For years, Macro Business has sounded the alarm about Australia’s immigration-driven housing crisis. The data is indisputable. Australia’s rental affordability has plummeted to a record low, with households forced to devote a record portion of their income to rent a home. Rents have risen about 50% nationwide since the pandemic’s beginning, driving the rental affordability
CoreLogic released its final auction results for last weekend. The clearance rate was just 59.9% nationally, the second time in three weeks it has been below 60%. The following chart plots the monthly average final auction clearance rate across the major markets. As you can see, the decline in the national final clearance rate has
International Reading: Stock Market Plummets as Fed Chair Powell Gives Dire Warning: Donald Trump’s policies are about to destroy the economy. – New Republic Tariffs will hit US economy and raise prices, Fed boss warns – BBC Fed Chair Powell gives starkest warning yet on potential economic consequences from tariffs – CNN Trump’s trade war
As the world fights back against the Trump regime’s tariff nonsense, the latest Japanese trade figures showing a sharp decline in exports to the US year on year while locally the latest numberwang showed mixed sentiment around employment that could upset the expected cut from the RBA in May. The Australian dollar is still holding
The Albanese government’s Australian Universities Accord Final Report set a target of 55% of young Australians having a university degree by 2050. The report states that to meet its 55% university attainment target, “the system will need to more than double the number of Commonwealth-supported students in universities from 860,000 currently to 1.8 million by
At the end of 2024, CoreLogic reported that rental affordability hit a record low, with the median-income household required to spend 33% of their income to rent the median home. Last month’s rental affordability report from PropTrack also showed that households at the end of 2024 could afford to rent the smallest share of advertised
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its March labour force report, which was steady as she goes. There were 32,230 jobs created over the month, below economists’ expectations of a 40,000 increase. The national unemployment rate remained fairly steady at 4.1% thanks to a slight increase in the participation rate. The underemployment rate was
Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen and Chief Strategist, David Llewellyn-Smith dive deep into the factors we are looking for to show that the market may have bottomed. What are the long-term valuation metrics and how should investors be thinking about them? Can’t make it to the live series? Catch
Is there a bigger gaslighter in Australian politics than Teals MP for Wentworth, Allegra Spender? The self-styled climate crusader inherited a luxury Woollahra mega-mansion worth tens of millions of dollars: She has also owns a lovely weekender at Pittwater: Spender regularly sheds crocodile tears about Sydney’s housing crisis while simultaneously promoting endless mass immigration. Allegra Spender
Hellbourne is Australia’s first version of Mega-City One. The sprawling helltropolis of the Judge Dredd comics describes a crush-loaded future of base humanity, scrambling over one another like spifire grubs for survival. Twenty years ago, Melbourne was a cheap and thriving creative center with excess infrastructure, booming multicultural success and a lifestyle to burn. Today,