Australian Politics

Last month, the RBA annual report revealed that the two top executives of the Bank received a pay rises of more than 10%: “During his final year as governor, Philip Lowe took home $1,147,465 in base pay, bonuses, superannuation and other payments.

Earlier this week, Treasurer Jim Chalmers effectively blamed the states and the former federal government for fueling inflation via their infrastructure construction programs: “I do think we’re going to need to make some difficult decisions about the infrastructure pipeline”.

The fake left is up to its usual tricks of endlessly debating while it ruins the lives of the vulnerable it purports to care about: A Brisbane Greens proposal to slap investors who hike rents with huge tax bills has been met with scepticism by economists and panned by the party’s political opponents.

Albofltion is out of control thanks to a collapsed border with India.

Recidivist China apologist, James Curran, is ecstatic about Albo China grovelling: The prime minister’s arrival in Shanghai followed the script.

Anybody hoping for a saner immigration policy from the Coalition would be deeply disappointed in leader Peter Dutton’s speech to India’s Jindal Global University on Friday.

What a circus Treasurer Jim “Chicken” Chalmers has made of the RBA.

Let’s have more of this.

Treasurer Jim “Chicken” Chalmers is a major liability for the government. We already know he is the worst modern treasurer for living standards in record time (and that’s saying something).

Albo is crawling to Beijing today, intent on celebrating 50 years of Labor grovelling and brown paper bags.

Local governments across Western Sydney have traditionally been the dumping ground for migrants.

Ah yes, go woke, go broke: Qantas has slumped behind arch-rival Virgin on all measures of brand trust, pride, “love”, value and transparency, damning confidential figures presented to senior managers show, revealing the extent of damage to the airline’s reputation this year.

A decade ago, we debuted the Spruikbot Telephunken U-47 to explain Australia’s politico-housing complex: The Spruikbot has stood the test of time and remains as true today as it was a decade ago.

Here is what UBS had to say about the latest visa numbers: Temporary visas in Sep spike to record >2.6mn, or ~10% of the population A key factor supporting the consumer is the record boom of migration, which is lifting population growth.

Deary me.

On 18 December 2019, Anthony Albanese tweeted the following in relation to then Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Fast forward four years and Opposition leader Peter Dutton could Tweet exactly the same about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The Economist has a terrific cover story this week on the role of America in the world.

Going into last year’s federal election, Anthony Albanese gave the impression that Labor would run a lower immigration program if elected: “His “train locals first” push comes a month after the Labor leader refused to back the government’s plan to bring permanent migration back to 160,000 a year”, The Australian reported in January 2022.

The Treasurer of Lies is back with more: While the majority of economists now view another rate increase as almost certain, Dr Chalmers downplayed the possibility the RBA board would be forced to raise the cash rate to 4.35 per cent from 4.1 per cent when it meets on November 7.

Given the extraordinary ineptitude of the Albanese Government, this did not come sooner enough: LNP ahead 50.5 versus ALP 49.5 ALP ahead in VIC, and WA LNP ahead in QLD.

Here is the chart that defines the failure of the worst treasurer in modern Australian history: Treasurer Jim Chalmers has destroyed fifteen years of Australian household purchasing power growth in just eighteen months.

Victoria is drowning in debt as a result of the Andrews Labor Government’s nine years of financial incompetence.