Australian Politics

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton used his budget reply address to promise a reduction in net overseas migration and a prohibition on temporary visa holders purchasing established property.

Great news as due to “low demand,” Qantas will stop operating its Sydney-Shanghai flights on July 28.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has taken a leaf out of former Treasurer Peter Costello’s book and says he would like to see Australians have more children.

As predictable as the dawn.

The Albanese government’s net overseas migration (NOM) forecasts have consistently undershot the actual outcomes.

On Saturday morning’s interview with Luke Grant on Radio 2GB, I took the government to task over the two biggest policy failures crippling the nation: energy and immigration.

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas appears to have finally discovered the notion of cost control.

The Guardian is The Greens propaganda sheet, and sometimes this comes with a few problems, such as this: Greens say government has ‘utterly caved to fossil fuel lobby’ with new gas strategy The Greens environment spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, says the government’s new gas strategy shows they have “utterly caved in to the fossil fuel lobby”.

Let me summarise Resource Minister Mad King’s vision for gas for everything: Australia’s future gas strategy aims to support energy reliability, manufacturing, and industry, as well as tens of thousands of jobs in the manufacturing sector.

The Australian’s Judith Sloan has backed former Australian Treasury official Stephen Anthony’s prediction that Victoria now may require a bailout from the federal government.

Long-term failed Victorian Treasure Tim “Ponzi” Pallas rolls out an effigy of himself (lest somebody set it on fire) and presses play on a recorded budget message unchanged in years.

This is going to be the mea culpa of a lifetime.

It’s about as clear as mud today.

You want to make friends with your enemies; don’t complain when they use your resources to attack you: Anthony Albanese has confirmed the government have made “appropriate diplomatic representations” following a Chinese fighter jet dropping flares dangerously close to an Australian Navy helicopter over the weekend.

We are still in shoulder season Albo’s gas cartel is steadily pushing gas spot prices through the $12Gj contract price cap: Electricity prices are following, as usual.

Former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr plans to sue New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters over controversial remarks made on radio during a recent debate over the Advanced Nuclear Weapons Enhanced Cooperation (AUKUS) pact.

By Stephen Saunders Albanese’s population and environment policies riff on UN policy.

The Queensland Government has announced a $1000 energy bill discount under a $2.5 billion government package to ease the cost of living relief.

Australian gas producers are calling for an immediate policy reset due to Labor’s market interventions and regulatory uncertainties, which are undermining investor confidence and delaying new supplies.

Ross Gittins writes that Australia’s economy is expected to be hit by a meteor within a decade or two, with the world stopping buying fossil fuels and declaring it worthless.

The Future Made in Australia Act, a key element of the government’s budget centrepiece, will see changes designed to attract foreign capital and boost economic prosperity.

Victoria is the country’s most indebted state, with the lowest credit rating.