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Australia’s quarterly dwelling construction data shows that there is a gaping gap between dwelling approvals and commencements and dwelling completions: Because of this disconnect, Australia’s dwelling construction pipeline was sitting at a high 238,000 in the December quarter of 2022: Last week, reports emerged that thousands of homes approved for construction have been put on

The times, they have changed

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NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

The Albanese Government continues to generate terrific results for Australia’s working poor who are now living for free in parks. Accusations that Albo’s open borders nutters are the most right-wing “labor” government of all time simply don’t stack up. In Mad Albo’s own electorate of Marrickville, his government has generated enormous employment opportunities for charitable

This post is rather long. If you want a point form summary, scroll down to the bottom. Secondly, this post does not represent the views of anyone else but me.

As part of his pre-election platform, the now PM promised to get an aboriginal Voice into the constitution during this parliament.

Since Albo basically controls both houses on this issue, we will almost certainly be asked to vote on his recently proposed proposed wording (emphasis added):

There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice

The Grattan Institute should always be viewed with suspicion on immigration policy. Why? Because its immigration “research” is sponsored by the pro-Big Australia Scanlon Foundation, which was established by real estate developer and rich lister Peter Scanlon: As explained by the Herald-Sun’s John Masanauskas in 2009 (link no longer active): MAJOR investor and former Elders

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe briefed members of parliament’s economics committee yesterday. According to The AFR, Lowe told federal MPs that he had no tolerance for prolonged high inflation and would do whatever it took to bring it down, leaving them with no doubt that he is not done raising interest rates. Lowe’s

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I am still at a loss why there is silence around this. Gas prices are today double Albo’s price cap of $12Gj in NSW and VIC. The consequences for electricity prices speak for themselves: At these prices, utility bills will not only swamp Budget relief, but they will also rise by two-thirds. This will add

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For those familiar with the ongoing prosecution of Julian Assange by the United States, a brutal carnivalesque endeavour that continues to blight that legal system, there is not much to be said. Assange is a political prisoner who must be freed. But the task remains for those like Stella Assange to convince politicians and journalists to embrace that course.

In the conurbation that is South East Queensland, most of the towns that have been consumed by population growth still have their agricultural show. The Ipswich Show was held last weekend. Apart from all the ‘fun of the fair’ that you would expect most local politicians were represented by stalls in the exhibitions area, where…

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited India in March, when he inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to make it simpler for Indians to work and study in Australia. According to the Mechanism for Mutual Recognition of Qualifications, Australia must recognise Indian vocational and university graduates to be “holding the comparable AQF qualification for the purposes