Tarric Brooker

Tarric is an Australian freelance journalist and independent analyst who covers economics, finance, and geopolitics. Tarric is the author of the Avid Commentator Report. His works have appeared in The Washington DC Examiner, The Spectator, The Sydney Morning Herald, News.com.au, among other places.

Australia’s world beating migration intake

In the ongoing and eternal debate surrounding the right level of migration into Australia, there are often claims that the current level of migration into Australia is “normal” and that on these grounds criticism of the size of the intake should be dismissed.

Shock rise in property listings raises housing crash risk

In the years since the pandemic first arrived on Australia’s shores, there has been an often forgotten factor boosting the fortunes of the housing market: far less stock on the market for sale.

Australians aren’t willing to pay for net zero

As the debate on the issue of net zero emissions and climate change continues in the halls of power and around backyard BBQ’s across the nation, new data from Compass Polling has shed light on what voters believe when the time comes to pay for action on climate change directly with their wallets.

“The Spirit of Australia” plans to outsource jobs to India

In 1984, Australia’s flag-carrying airline, Qantas, began using the slogan “The Spirit of Australia”.

Organised crime funded by NDIS powers economic growth

Labor’s productivity failure drives Reserve Bank rate hikes

In mid-August 2025, the Albanese government gathered together economists, business leaders and policymakers for its ‘Economic Reform Roundtable’.

Dying public housing killed home building

On an often rainy and gloomy island in the North Atlantic that once held an empire on which the sun never set, there was once a truly astounding amount of home building.

Underlying Australian inflation highest of major developed economies

Australia’s migration-driven budget windfall is built on fantasy

In the debate over the appropriate size of the migration intake, proponents often reference estimates from the federal Treasury or the Parliamentary Budget Office to justify a larger intake.

Data centre boom in the land of droughts and power shortages

In a recent appearance on ABC’s ‘That’s Business’ podcast hosted by Alan Kohler, Treasurer Jim Chalmers attempted to make a case that Australia was an attractive place for data centre construction, far more so than the historic environment for car manufacturing.

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