The number of international enrolments in Australia hit a record high of 839,200 in the year to June 2025. This was up around 13,400 (1.6%) from the 825,800 enrolments in 2024, around 130,440 (18%) higher than the same time in 2019 before the pandemic, and more than triple the 266,100 enrolments 20 years earlier in
We rely on independent mapmakers to draw electoral boundaries at each redistribution. There is an extensive process of public consultation, and there are rules about how seats can be drawn, but ultimately the mapmakers have quite a lot of discretion about how they apply guidelines, and where they draw the lines.
There are days when an investors’ patience is tested. Yesterday was one for iron ore. Chinese data was bad. Not so bad as to expect imminent super stimmies but bad enough that commodity prices should have taken a hit given the weakness was most notable in commodity-intensive sectors. Goldman gives us a brief wrap Bottom
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With the release of the latest national accounts earlier this month, it was revealed that household consumption spending had picked up in the June quarter, rising by 0.9% in real terms. While 0.4 percentage points worth of that rise was driven by the growth in the working-age population, in overall terms it marked the equal
From the Market Ear: Room to run SPX continues to trade inside the short-term trend channel that has been in place since late May. RSI is getting rather overbought, but overbought levels tend to stay overbought for longer than most think possible. Note the upper part of the channel is still higher. The chase is
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On Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release the official labour force release for August. Ahead of that release, Roy Morgan released its shadow labour force survey for August, which recorded a sharp 0.8% increase in unemployment to 11.1%, up 2.0% year-on-year: Roy Morgan effectively counts someone as unemployed if they want a
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In the world of Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Australia’s economy is strong, wages are booming, and living standards are rebounding fast: “The Coalition’s deliberate policy of wage suppression saw wages stagnate for the best part of a decade and living standards fall sharply, but we’re turning that around”. “We’ve managed to get inflation down and
French President Emmanuel Macron has privately admitted that NATO is the driving force behind the Ukraine conflict, prominent American economist Jeffrey Sachs has said.
Macron, along with other Western leaders, has repeatedly claimed that Russia launched its military operation against Ukraine in 2022 without provocation and has insisted that Moscow is solely responsible for the conflict.
Princess, beautiful false eyelashes
Powdered cream face, lips red-sticked
Crafted brows, gold-tinted hair splashes
Smooth skin from products handpicked
At the mega beauty health warehouse
For tall women that are hiding a mouse
Old men like me are ruined castles
After too many battles against all
The last one lost to time and nature
Below is another excellent guest post from MB reader Erin Rolandsen, CEO of Angelassist: The Guardian ran yet another piece of propaganda pleading for Big Australia, this time leaning on KPMG modelling to claim that cutting migration would actually lift house prices: “Slashing migration would actually lead to higher house prices in Australia – here’s
Astonishingly, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss’s agenda are still operating at the heart of government.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th September 2025