Domain’s house price reported a median house price for Sydney of $1,645,444 at the end of 2024, more than double the $811,000 median price in 2014. The following table illustrates that Sydney’s median house price is around $580,000 higher than Canberra, Australia’s second most expensive capital city. A recent CBA analysis revealed that Sydney’s housing
In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be seen on and off hitting the electric New York City night life especially at glamour/hard partying disco dive Studio 54.
Pepe Escobar: Dancing to Trump’s Disco Inferno
Asian stock markets are barely positive in reaction to the slightly hawkish tone the Fed took last night at the latest FOMC Meeting, with volatility still looking through the increasingly isolationist and tariff based US trade policies. The USD was pushed slightly higher overnight and has held on to most of those gains going into
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In generations past, Australian businesses trained their workers. It was common for an Australian to finish high school or university and then take up an internship or graduate role at a company to gain vital skills and experience. This century has witnessed the decline of internships and graduate programs across Australian companies. In the mid-2000s,
Late last year, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) chairman John Lonsdale warned that the number of Australian households experiencing severe mortgage stress had nearly doubled since 2016 and was trending higher amid the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) aggressive monetary tightening. Lonsdale added that Australians are overexposed to mortgage debt. “Residential mortgages make up two-thirds
Yesterday I recounted the shocking history of Grattan Institute’s destruction of Australia’s energy transition, sponsored all along by the East Coast gas cartel. Today it returns to finish the job. In the time since then, gas prices in Australia have stayed high, and a further problem, evident for more than a decade, has now crystallised