Australian Politics

The storm in a teacup about political donations comes from another era, and it’s time to move on.

For years, I have argued for a plebiscite on Australia’s future population.

Last year, the Albanese government signed two migration pacts with India that opened the path for decades of high immigration into Australia.

The 2024 Gallup World Happiness Report shows that across the Anglosphere – United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – happiness among younger cohorts is much lower than for the old, with these gaps emerging mostly since 2010.

Man, what is this guy doing in the ALP and, in of all places, the seat of Parramatta: Federal Labor MP Andrew Charlton has forked out $12m for a beachside ‘investment home’ to grow his real estate portfolio to around $42m.

AEMO with the news.

When Albo went to India in early 2023 and signed a bunch of shockingly bad agreements with Narendra Modi about labour mobility, we warned it was a catastrophic mistake.

Albo dills do love hypocrisy: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused the opposition of politicising diplomacy after he was asked by Paul Fletcher whether he would reassess Kevin Rudd’s role as ambassador to the US considering he called Donald Trump a “destructive president” in 2020.

Bernard Keane is all there is to read at the woked-up Crikey.

The AER has just backed Albo’s dills into a corner: As many as five million households face big increases in their power bills if taxpayer-funded ­energy subsidies do not extend into the next financial year, piling pressure on Jim Chalmers to ­announce new relief in the ­May 14 budget.

Penmeister is upset: Penny Wong has sent a clear message to China that Paul Keating has no influence over government policy ahead of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s meeting with the pro-Beijing former prime minister.

This is priceless.

Shortly before resigning as Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews announced a target to build 800,000 homes across the state over a decade, which requires 80,000 homes annually.

Generous financial incentives for apprentices and their ­employers are due to end in July, but the Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Australian Industry Group have urged the federal government to announce a two-year extension of the incentives in the May budget.

This is such a bad idea, both politically and economically.

It’s not quite as bad as feared from earlier reporting but it’s hardly lighting it up, either: The price for residential customers without controlled load in SE Queensland is $2,022 which is an increase of 2.7%.

Is Peter Dutton an idiot?

I noted earlier this month that Victoria was ground zero of Australia’s homelessness crisis.

Paul Xiting is on his knees again: An “unofficial” meeting between Xi Jinping’s top foreign policy ­adviser Wang Yi and Paul Keating could overshadow the Albanese government’s diplomatic agenda during the Chinese envoy’s high stakes visit to Australia this week.