On Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release the official labour force release for August. Ahead of that release, Roy Morgan released its shadow labour force survey for August, which recorded a sharp 0.8% increase in unemployment to 11.1%, up 2.0% year-on-year: Roy Morgan effectively counts someone as unemployed if they want a
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
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
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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Retirement Essentials has released a report, produced on behalf of industry super fund HESTA, showing that Australians who receive the age pension but continue to work can incur effective marginal tax rates of between 60% and 80%. Retirement Essentials found, among other things, that the effective marginal tax rate for a single pensioner will be
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
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
In the wake of the recent assassination of American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at an event at Utah Valley University, there has been a renewed drive for greater levels of gun control in the United States. Historically, the push for greater gun control in the U.S. has been accompanied by commentary that America should follow
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
When the latest polling from Resolve was published by the Sydney Morning Herald and the other Nine Entertainment papers, it revealed that the One Nation primary vote was polling at a record high of 12%, overtaking the Greens as the third largest primary vote. While this is just one poll, a broader long-term analysis of