Maiy Azize, Deputy Director of Anglicare Australia, has posted a strawman article at The Point (The Australia Institute’s new propaganda outlet), arguing that it is “wrong” to blame migrants for the ...

Markets are up as the wars in Ukraine and Iran are merging. On one side, Europe and the US are using Ukraine to attack Russia, while China is allied with the latter. On the other side, we have Russia ...

Earlier this month, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released an analysis purporting to show how changes in the volume ...

With the release of the latest inflation data from the ABS came relief that a rate rise at the August RBA meeting was now largely off the table. The RBA’s May forecasts in their latest Statement on ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the all-important Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month/quarter of June, which rose by 3.8% in the 12 months to June 2026, driven by housing, ...

On Wednesday, I presented expert evidence to the Senate Select Committee on Productivity in Australia. Below is my opening statement. In February 2023, former Labor Home Affairs minister, Clare O’Neil ...

Australia’s dwelling construction is already running well behind the Albanese government’s 1.2 million five-year target, as set out in the National Housing Accord. The target requires a construction ...

Goldman is getting dovish after yesterday’s softer-than-expected CPI. It notes that the quarterly trimmed mean, the RBA’s preferred indicator of underlying inflation, increased by 0.81% quarter over ...

Houthis hit another Saudi oil tanker, making it three in as many days. Demands toll for Bab al-Mandab. Saudi bombed Iranian militia in Iraq. Iran attacked US forces in Jordan (first time it has struck ...

Mt (100%) shipped to China during the quarter (H1: 2.2 Mt). The first customer collections were completed in April following tertiary crushing in China, with Q2 sales totalling 0.4 Mt (100%) and ...

I’ve often noted that the market likes to test a new Fed chairman with some hawkish expectations. Today, Kevin Warsh failed, delivering for Trump instead. The Committee decided to maintain the target ...

The problem with the anti-renewable energy argument is that it is a weaving, bobbing, amorphous line of thinking that changes when you try to pin it down. I’ve tried to do all in one arguments, but I ...