Australian Politics

The federal government is expected to set new rules for energy use by AI data centres at Wednesday’s national cabinet meeting.

The business lobby and former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson have pushed back against suggestions that Australia should cut immigration, arguing that maintaining a strong migration program is essential to solving labour shortages and mitigating population ageing.

God almighty. Australia’s only hope of reducing immigration is the ‘racist’ party of Pauline Hanson, but now it’s fiddling the numbers. One Nation MP David Farley has revealed net overseas migration (NOM) would be about 230,000 a year under One Nation, or 5000 people higher than forecast in the federal budget.

War headlines today.

Data from the Australian ­Office of Financial Management (AOFM) shows that the nation’s total debt ­totalled $983.7 billion as of last Friday.

The VIC opposition LNP, which is odds-on to take government, has promised substantial changes to the VIC energy outlook.

The Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) was meant to accelerate wind, solar and battery investment by using taxpayer subsidies to underwrite revenue. Instead, only 14 of 89 supported projects have reached final investment decision (FID), and only one wind project has begun construction.

War headlines today: Trump’s announces an unprecedented “crushing economic operation” of more sanctions. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that Washington would only suffer more setbacks as a result of the “so-called ‘Economic D-Day’. China slammed the sanctions (and will presumably ignore them).

New Zealand citizens can work and live in Australia indefinitely as temporary migrants under the Special Category Visa (SCV).

Bloomberg has a piece today that should alarm every Australian.

Victoria has legislated a target to source 95% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2035.

Today’s Iran war headlines.

Recently Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson pledged that a Coalition state government would restore weekly rubbish collections if they win November’s state election.

Albo is, once again, listening to the wrong people on gas.

War headlines today.

The Teal federal member for Wentworth (covering Sydney’s wealthy eastern suburbs), Allegra Spender, has consistently advocated mass migration while also contradictorily demanding lower carbon emissions (for example, see here and here).

The AEMO provides a neat quarterly assessment of the NEM renewables rollout, giving us a snapshot of where things are at.

For decades, net permanent and long-term (NPLT) arrivals data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) provided a strong, reliable leading indicator of the direction of net overseas migration (NOM).

Today’s war headlines. Iran should “put up the white flag of surrender,” according to US President Donald Trump, since the two countries’ memorandum of understanding (MoU) ended on Monday.

Victoria’s state budget is drowning in debt, has the lowest credit rating in the nation, and risks further downgrades.

The weekend roundup of war news.

Housing Minister Clare O’Neil has defended the federal government’s 5% home deposit scheme amid renewed criticism from Coalition counterpart Andrew Bragg.