ANZ has a funny cash rate analysis today. It has been, and remains, one of the most hawkish forecasters. We expect a 25bp ...

After months of strong results, Australia’s auction market has experienced a loss of momentum alongside a stalling of price ...

While Australia is a mighty economy on paper, the 14th largest in the world, it is also fragile and has not provided broad based prosperity.

Goldman shows why Australia’s rental shock isn’t over. Weekly data from SQM suggest growth has picked up somewhat over recent months (Exhibit 6). The SQM data tends to lead CPI rent inflation ...

Ferrous market prices are holding as steel output plunges. CISA has been catching down to cratered offical data in recent months. Chinese export data for July showed steel exports still going ...

Exorbitant land costs are the primary driver of Australia’s high home prices. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), residential land values, which underpin the housing market ...

By Stephen Saunders Despite July’s highly aggressive return-visit from UNFCCC bovver-boy Simon Stiell, the Coalition seems unlikely to seriously challenge Labor’s net zero cult. Albanese Labor ...

In the lead-up to the 2022 federal election, Labor promised to run a smaller immigration policy if elected. However, as soon as they came to office, they convened the Jobs & Skills Summit, which ...

The 2025 UBS Global Wealth Report was released this week, which once again showed that the median Australian is among the wealthiest in the world. UBS ranked Australians second in the world for ...

I have warned repeatedly that Australia’s labour market has been living in a ‘fool’s paradise’. The nation’s unemployment rate remains historically low at 4.3% and the Reserve Bank of ...

One of the negative side effects of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), which took effect in 2005, was that it increased patent and copyright terms, raising the price of ...

What a sad sack of Labor leaders these two are. One is a backroom bovver boy with the economic nous of a gnat. The other wrote a PhD on economic reform and political bravery to fill the void of ...