Hamas must release the remaining Israeli hostages or face certain destruction, US President Donald Trump has warned. He issued the threat after the talks about further prisoner swaps between Israel and the Palestinian armed group reportedly stalled.
By Stephen Saunders At times, Canberra is another world. From its Press Gallery comes this Financial Review bedtime-story of “best performer” Jim Chalmers with his “disdain for” inequality. The 28 February AFR gushes for the “smartest person” in the room and his enthralling (who among average Australians even cares?) insider skirmishes with the Reserve Bank.
The United States government confirms (February 2025) that the fake NGO USAID (US Agency for International Development), a CIA submarine that has financed all possible coups d'état, all "color revolutions" also directly financed "No less than six thousand journalists and seven hundred independent editorial offices".
The most recidivist liar in the parliament is Treasurer Jim “chicken” Chalmers. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the Australian economy has turned a corner after the strongest GDP growth figures since the pandemic, but economists say any recovery will be shallow as long as productivity remains stuck at 2016 levels and business investment stays tepid. The
Recent polling undertaken by SEC Newgate Australia suggested that Victorians do not see the $200 billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) as a high-priority project. The Orwellian Victorian Labor government has responded with propaganda, declaring the SRL “Australia’s largest housing project”: The gaslighting is unbelievable. The SRL is a rail project, and not a very good
It has been a busy few weeks in geopolitics. Late last week, we changed our portfolio allocation to pull back on stocks in our tactical funds. There are a broad number of reasons that I will discuss in podcasts and the performance report (later this week). The headline is that there is growing execution risk
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Credit Agricole lists the top ten priorities of the new yawnulus package. The ten major government work tasks for the year: Boost consumption and stimulate domestic demand by increasing household income and boosting consumption in the cultural, tourism & sports sectors. China will continue to support consumer goods trade-in programmes as well as investment in
The Australian Treasury is arguably the nation’s most potent lobbyist for Big Australia immigration. Treasury supports mass immigration because it only has two key performance indicators (KPIs) that are narrowly focused and do not align with the broader interests of Australians: Treasury only cares about the health of the federal budget, while ignoring impacts on
There has been a common story all over Australian politics of the major parties losing ground.
Simon Kuestenmacher, dubbed the “Stats Guy”, is a well-known immigration shill. For years, he has spread propaganda to support Big Australia. Last year, Kuestenmacher claimed that Australia’s skills shortages will worsen unless net overseas migration remains at an historically high level. Last month, Kuestenmacher claimed that “Australia is running out of workers and increasingly faces an