The latest temporary visa data for Q2 2025 from the Department of Home Affairs shows that the total number of student visas on issue in Australia fell marginally to 592,342, down from 608,262 a year prior. However, the slight fall in temporary student visas on issue was offset by the rise in graduate visas, which
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Moscow believes that conditions for maintaining the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the US have “disappeared” and “no longer considers itself bound” by it, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Kremlin has urged caution in making public statements involving nuclear weapons, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he has ordered the redeployment of two American nuclear submarines.
Last week, Trump said the vessels had been moved to “the appropriate regions” as a precautionary measure. The announcement came via his Truth Social platform.
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) national accounts showed that Australia’s manufacturing sector comprised a record low share of GDP. In Q1 2025, manufacturing’s percentage of GDP decreased to 5.1%, down from 8.9% two decades ago and 15% in the mid-1970s. Australia has the smallest manufacturing share in the OECD, making it one of
This is becoming a series. The point is that public figures now routinely refuse to engage with counter-arguments. I have another one not yet written about Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt who did not respond to three polite emails from me. The latest intellectual weakling is Liz Allen, who is the go to pro-population growth demographer with media training (taking over from Peter MacDonald).
The fallout from Friday night’s terrible – or beautiful depending on your alternative facts – US jobs print has seen most Asian share markets come back slightly while Wall Street looks set to lick its wounds on the open tonight. The USD remains on the run after falling sharply against the majors on Friday night
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The ACTU has used its submission to the federal government’s upcoming economic roundtable to call for negative gearing and the 50% capital gains tax (CGT) concession to be restricted to a single property. The ACTU also wants a 25% “energy levy” to be imposed on LNG exports, for millionaires and family trusts to pay at
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Canada experienced a boom in temporary migrants over recent years, which helped drive up rental inflation to astonishing levels. As a result, temporary migrants hit a record 7% share of Canada’s population in mid-2024, which the government has promised to reduce to 5% by the end of 2027. Now spare a thought for Australia, whose
Anti-Americanism is an irrational bias. It’s a bit like racism. A prejudice against a people stemming from phobia, not reason. Australians suffer from it a lot, owing to the chip on their shoulder, none more so than Peter Lewis at The Guardian. That deal was to allow Australia to access US-UK nuclear technology delivering long-range