In March, I wrote the following commentary about the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) monetary tightening: Author Mark Twain once famously said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”.

Australia consistently ranks near the top in the world for household wealth. According to the UBS Global Wealth Report 2025, Australia had the second highest median household wealth in the world, ...

Cotality’s daily dwelling values index for June shows that home values across the combined capital cities ended the month far ...

On the 17th of June, One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson made her first-ever address to the National Press Club in Canberra. As the debate continues over the content and delivery of her speech, ...

Australia’s governments have conducted dozens of housing affordability inquiries over the years, including the following compiled by Dr Cameron Murray at Fresh Economic Thinking: Organisations like ...

To date, Australia’s house price correction has been confined to the nation’s largest capital city markets – Sydney and ...

Greens senator Pete Whish‑Wilson has issued a blunt warning to Australians to “wake the fk up”** amid One Nation’s dramatic surge in national polling, arguing that the rise may be linked to a ...

It’s about time we did something about Prelude. This monstrous floating LNG train was designed for one purpose and one purpose only. To dodge terrestrial royalties. Analysts claim that Resources Minis ...

The costs of Australia’s rental crisis are often measured by the sharp decline in the rental vacancy rate, which is tracking at historical lows, alongside the strong rise in advertised rents.

She’s monoculturalised back into deep second, the idiot. Anthony Albanese has secured a bounce back in voter support after scrapping contentious measures from Labor’s unpopular budget that broke key ...

By Alex Joiner, chief economist at IFM Investors For most of the last decade, Australians have been told a reassuring story: the economy is growing, unemployment is low, and we navigated the GFC, a ...

Steel prices are falling in the wake of the war on the prospect of resuming Gulf volumes. CISA Chinese volumes are still down 6%. Port stocks are on the march. Steel inventories are robusst. Still no ...