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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australian inflation is rapidly becoming a one-trick pony as energy price hikes devour everything in their path. Various government energy rebates are still having a big effect as they roll off ...

Risk markets were unable to move much overnight as the latest US initial jobless claims came in slightly higher than expected (until revised by Sharpie by the Fanta Fuhrer) while a lot of Fedspeak ...

It looks like a new and dovish Fed chair is front-running. Bloomberg. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller is emerging as a top candidate to serve as the central bank’s chair among ...

By Stephen Saunders  Despite July’s highly aggressive return-visit from UNFCCC bovver-boy Simon Stiell, the Coalition seems ...