Australian Politics

Over recent weeks, I have exposed the blatant immigration lies of federal Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh.

Last week, Health Minister Mark Butler announced a series of cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which aimed to reduce the cost of the program to $55 billion per year by the end of the year.

Apologists for the ‘Big Australia’ mass migration policy frequently argue that the nation experienced high rates of immigration in the post-war period without posing problems and that the solution to complaints about congestion and shortages is to simply ‘build more’.

The former Turnbull Coalition government initially announced that the Snowy Hydro 2.0 pumped-hydro scheme would cost $2 billion and be completed by 2021.

Productivity Commission (PC) chair Danielle Wood has admitted that it is “going to take decades” for fixes to improve housing supply to make home ownership more affordable, “to filter through”.

Earlier this week, I exposed Labor MP Dr Andrew Leigh’s bald-faced immigration lies.

The federal government will introduce new eligibility criteria for the National Disability Insurance Scheme as part of changes announced by Health Minister Mark Butler on Wednesday.

It is not easy keeping pace with President Donald Trump’s destruction of the world as we know it.

Australia’s federal budget uses two main deficit measures, and they differ because they treat certain transactions differently—especially asset sales, loans, and off‑budget funds.

Due in large part to geopolitical tensions and worries about energy security, fuel scab Albo appears set to kybosh the gas tax.

It’s best to read this article with the music playing.

When evaluating any government policy, a fundamental question arises: What is the policy’s objective?

By Dr Cameron Murray from Fresh Economic Thinking I explain how a scaled variable royalty does the job of a super-profits tax while avoiding the accounting trickery in order to share risk and get a better public return from resources.

On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released data showing that Victorians pay the highest state and local taxes in the nation. As illustrated below, state and local government taxes in Victoria were $6,605 per capita in 2024-25, $582 (9.7%) higher than the state and territory average.

As usual, a day after the Parliament heard sense from policy advocates, the gas cartel was unleashed.

Leading Iranian figures are criticising Donald Trump’s actions and threats, but there is still little indication that the US-Iran conflict can be resolved.

Regional Australia stands to lose from the continuation of the ‘Big Australia’ mass migration policy.

JPM answers.  Iran’s onshore storage capacity is roughly 86 million barrels and is currently about 54% full (around 47 mb), leaving approximately 40 mb of working capacity—equivalent to about 22 days of exports.

According to 9News, the upcoming federal government is likely to see the Albanese government revert the capital gains tax (CGT) on property investment to the system in place before 1999, which taxed real capital gains (i.e., after adjusting for CPI inflation) at one’s marginal tax rate.

Gojeera Takaichi may be here any minute, but she faces a growing riot in Parliament House in favour of a gas tax.

Bob Birrell, Katharine Betts and Ernest Healy from The Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI) have published an excellent analysis of the purported ‘lurch to the right’ by Australian voters.

Why Albo’s cowards didn’t initiate diesel constraints for city slickers on day one of the Iran War is beyond me.

Most people with a brain know that the self-proclaimed Trumpgod is, in fact, the reverse.

When Australia went to the polls for the federal election in May last year, the two major parties combined for 66.4% of the vote, their lowest share since the founding of the Liberal Party over 80 years ago.