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In the world of Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Australia’s economy is strong, wages are booming, and living standards are rebounding fast: “The Coalition’s deliberate policy of wage suppression saw wages stagnate for the best part of a decade and living standards fall sharply, but we’re turning that around”. “We’ve managed to get inflation down and

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On August 30th, Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in broad daylight in Lviv, Ukraine. A key figure in the foreign-fomented Maidan putsch and a prominent and influential politician locally for many years, he was mourned by a welter of British, European and US officials. 

Below is another excellent guest post from MB reader Erin Rolandsen, CEO of Angelassist: The Guardian ran yet another piece of propaganda pleading for Big Australia, this time leaning on KPMG modelling to claim that cutting migration would actually lift house prices:  “Slashing migration would actually lead to higher house prices in Australia – here’s

Victoria premier uses trip to China to announce approval for a one gigawatt hour battery project proposed by Chinese giant Trina that had attracted local opposition.

A turbine blade at a newly commissioned wind farm in NSW has been bent in half in a series of incidents blamed on storms.

This week I've been plotting out not just World War 3.3 but the rest of the series out to 3.8. I got so tired of waiting around for the publishers to get the next edit of The Forever Dead back to me that I just started working on what it would take to do this series properly. I think I can get it done in eight books of about a hundred thousand words each. I've plotted out the overarching narrative and it seems to touch down in 3.8, so I guess we'll see.

Tonight I will be appearing on DFA Live with Martin North from 8.00pm AEST, where we will discuss everything to do with the housing market and economy. The YouTube feed is below. I hope to see you there.

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Blades from a single wind turbine located at the grounds of a leading insurance company - highlighting renewables, a Tesla battery and an EV charger - crashed to the ground.

Australia’s universities are among the nation’s most poorly run organisations. The number of international enrolments 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

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Victoria had hoped to have all of the pieces in place to launch its first offshore wind auction in September, but some developers asked for a pause.

The Australian’s Judith Sloan last week attacked the “shoddy” economic arguments used by those who favour large immigration numbers and open-border policies. The canards identified by Sloan include the following: Recent high figures of net overseas migration (long-term arrivals minus long-term departures) are merely a catchup from the pause caused by Covid. The overall trend

Climate shocks threaten to devastate communities, overwhelm emergency services and strain health, housing, food and energy systems according to a federal government assessment release

Green groups have attacked the planned mass rollout of “biodiversity-destroying” wind turbines across regional Australia. Veteran conservationist and former federal Greens leader Christine Milne told The Australian that peak environmental non-­government organisations were too “frightened” to oppose renewables projects: “I find it incomprehensible that you get this line back (from NGOs) that you can’t oppose