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MacroBusiness | Australia's leading source of macroeconomic and financial market analysis
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A fresh start for immigration policy
14+ hour, 23+ min ago (936+ words) Australia needs a fresh start for its immigration programs. Back when Australia recruited immigrants mainly from developed countries, the emphasis was on attracting the best people to come live in Australia. A few lemons might slip through, but that was…...
How Australia replaced productivity growth with immigration
14+ hour, 23+ min ago (150+ words) Defenders of mass migration often argue that Australia’s ‘skilled’ immigration system boosts the nation’s productivity because migrants are more skilled than locals and earn higher incomes. However, when you examine the macroeconomic data, you quickly discover that Australia’s labour productivity…...
ABC talks immigration in an economic vacuum
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (1673+ words) The ABC, as critics like to point out, comes to us through an entirely different mindset. The reason for this is a simple matter of economics. Media organisations other than the ABC need to sell something, and from there they…...
Australia sacrificed to preserve Santos
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (450+ words) Wow, man, we are pwned. Santos-backed Gladstone LNG has secured a reprieve from the Albanese government’s domestic gas reservation scheme, shielding the Queensland project from the full force of the new rules while honouring existing export contracts. The concession is…...
Why is Scotty from Marketing attacking gas reservation?
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (601+ words) Australia has long had a problem with what to do with former prime ministers, but it appears Scotty from Marketing takes the cake. Former prime minister Scott Morrison says Labor’s plans for a domestic gas reservation scheme pose a threat…...
QLD at war with Feds over data centres
3+ week, 15+ hour ago (140+ words) The federal government is expected to set new rules for energy use by AI data centres at Wednesday’s national cabinet meeting. However, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is expected to reject the Albanese government’s bid to require that data centres use…...
Will Australia guard Mars when Trump invades Jupiter?
3+ week, 4+ day ago (155+ words) David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics…...
Has Alboob squibbed gas again?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (171+ words) David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics…...
Pauline right about durries
3+ week, 6+ day ago (149+ words) David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics…...