Australian Politics

Australia’s draconian social media ban for under-16s has won praise from European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at the United Nations, who labelled it “plain common sense”.

BMI—A Fitch Solutions Company—has published an analysis of the federal budget, which forecasts that Australia’s budget balance will fall into deficit in FY2025 (July to June) as “the government increases spending in response to the persistent cost-of-living crisis”.

South Australia is regarded as the nation’s leader in renewable energy, with the highest penetration of wind and solar generation in the country.

It is essential to understand Australia’s immigration policy within its historical context. During the first 60 years following World War II, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per year, with only two years exceeding 150,000.

Earlier this month, Ex-NSW Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner for Japan and Korea Michael Newman lambasted the size of Australia’s bureaucracy, claiming we had one of the world’s largest number of public sector workers per head of population.

As infighting within the Liberal Party continues over the party’s leadership and its stance on Net Zero, things continue to deteriorate.

Neither politicians nor supporters of a Big Australia immigration policy acknowledge the significance of water.

Despite multiple setbacks, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, founder of Fortescue Metals Group, has remained one of the world’s most prominent champions of green hydrogen.

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) receive significant subsidies in Australia. The federal government loses more than $500 million in tax revenue each year as a result of the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for BEVs.

Australia is beginning to resemble George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth from the novel 1984.

Australia’s government and media want us to believe that climate change is the most serious environmental concern. They say that Australia must reach its net zero promises to avoid “dangerous climate change”, ignoring the reality that Australia is a tiny (1%) emitter on the global stage.

In the years since the pandemic arrived, Melbourne has gone from having one of the strongest economies in the nation and being a drawcard for internal migration to the butt of jokes and criticism.

With the implementation of the Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers just over a week away, social media is filled with promotional material from the Albanese government crowing about how their achievement will help prospective home buyers.

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten warned that Australia’s declining economic complexity is the single biggest threat to national security.

In the final climactic battle between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Anakin says to Obi-Wan: “You turned her (his wife Padme) against me!” “You have done that yourself!” Obi-Wan replies.

As the news of political and ideological division currently defining much of the discourse in the United States continues to filter in from across the Pacific, one is often left wondering to what degree Australia will face similar divisions.

‍One of Indian Albo’s greatest policy lies is that Labor diplomacy is reaping benefits across the Indo-Pacific.

To say that things have gone wrong for the Coalition after taking a 52% to 48% two-party preferred lead into the run-up to May’s federal election would be an understatement.

Luke Yeaman, Chief Economist at CBA, penned a report on the Australian federal budget, which “is projected to return to deficit over the next decade”.

The climate change pantomime has taken an interesting new twist, with low-lying Pacific Nations lambasting Australia over its approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project extension.

Teal independents continue to run interference for Big Australia mass immigration. In 2022, Zali Steggal, a Teal member from Warringah (which includes Sydney’s rich northern beaches), supported a large increase in immigration to combat labour shortages.

Below is another excellent guest post from MB reader Erin Rolandsen, CEO of Angelassist and author of beyondtheragemachine.substack.com:  Cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer once said: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” If that is true, what, then, do we make of Australia’s systems?

As the rise of populist major party candidates and upstart political parties continues from London to Tokyo, many have been left wondering why Australia hasn’t seen the rise of a new third alternative.

On Monday, Shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Hastie threatened to quit the opposition front bench unless Coalition leader Sussan Ley abandons the party’s commitment to a net zero emissions target.