Australian Politics

The gas cartel breather is over.

Last month’s Guardian’s Essential Poll said the Albanese government was doing a poor job “increasing wages and workers’ rights”.

Western Australia has long harboured hopes of independence from the rest of Australia.

By Stephen Saunders Regardless of the 2025 election, voters will get a duopoly dinner: environmental and energy sellout, regressive education, unfair taxation, mega migration, and the housing hunger games.

I would have thought it was obvious.

Alas for Australia.

He says he can.

This is not complex.

The gas import catastrophe begins this year.

The news for Australians over Xmas was mixed in reference to energy.

In 2013, Labor Resources Minister Gary Grey made the unfortunate decision to allow the Gladstone liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals to be developed without the need to reserve gas for domestic users.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the public sector pay bill rose by 8% nationally in 2023-24 to $232 billion.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese awarded Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau high praise after announcing his resignation.

If a federal election were held today the L-NP would win, with a two-party preferred (2PP) vote of 53% (up 1% since Christmas) compared to the ALP on 47% (down 1%).

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was asked a number of times on Monday if he will be taking any new tax changes to the federal election, but he declined to reveal if he has any plans to do so.

Starting from 1 July 2024, Victorian non-profit private schools with an income per student exceeding $15,000 were subject to a 4.86% payroll tax.

The Australian’s Nick Cater claims that former Greens leader Bob Brown would not recognise the current party.

Australia’s politicians, the media, and environmental groups want us to believe that climate change is the biggest environmental threat.

In a joint statement issued in November, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher announced that the Future Fund, which is one-third the size of the Australian economy, will be directed to invest in housing, security, and the green energy transition “where possible, appropriate, and consistent with strong returns”.

Against expert advice, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan chose to sign the contracts to build the first leg of the $200-plus billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) project.

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers hit back at former Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Peter Costello, who criticised the Albanese government’s financial management. Treasurer Chalmers claimed on Twitter (X) that Labor had delivered a $200 billion improvement in the budget since it came to office, thereby delivering $70 billion in interest payment savings.

The median forecast of 36 economists polled by The Australian Financial Review is that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will begin reducing the cash rate at its board meeting on 19-20 May.

Twitter (X) user AusPolCommenter claims that the Albanese government is a “good government” because it “took 66 promises to the 2022 election.