Australian Politics

Back in May, Laura Tingle ruthlessly attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s announcement that a future Coalition government would modestly cut immigration.

The Victorian government has repeatedly demonstrated that it cannot control the costs of its “Big Build” infrastructure projects.

We know Albo is an inveterate economic liar.

The Coalition recently proposed legislation to require firms in specific industries to divest assets if they are deemed to have abused their market power.

In the period up to and around the millennium, negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts were significant to property prices.

We often hear Big Australia shills claim that Australia’s population is still smaller than it would be if it were not for the pandemic.

Your nation is being destroyed by the gas cartel: Australia’s use of gas will be an election flashpoint as the Coalition pledges to streamline project approvals in a quid-pro-quo with companies to keep more of the fossil fuel for local use.

Victoria’s 90-kilometre Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is arguably Australia’s worst infrastructure project ever.

Over the twelve years we’ve run this site, there have been many bad policy decisions, many stupid ideas, and an overwhelming number of greedy little men exploiting the nation.

It has been a year since former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews proclaimed that the state would build 80,000 homes yearly for 10 straight years.

Australia’s most industry-captured think tank, The Grattan Institute, must be laughing into its corporate sponsorship beard over this: The Allan government will be hit with an angry campaign by gas advocates and plumbers who will target up to 50,000 voters a week amid plans to rid gas from Victorian homes.

Earlier this year, former Treasury economist Stephen Anthony encapsulated the Victorian government’s running of the state with the following remarks: “Victoria is on a suicide mission to record borrowing, just as global interest rates are about to hit 5%”.

The RBA is going to look pretty bloody stupid: An unexpected decline in government spending means Labor started the financial year in a better budget position than expected just months ago, giving it flexibility for more cost-of-living support in the mid-year budget update.

Newspoll suggests Labor is finished as a standalone political entity: TPP is a dead heat.

Taiwan knows a pathetic hypocrite when it sees it: Taiwan has urged Penny Wong to throw Australia’s support behind the self-governed territory’s bid for UN membership after the Albanese government backed Palestine’s admission to the global body.

Last week, Victoria’s bureaucrat responsible for implementing the government’s housing agenda, Jeroen Weimar, warned that Melbourne’s population is projected to balloon to more than 8 million people in only 25 years, meaning that Melbourne would “look fundamentally different in 25 years’ time”.

In September 2022, the newly elected Albanese government convened the Jobs & Skills Summit with the express purpose of turbo-charging net overseas migration into Australia.

Victoria already has the lowest credit rating and the worst debt profile in the nation.

The fake left might be the single most evil entity since WWII.

The Greens and the Coalition have become strange bedfellows on building-to-rent (BTR) housing.