South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill correctly rejects a population Ponzi scheme as an economic plan for South Australia’s future. The biggest challenge facing South Australia and other regional parts of Australia is the preferred […]
25% of all new housing construction in NSW is sold to a foreign buyer. In addition there are many sales of existing houses and apartments to the hundreds of thousands of foreign […]
In an article published by the Guardian today John Quiggin discusses whether “Socialism” may find new support now that the flaws in neoliberal economics are becoming impossible to ignore. A lively discussion […]
Macrobusiness reported the latest ABS release on demographics. “…….The ABS released its Australian demographic statistics for the March quarter of 2017, which revealed that Australia’s overall population growth rate has accelerated led […]
So the end of Australian car manufacturing has arrived with closures of both the Toyota and Holden plants to take place by the end of October. Next year Australians will buy close […]
The Australian Financial Review has been providing a lot of ‘supportive’ coverage for the promoters of the new “Build to Let” housing model. Now that it appears that Mr Scott Morrison is […]
Colonialism is often in the news and as a ‘former’ colony Australians might have some sympathy for the Indian perspective presented by Shashi Tharoor for the affirmative side of this debate “Does […]
It is that day of the month when the RBA board meets to pluck some wings off bats, boil them with eyes of newt and distil the resulting mixture down to an […]
The latest “instant noodle” solution to Australia’s housing affordability crisis is “Build to rent”. Rather than have “normal” people be able to buy a block of land in one of the largest […]
So the Turnbull government is blowing itself up day by day and poll by poll. It seems as though fanatics in the government cannot wait for the policy ‘purity’ opportunities of being […]
Decentralisation is only a pipe dream whilst we are running an economic model and strategy that has centralisation baked in. Bernard Salt and George Megalogenous continually ignore what is driving the population […]
A report in Bloomberg states that there is talk that the US Federal Reserve ‘might’ start reducing its $7 Trillion dollar mountain of mortgage backed securities. This rumour concerns one of the […]
Today on Macrobusiness.com.au another excellent Deep T journey down through the house of mirrors that is APRA’s regulation of Australian private bank credit creation. Unquestionably absurd. If a casual observer thought this APRA […]
The “balanced budget paradox” is an interesting paradox as the implications of it are obvious but many remain oblivious to them. It would seem that hiding in plain sight remains an excellent […]
Anna Bligh, in her new role in political retirement as spruiker in chief for the interests of the Australian private banks, gave a speech yesterday at the Australian Press club in Canberra. […]
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