Australian Politics

The Scanlon Foundation’s index of social cohesion in Australia came out last month and was the worst ever recorded.

The parasites are fixed upon the host: Top energy companies have raised the alarm on official calculations used to guide electricity bills, warning their customer ­profit margins have sunk to decade lows and soured the appetite of the biggest operators to invest money in the sector.

Albo the Disaster always prefers a good culture war to actual policymaking: The US has announced the creation of an enhanced naval protection force operating in the southern Red Sea in an attempt to ward off mounting attacks from Yemen’s rebel Houthis on merchant shipping.

Former Prime Minister John Howard performed a ‘bait-and-switch’ on the Australian people whereby he scapegoated and slammed the door shut on the relatively small number of refugees arriving into Australia by boat all the while stealthily shoving open the door to economic migrants arriving by plane.

Albo the Disaster started the year with an election-demolishing 55-45 lead in then polls but he ends it with virtually no lead at all.

The Albanese government last week announced minor tweaks to Australia’s migration system, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claimed would bring immigration back to “sustainable levels”: Our migration system is broken and we have a plan to fix it.

This is mad: Victorians can expect rapid and sharp rises in gas bills within four years as the local supply hits a cliff and the state uses more gas than it produces, with a new state government report calling for 2 million households to urgently switch to electricity.

When will policy makers recognise that Australia’s major cities cannot cope with the extreme population projections of the federal government? Take Sydney, for example, which is Australia’s largest city and one of two key landing points for migrants (the other being Melbourne).

One of the justifications for the Albanese government running the biggest immigration program in the nation’s history was that Australia needed to “catch-up” on immigration supposedly “lost” over the pandemic.

On Tuesday night, I was interviewed by Sky News’ Steve Price on Wednesday’s MYEFO and Labor’s fake immigration cuts: Below are key extracts.

The Australian Greens used to care about the impacts of population growth on Australia’s natural environment.

They’ve gone and done it. Against the pleas of all and sundry, the Victorian government has signed its first major contract pertaining to former Premier Daniel Andrews’ $200 billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) boondoggle.

This morning I was interviewed by Luke Grant on Radio 2GB’s Morning Show whereby I discussed the Albanese government’s migration reforms, which I labelled a “nothing-burger”: Below are key extracts from the interview.

There is nothing the AFR likes better than monopoly: Santos investors are baulking at a low-premium merger deal with Woodside Energy, even with the drawcard of creating an $80 billion Australian oil and gas “champion” with clout on the global LNG stage.

Everybody with a modicum of common sense and not captured by vested interests would recognise that the surge in net overseas migration (NOM) is behind the record tightening of the rental market and the surge in rents.

The mainstream media was cock-a-hoop over the weekend over the alleged cut to Australia’s immigration intake that is scheduled to be announced today by the Albanese government.

Albo the Disaster is doing more work for the CCP.

The Victorian Government is a disgrace.

This site has regularly lamented the politicisation and loss of independence of Australia’s public service.