ANZ says 2% and no more. Adjusted for population growth that is under 1%, ANZ models predict the economy may already be near balance, our output gap models suggest the Australian economy tightened during 2025. It’s even worse in the RBA’s suite of models from the May Statement on Monetary Policy (SMP).

Over the past several decades, Australia’s universities have been dumbed down by the flood of international students with poor English.

I write to you today from a secret location in a private hospital.

In March, I wrote the following commentary about the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) monetary tightening: Author Mark Twain once famously said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”.

Australia consistently ranks near the top in the world for household wealth.

On the 17th of June, One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson made her first-ever address to the National Press Club in Canberra.

Australia’s governments have conducted dozens of housing affordability inquiries over the years, including the following compiled by Dr Cameron Murray at Fresh Economic Thinking: Organisations like the Grattan Institute, the McKell Institute, AHURI, and others have published similar reports.

To date, Australia’s house price correction has been confined to the nation’s largest capital city markets – Sydney and Melbourne – where values have fallen by 3.0% (Sydney) and 3.6% (Melbourne) in 2026, according to Cotality.

Greens senator Pete Whish‑Wilson has issued a blunt warning to Australians to “wake the fk up”** amid One Nation’s dramatic surge in national polling, arguing that the rise may be linked to a coordinated online bot‑driven influence campaign.

It’s about time we did something about Prelude.

The costs of Australia’s rental crisis are often measured by the sharp decline in the rental vacancy rate, which is tracking at historical lows, alongside the strong rise in advertised rents.

She’s monoculturalised back into deep second, the idiot.

Steel prices are falling in the wake of the war on the prospect of resuming Gulf volumes.

By Alex Joiner, chief economist at IFM Investors For most of the last decade, Australians have been told a reassuring story: the economy is growing, unemployment is low, and we navigated the GFC, a pandemic, and a once-in-a-generation terms-of-trade shock better than almost anyone else.

In 2014, Ms Rosy Batty turned her son’s dreadful murder into a crusade against family violence reform.

Last week, I debated Matt Grudnoff from The Australia Institute live on ABC Radio National on the topic of immigration.

I cannot remember a time outside the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic when Australia’s auction market was this weak.

It’s just a gas reservation, not leprosy.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, regional property values across Australia have experienced explosive growth.

DXY paused overnight.

Thursday’s labour force release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) confirmed that Victoria is leading the nation in unemployment, with the state’s youth population being the most affected.