When the latest Australian wages data was released, it revealed yet another quarter of falls in real terms. Overall, since ...

Murdoch is on the warpath. Banking giant ANZ’s revised forecast this week that capital city home prices would fall 10.6 per cent from peak to trough in the current slump – led lower by Sydney sinking ...

Gas cartel HQ is busy massaging Japanese norks for panic. ….as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese grapples with the fallout from his comments last month about a gift of melons from Japanese Prime ...

Australia’s economy cannot grow at a robust pace without causing inflation. Australian living standards also stagnate. I outlined why in my recent expert testimony to the Senate Committee on ...

Pilbara strikes, CMRG shanangins, and a little bounce in steel are giving the ferrous complex a meek relief rally. The newsflow remains grim as roaches crawl across the market. A Reuters article says ...

Sometimes it’s good when the international press comes calling on an Australian issue. Sometimes it’s bad. Like Bloomberg today. Once considered too remote and expensive, Beetaloo has gained ...

Earlier this year, Cotality published the following chart showing the biggest national declines in dwelling values over the past 40 years. According to Cotality, the largest decline was in 2017-19, ...

Trump’s endless war on Iran is now official. As the 60-day deadline for the Memorandum of Understanding is about to expire on Sunday, Pakistan is trying to revive it. Good luck. Despite ceasefires in ...

Some argue that Chinese CO₂ emissions are already falling. The Global Carbon Budget margin of error for 2025 allows for a fall. The second derivative trend is obvious. Emissions intensity is ...

Australian tenants have experienced the most severe rental cost inflation in living memory. According to Cotality, national advertised rents have increased by more than 50% since the end of 2019, ...

In September 2024, Matt Thistlethwaite, the federal assistant minister for immigration, told the Sydney Institute that “for many decades Australia hasn’t had a migration plan” and that “Australia’s ...

The nation’s biggest mortgage lender, CBA, has released its annual results, and the investor presentation contains interesting information on home lending. First, home loan applications have fallen ...