Qatari volumes surge into seaborne markets.

Another day, another poor opinion poll for Peter Dutton and the Coalition. This week’s Roy Morgan poll shows Labor’s two-party support lifting to 54.5% (up 1% from a week ago), nine percentage points ahead of the Coalition’s 45.5% (down 1% from a week ago).

The Greens have performed best in the Australian Conservation Foundation’s (ACF) pre-election scorecard, receiving a rating of 98% for their environment and climate change policies.

So says Labor legend Jenny George.

On Monday, I spoke to Ben Davis on Brisbane Radio 4BC Mornings to unpack the housing policies announced by Labor and the Coalition over the weekend.

Steve Austin from ABC Radio Brisbane interviewed me about the Greens’ housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather’s claim that immigration does not negatively impact housing affordability.

This election campaign has turned into a dumpster fire for Peter Dutton and the Coalition.

Over the weekend, we saw both sides of politics ‘jump the shark’ on housing policy.

Victoria has the nation’s highest per capita debt and the lowest credit rating.

It is hard to believe that the Dutton-led Coalition now faces the prospect of losing seats at the upcoming federal election. The combination of Donald Trump’s trade war and policy own-goals like promising to ban working from home (since revoked) has sent Coalition support plummeting.