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ANU gaslights again on immigration’s housing impacts

April 10, 2025 - 12:30 -- Admin

The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda. Propagandists like “Dr Demography” Liz Allen are regular mouthpieces on the pro-Big Australia migration circuit, as are the ANU Migration Hub’s Peter McDonald and Alan Gamlen. Now, a new immigration propagandist has emerged from ANU – Ben Phillips from ANU’s

RBA acknowledges that excessive immigration is killing productivity

April 10, 2025 - 12:00 -- Admin

Australia’s labour productivity performance has ranked among the lowest in the world. The following chart shows that the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) projections for productivity growth have been far too optimistic over the past decade. Last month, the RBA’s Head of Economic Analysis, Michael Plumb, tacitly admitted that Australia’s mass immigration policy has eroded

How Labor robbed Australians of our own gas

April 10, 2025 - 11:30 -- Admin

In the early last decade, the federal Labor government made the fateful decision to approve the export of liquified natural gas (LNG) out of Queensland without requiring gas companies to supply Australians first. Then Federal Resources Minister under the Gillard/Rudd Labor governments, Gary Gray, claimed that domestic gas reservation policies create uncertainty and deter investment,

Dutton too late the hero with sovereign wealth funds

April 10, 2025 - 10:30 -- Admin

Great ideas, these. Peter Dutton would funnel 80 per cent of commodity revenue windfalls into two new Future Fund ­vehicles to pay down the nation’s $1.2 trillion debt bill and bankroll investments in regional Australia, as the Coalition ramps up its ­attacks on Labor’s big-spending budget and deficits. The Opposition Leader on Thursday will unveil

Is this the end of globalisation?

April 10, 2025 - 10:00 -- Admin

In the report below, Luke Yeaman, Chief Economist at CBA, examines whether the era of globalisation over. Trump, Tariffs and Trade: A Different Kind of Wall The era of trade liberalisation, free market reforms, deregulation and fiscal discipline (the Washington Consensus) is officially dead and buried. In a few weeks, President Trump has reversed a

The crash up

April 10, 2025 - 09:30 -- Admin

The Market Ear on the crash up. Huge in SPX SPX futures rate of change (1day). Refinitiv NASDAQ’s upside force NASDAQ futures rate of change (1day) for the history books. Refinitiv Upside force NASDAQ surging post the latest Trump news. Note futures are trading above the 8 day moving average. 21 day around 19500, right

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