INSOLVENCIES RUNNING AT THEIR HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE PANDEMIC
Financial regulators are sharpening their focus on the consumer credit market, warning that more Australians are going bust due to bad car loans and ballooning personal debts.
Inside Argentina’s economic revival that has torched economic orthodoxy
‘To be completely frank, if we have a net zero policy, I don’t know what it is. The bottom line is we need to create wealth.” This is what one of Argentina’s senior government ministers tells me halfway through an interview in Buenos Aires this week.
For Our Veterans
We’re for welcoming, appreciating, and thanking those who have served in the defence of our great nation.
Boxed-in economy has no room for rate cuts
Australia’s economy is at risk of being “boxed in” by its own capacity constraints that could lead to higher inflation and “little room” for further interest rate cuts, the Reserve Bank has warned, while economists say government spending on unproductive investments will compound the risk.
Government moves to hide Blayney mine evidence in court review
Government lawyers have asked a court to keep troves of evidence from public view in a judicial review scrutinising Tanya Plibersek’s decision to block the development of the $1bn Blayney gold mine.
Environmental doomsters get it wrong again
Across the past half-century, environmentalists have predicted countless calamities. Extreme predictions typically were wrong, draconian countermeasures turned out to be mostly misguided, and we should be grateful we didn’t follow their harmful advice.
Meat industry calls bull on ‘ideological’ food guidelines shift, scientist’s axing
Australia’s red meat industry is demanding the Albanese government intervene to head off “ideological” manipulation of official dietary guidelines to curtail meat consumption on climate grounds, as a top food scientist is “purged” from a key role for not being sufficiently activist.
REALITY V THE FALSE ALARMISTS
At the 2025 Bush Summit in Ballarat, Anthony Albanese defended his government’s increasingly radical plans to decarbonise the Australian economy by invoking the science.
Govt backs cross-border economic zone with RM850m in industry and talent incentives
Malaysia pledges significant financing, streamlined approvals and skills development to drive investor confidence and advance regional integration
RBA trapped by low productivity
Government not pulling its weight in lifting the inflation burden.
Miners blast ‘disastrous’ tax proposal
The resources industry has come out swinging over a Productivity Commission proposal for a 5 per cent cashflow tax as the federal government seeks a way to plug a budget black hole.
Victorian energy transition doubts grow as RWE abandons Gippsland offshore wind farm plans
German energy giant RWE has scrapped plans to develop a major offshore wind farm in Victoria, delivering a fresh setback to the state’s already fragile energy transition.