Australian Politics

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is celebrating the tiny 0.4% decline in Australia’s transport emissions in the year to September 2025, which Bowen claims is “proof” that his government’s heavy subsidisation of battery electric vehicles (EVs) is working.

The ABC reported that only half of the 22,000 homes approved for construction in Western Sydney are proceeding to construction because there are not enough buyers able or willing to pay enough to cover construction costs.

Today’s national polling roundup suggests a modest movement following the Liberal leadership change, with the LNP improving slightly but not decisively reshaping the political landscape.

The Australian newspaper has used the Parliamentary Budget Office’s (PBO) budget tool to attack One Nation’s proposal to cap visas at 130,000 a year and aim for net-zero immigration.

For those old enough, the Sydney Olympics held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 was ‘peak Australia’.

Société Générale has weighed in on the forthcoming surge in global LNG supply. SG argues that an increase in the supply of LNG basically makes the world’s gas markets more connected. The US, European, and Asian (JKM) gas markets are all in the same hemisphere, so their seasonal patterns are pretty much the same.

By Salvatore Babones It’s back to school this week for most of Australia’s 1.5 million university students—and back to Canberra for Australia’s top 1000 education bureaucrats.

Former Treasury official turned director of Macroeconomics Advisory, Stephen Anthony, is one of the few economists who understands the pitfalls of Australia’s transition to an all-renewable energy future.

Anthony Albanese is a renowned backroom bovver boy.

With the resignation of former Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley from federal parliament, the newly minted leadership of Angus Taylor has been well and truly thrown in at the deep end.

This is some surge in the One Nation polling. Roy Morgan kicks us off. Victorian State Voting Intention: One Nation (26.5%) now ahead of ALP (25.5%) and L-NP Coalition (21.5%) on primary vote nine months before Victorian State Election.

In 2019, Four Corners aired a story titled Cracking Up, which revealed systemic issues with construction quality across the nation’s apartment market.

The AFR hates nothing more than a resolution to eastern Australia’s energy woes.

Is there anything our government does right? Having single-handedly created a monster black market valued at $5.6 billion (ranging from $4.1 billion to $6.9 billion), Canberra now wants to take a piece of the action.

Tobacco excise has climbed by around 60% since 2020 and now accounts for more than two-thirds of the legal cost of a packet of cigarettes.

The federal government’s latest State of the Environment (SOE) Report explicitly ranked population growth as having a “very high impact” on Australia’s biodiversity, outranking climate change.

It’s a lot of motherhood statements so far, but they are good ones, at least.

The Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) July 2023 Transmission Cost Report, which was released alongside updates to the 2022 Integrated System Plan (ISP), stated that estimated costs for some major transmission projects had increased by up to 100% compared with 2022 ISP estimates.

“Tiny” Tim Wilson is your new shadow treasurer.

My friend and colleague, LVO,  has done an excellent job of outlining how China and India have been commissioning large amounts of coal power.