15+ hour, 9+ 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…...

15+ hour, 9+ 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…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (347+ words) According to Cotality’s daily dwelling values index, home values across the five major capital city markets have declined by 5.2% from their 10 April 2026 peak. The biggest decline in 40 years of records, according to Cotality, was 8.6%, recorded between October 2017 and May 2019. At…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (106+ words) In May, the Migrant Justice Institute released a report revealing that Australia has a systemic, economy‑wide architecture of migrant worker exploitation, with nearly two-thirds of migrant employees being underpaid. Based on 9,963 migrant workers surveyed in 2024 across six languages: 65% paid…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (239+ 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…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (120+ words) When total Australian federal government debt recently ticked over the $1 trillion mark, it triggered a war of words over who should take the lion’s share of responsibility for reaching this undesirable milestone. In the view of opposition leader Angus Taylor,…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (133+ words) Just when you thought the Albanese government’s gaslighting over the housing crisis couldn’t get any lower, Anika Wells, the Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport, published the following videos on social media equating the housing crisis to the supply…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (78+ words) Bureaucrat bloat is crushing Australia’s productivity MacroBusiness Bureaucrat bloat is crushing Australia’s productivity Luke Kinsella at The AFR has written a fantastic report on the rising number of federal public servants under the Albanese government. Australia’s federal public service has…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (295+ words) Australia’s house price correction steepened in August. According to Cotality’s daily dwelling values index, which tracks value changes across Australia’s five major capital city markets, home prices declined by a hefty 1.2% at the 5-city aggregate level in August. As illustrated…...

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…...