Australian Politics

The $0.221-per-litre fuel excise reduction is scheduled to end on 28 September.

Doggerel from Umair Ghori, Associate Professor, Bond University. AKA Professor Idiot: With the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) warning consumers of huge price hikes ahead, further calls for the federal government to pull its so-called “gas trigger” seem inevitable.

One of the revelations in the ACCC’s superb gas report yesterday is how advanced is the cartel behaviour of the Curtis Island gas exporters: • The upstream market is highly concentrated and dominated by the three LNG exporters and their associates.

It is one of the great ironies of today’s hopelessly corrupted ideological soup.

The thing is, cartels look all tough on the outside.

Here it comes: Anthony Albanese has set up a showdown with LNG companies after the consumer watchdog warned that gas exporters were putting jobs and businesses at risk from massive price hikes and ­record east coast shortages next year.

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) on Thursday handed down a scathing assessment of the former Coalition government’s $1.38 billion Building Better Regions Fund (BBRF).

A manic bond bid has emerged: The Australian cycle is lagging that of the US by a quarter or two.

Deary, deary, me: Dr Chalmers warned of a “confronting” update on the country’s economic and fiscal position, but his statement to the parliament painted a picture of a nation well-placed to transform challenges into opportunities.

Yesterday’s CPI has soothed market concerns about Australian inflation.

Earlier this month, Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) CEO Kelly O’Shanassy called on the Greens to support legislation enshrining the federal government’s 2030 43% emissions reduction target in law.

Albo’s energy crisis rolls on unabated today with power prices still up 500% since early this year: This will still deliver 6% to the CPI over the next year or more.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has confirmed that businesses that provide services to the federal government will come under the jurisdiction of its proposed national integrity commission.

Former Labor minister, Craig Emerson, often makes good sense.

Anybody hoping for sustainable policies from our teal independents should be taken aback by Independent Teal for Wentworth, Allegra Spender.

While the macro pet shop that runs Australia is in its usual poop-throwing uproar over the wrong thing, the economy is lining up for a catastrophic recession in 2023.

Would Australians be better off at war with Moscow than with Canberra as its capital?

For years, Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne and principal fellow at Melbourne University, Nick Reece, has vigorously supported the mass immigration ‘Big Australia’ policy.