MacroBusiness

Australia sacrificed to preserve Santos

Wow, man, we are pwned. Santos-backed Gladstone LNG has secured a reprieve from the Albanese government’s domestic gas reservation scheme, shiel…

NSW budget faces massive stamp duty hit

According to EY’s annual State Budget Monitor, the eastern state governments are especially reliant on stamp duty receipts, which comprise 17% o…

Australian unemployment kept lower by Only Fans

Since the Albanese government came to power, one metric it has pointed to most as a sign of its economic management is the nation’s unemployment…

China has run out of patience with Trump

When Tehran first throttled maritime trade through the Strait of Hormuz in early March, oil market analysts counted the limited number of days u…

Australia has lost the ability to build things

Australia’s construction pipeline is bigger than ever. Following decades of mass immigration, Australia is suffering from a chronic housing shor…

Why One Nation leads on immigration and skills

Australia has experienced the biggest migration boom in the nation’s history. According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data…

Why is Scotty from Marketing attacking gas reservation?

Australia has long had a problem with what to do with former prime ministers, but it appears Scotty from Marketing takes the cake. Former prime…

Data centre power peace breaks out, but will you pay?

A peace deal has broken out in Australia’s conflict over power for data centres. The Albanese government has reached a settlement with Queenslan…

AEMO warns on energy shortages after coal closures

I have warned repeatedly that Australia’s energy system is on a collision course with physics and reality. To recap, coal is currently the backb…

More crocodile tears for Australian renters

Last month, Maiy Azize, Deputy Director of Anglicare Australia and a spokesperson for Everybody’s Home, posted a strawman article at The Point (…

Battery boom crushes gas cartel in the nick of time

A new global gas shock is underway as Qatari blockages have left Europe short of gas for the winter. LNG prices in Asia and Europe are now at th…

Teal Allegra Spender gets her migrants

The Teal federal member for Wentworth (covering Sydney’s wealthy eastern suburbs), Allegra Spender, has consistently advocated mass migration wh…

What has slowed renewables in Australia?

The AEMO provides a neat quarterly assessment of the NEM renewables rollout, giving us a snapshot of where things are at. In short, the major re…

Victoria: too many bureaucrats, too few front line staff

Victoria’s state budget is drowning in debt, has the lowest credit rating in the nation, and risks further downgrades. Moody’s recently warned t…

Victoria is mentally ill

That cackling sound you can hear is Dan Andrews. After the former premier took over as chair at the youth mental health service, Orygen, which h…

Data centres increase Australia

The spurious claim that intermittent, weather-dependent energy is best to power data centres has been thoroughly debunked by the operators of su…

There is no justification for parent visas

The AFR recently produced the following chart showing the massive backlog of parent visas awaiting permanent residency: In the 2024-25 financial…

Tanya Plibersek gaslights first home buyers

When Tanya Plibersek was Australia’s housing minister under the Rudd government, Labor relaxed FIRB rules for foreign buyers, including: Allowin…