17+ hour, 11+ 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…...

17+ hour, 10+ 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, 13+ 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…...

1+ day, 15+ 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…...

3+ day, 19+ 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…...

5+ day, 19+ 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…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (93+ words) macrobusiness.com.au Australian unemployment kept lower by Only Fans Since the Albanese government came to power, one metric it has pointed to most as a sign of its economic management is the nation’s unemployment rate. In trend terms, the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour 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…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (136+ words) MacroBusiness Politicians and public servants play Australians for fools The political class in Australia has truly ‘jumped the shark’. Last week, Celia Perkins, Deputy Secretary of Security and Estate at the Department of Defence, opened a public Senate committee hearing…...

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…...