Over the twelve years we’ve run this site, there have been many bad policy decisions, many stupid ideas, and an overwhelming number of greedy little men exploiting the nation. At various times, this ...

The SMH’s Editorial warned that Sydney risks “becoming a city with no grandchildren, but also one with no aged care workers, police officers, shop assistants or rubbish collectors”, due to the city’s ...

The Q2 national accounts and the latest labour force data showed that the public sector is powering the Australian economy, masking the deep private sector recession. Government spending hit a ...

Universities Australia, the peak body for the higher education sector, continues to pump out propaganda against the federal government’s efforts to lower international student numbers. Over recent ...

Asian share markets are all reflecting their central bank positions today with local stocks slipping as the RBA held fire and looks like doing 2/5ths of you know what for the next 12 months, while the ...

At today’s monetary policy meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the official cash rate on hold at 4.35%. It also flagged that rates would remain on hold for the foreseeable future. The ...

It has been a year since former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews proclaimed that the state would build 80,000 homes yearly for 10 straight years. Victoria has never built more than 70,000 new ...

Australia’s most industry-captured think tank, The Grattan Institute, must be laughing into its corporate sponsorship beard ...

A mighty debate is underway between foreign policy greybeards: Could the Alexander Downer who accuses me and Paul Keating of appeasement possibly be the same Alexander Downer who recently wrote in thi ...

Analysis by consulting firm EY suggests that the federal government will need to borrow about $90 billion in 2024-25 to finance its spending programs. This is $15 billion higher than the previous ...

Albo is the perfect combination of Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison. He does absolutely nothing while telling huge lies about how busy he is. To wit: Anthony Albanese has blasted the supermarket ...

The SMH’s deputy business editor, Clancy Yates, argues that consumers’ “frugal” response to the Stage 3 tax cuts is “music to the ears” of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and means that further ...