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Earlier this month, Tony Webber from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries warned of a clear consumer shift from battery electric vehicles (EVs) toward hybrids. “The Australian experience ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese indicated in January 2022—four months before the federal election—that his government would run a lower immigration policy if elected: In The Australian ...

In 2013, Labor Resources Minister Gary Gray made the fateful decision to allow the Gladstone liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals to be built without the requirement to reserve gas for domestic ...

Australia and New Zealand are experiencing protracted recessions. However, New Zealand’s recession is far deeper than Australia’s, as illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro.

The past several years have seen Australia’s rental market plunge into crisis following the importation of nearly one million net overseas migrants in only two years. This deluge of migrants hit ...

Last Friday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers quietly let slip Australia’s fifth Population statement, in which he and the Treasury constitute public enemy No. 1. Treasury’s Intergenerational Report ...

Wall Street is trying hard to get out of its recent funk on the back of the somewhat cool inflation prints with the NASDAQ up another 1% while the S&P500 pushed more than 0.7% higher to finish at ...

I have frequently maintained that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported $48 billion in education exports are inflated and vastly overstates the benefits of international students to ...