Australian Politics

Recall that failed Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil, who drove the rental crisis by overseeing the largest immigration spike in the nation’s history, was appointed Australia’s Housing Minister because she excels at spin.

There’s a great piece at Bloomberg today on how Japan is destroying Australia using our own gas against us: Every six hours, somewhere in the world, a shipment of liquefied natural gas controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port.

On 12 December 2023, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan ignored expert advice and signed the first tunnelling contract to build the $200 billion, 90-kilometre Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) to nowhere.

Unbeknownst to all of Australia, the Australia Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has its finger on the answer to everything: Favorable weather conditions toward the end of winter and reduced gas generation demand have allowed Iona to start refilling its storage capacity.

Victoria is the capital of homelessness in Australia.

Treasurer Jim “chicken” Chalmers, the wholesale wrecker of Australian living standards does not have a leg stand on when criticising others: Jim Chalmers has ruled out the Greens’ $514bn “Robin Hood tax” on big businesses, accusing them of “making up numbers”.

Ponzi Pallas, the Victorian Treasurer, has spent many years making Victorians poorer: The Victorian treasurer says the federal government’s deep cuts to international university student numbers will devastate his state’s economy from next year.

Honestly, it’s like this country had a lobotomy in recent years.

Tony Wood is a former Origin Energy executive turned energy think tank analyst at the Grattan Institute, which Origin Energy sponsors.

The fake Greens are at it again, attacking the federal government for daring to oppose caps on international students, which have ballooned to obscene numbers.

This is insane: The Coalition will go the next election with budget and off-­budget savings of close to $100bn in a “back to basics” inflation-fighting agenda that will see a raft of Labor spending programs axed in a bid to arrest a structural decline of the government balance sheet.

Nothing can save a nation that is this stupid and corrupt: One of Australia’s top manufacturers, explosives maker Orica, said high gas prices were a critical issue for the nation amid concerns supply shortages would damage the economy with little sign of significant new volumes emerging.

Premier Jacinta Allan’s disastrous decision to sign the contracts to build the first phase of the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) continues to punish Victorians.

This is completely bizarre.

How to steal a nation’s energy in two easy steps.

Victoria has emerged as Australia’s homeless epicentre.

The higher education lobby’s screeching over the federal government’s planned modest caps on international student numbers has reached fever pitch.

The local gas spot price spent one day below Albo’s calamitous $12Gj price floor before rebounding: Prices have begun to fall for electricity.

Alan Kohler published an article this week arguing that the massive rise in immigration-driven population growth over the past two decades has driven Australia’s housing crisis.