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Aussie wage growth has no chance of a sustained recovery. The mass immigration-led economy is, at base, a wage suppression scheme, and such macro forces will ultimately have their say. Leading indicators like the Seek Advertised Salary Index have slowed. The quarterly annualised rate is now at 3.1% and has trended lower. Other laggy indicators

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The Reserve Bank GDP nowcast, released last Friday, forecast that New Zealand’s GDP contracted by 0.4% in Q2 2025. The Reserve Bank’s nowcast was revised lower following the final partial GDP indicators released last week, showing a sharp contraction in the manufacturing sector in Q2 and negligible growth in a range of services industries. On

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As the debate over the right level of migration into the nation continues, I thought it would be interesting to look at some assessments of Australia’s migration system. There are plenty of reports that are scathing of the system’s failures, from its vulnerability to exploitation to its lack of focus on the skilled migrants most

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Santos runs two LNG export trains out of Gladstone, Queensland, which siphons up East Coast gas and ships it to Asia (mostly China). Since Santos’ LNG export trains came online in 2015 (alongside others), the volume of gas produced on the East Coast has doubled, while 25% less gas has been supplied to domestic users.

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Front-line situation is dire: high casualties and unsustainably high desertion rates.

Gen. Cerski (noted Sept 8) acknowledged Ukraine faces roughly a threefold disadvantage in forces/resources in key sectors.

Ukraine struggles to man the front — manpower is in “terminal decline” while Russia is reportedly achieving net monthly gains.

Leaders are pinning hopes on technological fixes (UAVs, ground robots, drones) to substitute for missing personnel.

Australia’s governments want to ‘solve’ the housing crisis by pushing Australians into high-rise apartments. They ignore that the 2010s decade saw the biggest boom in high-rise apartment construction in Australia’s history, concentrated in the nation’s major capital cities: This unprecedented boom in high-rise apartment complexes resulted in a spike in construction faults and quality issues,

Advances in battery technology should be a blessing to consumers, allowing them to force networks to finally compete for their custom.

Monash researchers say breakthrough in super capacitor tech means they could store enough energy to replace batteries in many applications.

Australian wind energy prices have doubled to more than $110/MWh, and the technology is facing an "existential challenge" from lower cost solar and battery hybrids.

After this month’s stronger-than-expected June quarter national accounts release, which saw the economy grow by 0.6% over the quarter (faster than consensus and the RBA’s forecasts), Westpac’s leading index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity relative to trend three to nine months into the future, has stalled. The six-month annualised growth rate in

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Of the 16 battery project winners from the biggest CIS tender, one is already almost finished, others have started but some will take a year before their owners commit.

On Monday, Shadow Home Affairs Minister Andrew Hastie threatened to quit the opposition front bench unless Coalition leader Sussan Ley abandons the party’s commitment to a net zero emissions target. For more than two decades, the Coalition has been engaging in internal battles over the issue of climate change action. Back in 2003, several prominent

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The number of international enrolments in Australia hit a record high of 839,200 in the year to June 2025. This was up around 13,400 (1.6%) from the 825,800 enrolments in 2024, around 130,440 (18%) higher than the same time in 2019 before the pandemic, and more than triple the 266,100 enrolments 20 years earlier in

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