The Housing Industry Association (HIA) claims that Australia desperately needs 83,ooo tradies to meet the Albanese government’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years. “Australia ...

Yesterday we had more evidence that the RBA is reading the big pivot to a December rate cut when economics governor, Sarah Hunter, explained why its inflation expectations modelling is not worth ...

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been growing in cost by 20% and now costs nearly $50 billion a year.

North Asia too: Gold has divorced from all fundamentals. Other commods not so much: Big miners are saying Chinese yawnulus: ...

I noted earlier this week that Australia’s homeownership rate collapsed in the 40 years to 2021, as illustrated by the ...

The Actuaries Institute reported in August that 1.6 million Australian households were experiencing financial stress as a result of escalating home insurance costs. This was a 360,000-household ...

Asian stock markets are all in the red after the retracement on Wall Street overnight although Chinese are relatively flat as they continue to absorb the PBOC stance on stimulus. Currency markets ...

Labor’s first federal budget, released in October 2022, projected net overseas migration (NOM) of 470,000 over the first two years (FY 23 and 24). On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has cut the official cash rate by 0.75% over the past two monetary policy meetings. On Wednesday, Statistics New Zealand released CPI inflation data for Q3, which ...