And so begins the Royal Commission into Bondi. Former High Court Justice Virginia Bell has begun Monday’s hearing by outlining the objectives of the first hearings in her antisemitism royal commission ...

Gary Morgan, Michele Levine and Julian McCrann from Roy Morgan have called on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to pause interest rate hikes, arguing that “the Australian economy is already in a ...

The AFR has produced the following chart showing the massive backlog of parent visas awaiting permanent residency: In the 2024-25 financial year, there were 157,000 parent visas in the backlog, up 52, ...

Goldman is nervous about the rally. Starting with momentum, Goldman notes that this factor has surged by 25% YTD, but the ...

Left-leaning outfits like The Australia Institute have for years argued that Australia is a low-taxing country (for example, here and here). Robert Carling from the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS ...

Professor Robert Pape is the author of the book and substack The Escalation Trap.  Sixty days into the war, none of Washington’s core objectives—regime change, nuclear rollback, military degradation, ...

For no sensible reason, iron ore is threatening to break out to its highest point in two years. Demand is unsupportive. CISA is still down over 6%. The Construction PMI trend is for doomsayers.

POTUS says Iran is going to capitulate as its oil wells explode. BofA estimates the timeline. Modest oil exports (250k bpd) at high oil prices could allow the Iranian regime to remain cohesive and ...

Last year, the Albanese government increased its 2026 international student planning level by 25,000, bringing it to 295,000. However, it was a flexible cap, with Ministerial Direction (MD) 115 ...

With the release of the March quarter U.S. national accounts, it was revealed that the U.S. economy expanded by 2.0% on an annualised basis in the first three months of the calendar year. While this ...

As explained last week, the latest forecasts from the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council’s (NHSAC) 2026 State of the Housing System report, released last week, are utterly delusional.

What we grow and where we grow it Australia is about to get a food price hammering with the Iran war and the closure of the ...