Australian Politics

Bondi was horrific, but it was not this.

With less than five weeks to go until the South Australian election, the Opposition Liberal Party has announced a stamp duty concession to help older homeowners downsize.

Apparently, Lenore Taylor, editor at the fake left Guardian, has jumped off the ship.

On Thursday, I was interviewed by Mark Levy at Radio 2GB regarding Labor’s changes to the taxation of earnings on large superannuation balances.

Following the resignation of former Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley, her rural New South Wales seat of Farrer will go to a byelection.

The new opposition leader, whom we didn’t even bother reporting on, failed day one.

This week’s news that Sussan Ley has been rolled by Angus Taylor has largely been met by yawns.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday released monthly overseas arrivals and departures data for December, which continued to show strong growth in the number of people arriving and intending to stay in Australia for 12 months or more.

The Albanese government last year dumped its controversial proposal to tax unrealised gains on superannuation balances above $3 million without indexation.

AGL Energy is the latest to warn that Albo’s gas dog’s breafast is delaying critical investment needed to prevent supply shortfalls later this decade.

When your leadership challenge turns into a joke before it even starts, it’s not a good look.

It is almost certain that the Albanese government will make changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the upcoming May federal budget.

In August last year, Health Minister Mark Butler set a target to reduce NDIS spending growth from its current annual rate of 8% to 5-6%.

Back in 2022, one week after Albo was elected, I rang the gloriously handsome Andrew “Lord” Charlton and briefed him on the incoming gas catastrophe his government faced.

Australia’s federal budget uses two main deficit measures, and they differ because they treat certain transactions differently—especially asset sales, loans, and off‑budget funds.

As usual, this is all sound and fury signifying nothing.

The world’s most unpleasant nation, and the Albanese government’s best friend, has once again bared its fangs, not to mention its glass jaw.

In late December, Melburnians were warned that they could soon face severe water restrictions following the steepest annual decline in water storage levels since the Millennium Drought.

The ostensible problem with East Coast gas supply is that it has no competition.

I absolutely stand by the right of Australians to protest.

With the release of the latest Newspoll, One Nation’s rise in the world of Australian federal politics has been emphatically confirmed, putting to bed any ideas that this was a temporary boost due to polling seasonality or the immediate aftermath of the Bondi terrorist attack.

The Crime Statistics Agency’s 2024-25 crime statistics revealed that Victoria saw a record high of 483,000 criminal incidents over the financial year.

I have not posted about our old mate Drew Pavlou for three years, but he has earned another mention.

In 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its Population Projections 2002 to 2101, which contained a baseline (Series B) forecast for Australia’s population of 26.4 million by 2051, based on an assumed net overseas migration (NOM) of 100,000 annually.