Australian Politics

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.

Yesterday, Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) released a scathing report on ‘Operation Watts’, which was a joint operation with the state’s Ombudsman.

In late May, I praised Australia’s union movement for demanding that the minimum salary threshold for skilled migrants be set well above full-time average weekly earnings – i.e.

We all thought during the last election campaign that Anthony Albanese was playing a clever small target strategy to unseat a deranged Morrison Government.

Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) has released its report into the Victorian Labor Government, which has exposed “the hiring of unqualified people into publicly funded roles; using those roles to support factional work; nepotism; forging signatures; bullying behaviours; and attempts to interfere with government grants”.

In yesterday’s RBA minutes, the Albanese Government’s insane energy shock got a good airing: Ahead of the release of the June quarter Consumer Price Index (CPI) at the end of July, members noted that domestic inflationary pressures, including those outside of the labour market, continued to build.

Michele Bullock, Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), has just delivered a speech playing down the risks of aggressive rate hikes on Aussie mortgage holders.

I have previously labelled the Grattan Institute a stealth business lobby because of its rabid support for mass immigration alongside sounding like a mouthpiece for the property development industry.

The strangest energy crisis in history rolls on today as NEM prices soared yesterday: The cause of this bizarre crisis is well-known to readers.

A new report from the Grattan Institute has found that 7% of appointments to federal government boards are political appointees.

It hasn’t taken long for a change of government to embolden Australia’s stock of China grovellers.

The federal government’s national housing affordability plan will be discussed at the first meeting of state and federal housing ministers in almost five years.

Hoocoodanode that the boy from the projects would turn out to be such a worker’s nightmare?

During the election, and many times before it, PM Anthony Albanese made a great virtue of being the only son of a mother who lived on a pension in a government residence in a Sydney suburb.

Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) CEO Kelly O’Shanassy says the “climate wars” must end, and has urged the Greens to support legislation enshrining the federal government’s 2030 emissions reduction target in law.

The collapse of the National Electricity Market continues today, remarkable for both its causes and the total lack of reporting about it.

Transport experts have called for Dan Andrews’ Suburban Rail Loop – a 90 kilometre orbital rail system that would run underground between Cheltenham and Werribee at a cost of up to $120 billion – to be scrapped.

Yesterday saw the third-highest average price of electricity in Australian history: A month ago these same prices led the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to suspend the National Electricity Market (NEM).

This is what a failed market and failed regulator looks like: The Australian Energy Regulator has used its legislative powers to effectively confiscate gas that had been allocated to supply low fixed priced contracts with a large number of prudent enterprises led by the food processing industry.

Albo’s apocalyptic 800% energy shock runs unabated: Business has had just a small taste of the forthcoming doubling in utility bills and is already vomiting: Almost one in two employers say the east-coast energy crisis is having an impact on their business, according to a new survey.