The recent housing finance data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that over the December quarter of ...

A recent review of freedom of information (FOI) requests called into doubt the Albanese government’s commitment to transparency. The Centre for Public Integrity, an independent research agency, ...

Yesterday’s job ads data made for confused reading for the RBA. Job ads are rebounding strongly. After a robust 5.2% m/m increase in January, Indeed Australian Job Ads increased 3.2% m/m in February.

DXY is rising faster than an Iranian SAM. And why not. The Iran war is bad for all energy importers, including Europe, Japan, and China. It is good for US shale. AUD held up, but for how long? Oil and ...

Ross Elliott of The Pulse wrote an outstanding article about the administrative bloat that has enveloped Australia’s planning industry. Elliott notes that lawyers he has spoken with told him “they did ...

Apparently, it takes at least two debilitating energy wars to convince the Albanese government to do something about the East Coast gas export cartel. Perhaps the number is infinite. Let us recall tha ...

Since U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran kicked off on Saturday, the focus of the world has once again turned to the Middle East, as concerns continue to build over how this chapter of the region’s ...

Over the COVID-19 pandemic and the years immediately following, there was a strong migration from Victoria to Queensland. According to the most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) population ...

Following the announcement of its East Coast gas reservation policy before Christmas, which plans to force Queensland LNG exporters to divert 15–25% of new supply into the domestic market, the ...

The ferrous complex rolled on Friday as we head to the Two Sessions. Clearly, not much hope for stimmies China’s total steel inventory is a little below last year. Port inventories of iron ore fell ...

Following a fresh wave of bombing by the American madman and Israel on Iran, retaliation suggests wider implications for the region than previous rounds. With Supreme Leader Al Khamenei dead, there is ...

According to the latest Newspoll, the new LNP leadership has stemmed the bleeding but not much else. This result has to be very concerning. Labor is down one point to 32%, One Nation is unchanged at ...