Despite going on an absolute rollercoaster ride during the pandemic, Australian per capita household spending growth remains anaemic.

In federal politics defined by small target government, the Coalition is struggling badly, potentially to the point of it ...

Under a series of agreements reached between the Australian and New Zealand governments, Kiwis can relocate to Australia and reside there indefinitely using the Special Category Visa (SCV). The SCV is ...

If a new Morgan Stanley study is any guide, it’s bad news all around for youth. The jobs they can do that are hostile to AI job displacement are the most toxic, most unpleasant, and most ...

Is the gold boom turning to a bust, or is this only the first phase of a much bigger cycle? The bull case depends on why you own gold and how you choose to hold it. The “what” and “how” matter as much ...

The managed decline of the Chinese economy continues as the property sector is hollowed out. Last year’s yawnulus didn’t touch the sides of the bottomless black hole. Coal consumption growth has ...

Recent data from CBA suggested that Australian households had lifted their spending in response to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) three interest rate cuts and modest growth in household ...

Almost every infrastructure expert opposed the Victorian government’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) because the price tag was excessive, the project lacked a business case, it failed any objective ...

The East Coast gas cartel is destroying your living standards by injecting ceaseless cost-push inflation into the headwaters of the supply chain for every business in the country east of WA. It is the ...

DXY is up and away! Euro toast. AUD is stuck on the treadmill from hell. CNY down. Gold still looks shaky to me as DXY firms. AI metals find a headwind. Big miners, big shooting star. EM toppy. Jun ...

Iron ore is riding high with the Pilbara killer one week away. Dynamics have shifted, as expected. Late last week, hot metal output fell to 2.36mt.  This has been low enough to reverse the steel ...

When Clare O’Neil was Australia’s Home Affairs Minister, she regularly lamented that Australia’s migration system was too temporary and was holding the nation back. “Today, really for the first time ...