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Lower immigration numbers come with costs as well as benefits, particularly in the case of overseas students.
by Mukesh Dhamala - 11/11/2026 - 3 comments
This is the eighth time in the last ten years that federal governments have tried to intervene in the gas market including the $12 per gigajoule gas price cap in December 2022.
by Graham Young - 6/11/2026 - 7 comments
When did environmentalism prioritise the preservation of white elephants above everything else?
by Brendan O'Reilly - 28/10/2026 - 5 comments
Teaching workers to use AI is easy. Teaching them when to distrust it could be regional Australia’s real skills shortage.
by Gleb Tsipursky - 26/10/2026
Union corruption inflates building costs while tobacco taxes feed a violent black market. Australia’s gangster problem demands a change of policy - and perhaps a change of government.
by Brendan O'Reilly - 1/10/2026 - 2 comments
Imagine a calmer and safer post-Bondi Australia. Immigration is low, and less divisive. Government need not lie about it all the time, nor continually attack citizen-voters.
by Stephen Saunders - 29/09/2026 - 2 comments
Elected members imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing immigrants and a public wanting fewer. It’s time they questioned their assumptions.
by Cathal Leslie - 24/09/2026 - 1 comment
Rich countries are insulated from the worst of commodity markets, but there are some things money can't buy.
by Tim Butler - 21/09/2026 - 1 comment
In the carving up of GST share, one state’s costly mistakes can become everybody else’s fiscal problem.
by Graham Young - 17/09/2026 - 5 comments
150 million people live on Java, the most heavily populated island in the world. A the consequences of a volcanic disaster for them wouldn't be confined to Indonesia.
by Murray Hunter - 11/09/2026 - 4 comments
The modern world has too many choke points and not enough redundancies.
Spectator at large, Stuart Ballantyne, watches Australia go down the gurgler at the hands of bedwetters with absolutely no vision.
by Stuart Ballantyne - 24/08/2026 - 4 comments

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