Australian Politics

There is no substitute for sanctimonious greed.

Victoria is the nation’s most indebted state with the lowest credit rating.

Recently, a reader shared with me the statistics on the level of prosecutions against fraudsters within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The internal reporting of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), the government authority overseeing the scheme, found that in the June quarter of 2024, there were more than 7,000 tip-offs alleging fraud.

This week, two polls were released showing that Australians overwhelmingly want significantly lower immigration.

It may be that we don’t need China to bully us into an Albo tyranny.

The explosion of artificial intelligence has triggered one of the largest capital expenditure booms in history.

An MB reader has sent this excellent proposal for resolving the East Coast gas crisis by shutting down GLNG without creating sovereign risk.

It is critical to understand Australia’s immigration policy in a historical context. During the first 60 years following World War II, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per year, with only two years exceeding 150,000.

Bureaucracy and waste are drowning the state of Victoria.

The Queensland government has significantly undermined the Albanese government’s ambitious 62% to 70% emissions reduction target by 2035 by extending the lifespan of the state’s coal-fired generation until the mid-2040s or later.

There is justice in the world, after all.

In an address to the National Press Club, BlueScope CEO Mark Vassella warned that Australia risks following the United Kingdom’s industrial decline if the federal government fails to fix the gas market.

The news of the week that Deloitte had somehow managed to get AI to invent references in a report, for which they harvested 400 thousand dollars, should be a warning for all of us.

Recall that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivered a speech late last month to the UK Labour Party conference, whereby he vowed to “defend democracy itself” alongside “my mate”, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Why is everything to do with energy in Australia so stupid?

Recently, many Canadian commentators have noted that there was a growing gender imbalance in their nation’s younger demographics, well beyond what could be considered normal.

The great cooktop distraction is back.

The federal government has effectively provided Victoria with a financial bailout by delivering the state around $7.5 billion in extra GST revenue over two years, meaning it will receive $1.07 for every dollar raised in 2025-26.

A national interest policy process is one in which a well-informed government determines its policy settings via a specialist area of the bureaucracy.

A new report from Oxfam claims that the capital gains tax (CGT) discount and negative gearing are “disproportionately” benefiting Australia’s wealthiest, fuelling the housing affordability crisis and inequality, and harming the federal budget.

The NSW government has been criticised for blocking Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for access to taxpayer-funded reports on the likely impact of closing down coal-fired power stations on electricity prices.

One of the often repeated tropes of social media discourse or backyard BBQ political debates is the idea that the election victories that Labor has won in Victoria and federally are indicative of the public holding a high level of support for their leadership.

In a speech to the National Press Club, BlueScope CEO Mark Vassella warned that Australia risks following the UK’s industrial decline if the federal government fails to fix the gas market.

The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) has consistently flagged high loan-to-valuation ratio (LVR) mortgage lending as a risk area. For example, in December 2014, the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) released guidance stating that “ADIs should not undertake large volumes of, or increase their share of, higher-risk lending.

In the popular imagination, Australia is often viewed as a sophisticated 21st-century economy, comparable to any number of advanced developed economies.