Australian Politics

Some argue that Chinese CO₂ emissions are already falling.

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 migration policies have lacked direction and purpose”.

Sometimes it’s good when the international press comes calling on an Australian issue.

Graduate (485) visas have been the second-fastest-growing category of temporary visas since Labor came to office in mid-2022.

Trump’s endless war on Iran is now official.

Indebted state governments are likely to be the biggest losers from the synchronised housing market correction.

MB readers have been subjected to daily eye-bashing about how coal is the only way we can possibly power the data centre boom.

That cackling sound you can hear is Dan Andrews.

Several Trump cyphers in Pakistan and Qatar tried and failed to TACO overnight as they bragged about imminent peace.

The spurious claim that intermittent, weather-dependent energy is best to power data centres has been thoroughly debunked by the operators of such sites.

While the national paper descends into energy bribery: The gas debate has turned into a clown show courtesy of Stoke’s Beach Energy.

Oil and cracks reopened bigly last night.

The 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, considered the gold standard in keeping track of what powers the world, was released last month and revealed that: Oil consumption hit a record high.

The AFR recently 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 52,000 from 2018-19.

Here it is, in all its glory.

The 60 day ceasefire enabling negotiation of a final deal on the Straits of Hormuz ends tomorrow week.

By Stephen Saunders Since 2006, Big Australia has sailed on through seven prime ministers.

LVO is back at the coalface with a blunt pick today.

Former senior Australian Treasury official David Pearl gave a fantastic interview on the John Anderson podcast where, among other things, he highlighted how economic policy in Australia has lost focus on growing the economy via productivity improvements and has become increasingly reliant on government spending and interference to drive growth.

When you exploit and ruin a country for seventy years, should you really be surprised that when it wins the war against you, it is payback time?