Goldman with the note. BOTTOM LINE: President Trump signed executive orders that impose tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China effective Feb. 4. The White House has conditioned removal of the tariffs on improvement in the immigration and fentanyl situations but has not provided specific goals. While the outlook is unclear, we thinkthe Canada-
Peter Dutton is showing that the Coalition also cannot be trusted on immigration. After promising heavy cuts to net overseas migration last year, the Coalition’s election statement on immigration has only promised to cut the permanent migrant intake by 25% for two years and offered no target for temporary or net overseas migration. The Coalition’s
Albo has been a catastrophe for Aussie living standards. His lies are outrageous. The prime minister acknowledged the tough financial circumstances of the past three years, underpinned by high inflation and interest rates, but he indicated that the worst was over, the nation was at “the beginning of where we want to be”, and more
You get a trade war – you get a trade war – we all get a trade war! Well, not Australia directly yet but as a satellite of Chyna, it matters not as the Trump wrecking ball through the international economic order yielded a serious blow over the weekend as both Canada and Mexico stepped
The following video, which is making the rounds on Twitter (X), features opposition leader Peter Dutton explaining how he “saved diligently” to buy his first house in Brisbane at the age of 19. “I have saved diligently over those years and it allowed me to put together a deposit for a house. And I bought
The Department of Home Affairs released temporary visa data for Q4 2024, revealing 2,250,000 temporary visa holders in Australia, excluding visitors, at the end of 2024. This was a record for the December quarter, representing a 116,000 increase over the same period in 2023. There were also roughly 470,000 more temporary visas in Australia than
DXY is back. AUD is tariffied. Auld lead boots is the big question as the tariffs land. Oil keeps bleeding. Gold to the moon. The Crap Complex—dirt, miners, junk, EM—pooed its pants. Curve flattened. Stocks eased. Trump applied his tariffs. “Today, I have implemented a 25% Tariff on Imports from Mexico and Canada (10% on
All he had to do was keep saying, ‘I’ll lower the cost of everything.’ Instead, he has hatched the most disastrously inflationary energy policy I have ever seen. Peter Dutton said gas “will be incredibly important” for the grid and insisted he is eager accelerate new projects such a Narrabri in NSW to ensure more
Over the past decade, the number of cafes nationwide has reached an unsustainable level, and many are struggling to survive. I moved to my home suburb of Ashburton, Melbourne, in 2006. At the time, the local High Street shopping strip had only a few cafes. The number of cafes peaked at around a dozen in
CoreLogic released its first auction results for 2025, with final clearance rates crashing to new lows in the week ending 26 January. The national final auction clearance rate fell to 55.6%. This was the lowest result since the final week of 2022 when housing market conditions were adjusting to successive cash rate increases. The decline