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
The iron ore jaws remain wide. The news from the NPC is steel output cuts. The world’s largest steelmaker and consumer will “promote restructuring of the steel industry through output reduction”, according to an official report on Wednesday. “We will introduce policies and measures for resolving structural problems in key industries and end the phenomenon
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The latest net permanent and long-term arrivals data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that 446,504 net migrants arrived in 2024, slightly less than the record 449,813 that arrived in 2023. While net arrivals declined since March 2024 compared to 2023, each month in 2024 was higher than in the corresponding month in
The federal Labor Party announced its Powering Australia Plan in late 2021, promising to cut National Energy Market (NEM) wholesale power costs by $11 per MWh, from $62 to $51, by 2025. Labor bragged that its Powering Australia Plan will save Australians $275 on residential electricity bills in 2025 and $379 in 2030. According to
The Market Ear on the dead cat. NASDAQ – “oversoldest” NASDAQ has not been this oversold since August last year. Note that RSI at these levels, with NASDAQ trading below the 200-day as it touches the big trend line, has only occurred twice before since the great bull started. Source: Refinitiv “Netted out” Gross leverage
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The US is prepared to go to war with China if necessary, the Pentagon has announced, following Beijing’s threat of tariff retaliation in what marks another escalation in an ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
Tropical Cyclone Alfred is now forecast to hit Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the NSW Northern Rivers on Friday, with fears it is slowly strengthening into a category 3 system, unleashing winds greater than 150 km/h. The impacted regions are expected to experience major flooding, and up to 400 mm of rain is predicted. The
In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War.
Last week, I narrated the events surrounding the Ukrainian conflict, emphasizing that French President Emmanuel Macron, as brilliant as he is, was incapable of adapting to the changes in the world.
This week, I am taking up the same elements, and many others that followed, to show that the divorce of Europeans from each other and of the EU from the United States has become a reality.
DXY goes “CRACK”. EUR to the moon! AUD follows EUR but not fast enough to catch it. Lead boots held up. Amusingly, oil is going to pull that drill, baby, drill. Goldman will make you pay for the energy transition as copper rises DXY reflation. Big miners false dawn. EM up. Junk firmer. Yields higher
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