1+ week, 4+ day ago   (457+ words) Dejan Hinic and Gabriël Moens Not infrequently, Australian politicians suggest that the considerable household deposits in savings accounts, estimated to be $19.21 trillion (mainly driven by the value of land and dwellings), are Australian, not private, assets. Such suggestions are often…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1101+ words) Here are two things worth considering… Firstly, green energy projects and state government agendas envision a version of Australia essentially surrounded by offshore wind parks. Bowen’s miraculous superpower by the sea. There are plans to put these things every-bloody-where. Secondly,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (611+ words) The Spectator Australia Woodside drops $7 billion low-carbon investment target Is the balance of power shifting away from Net Zero projects and investments? In a sharp reversal of its former clean-energy commitments, energy giant Woodside has apparently dumped its $7 billion low-carbon…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (491+ words) The Spectator Australia Andy Burnham has discovered the cost of nationalisation The buses would run on time. The trains would be cheaper. And perhaps most of all, the water companies would start providing a far better service. Andy Burnham was…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (725+ words) The Spectator Australia Mike Ashley is the hero of the British high street Adura, a new name to most of us, turns out to be a joint venture between Shell and the Norwegian state energy giant Equinor. It stands ready…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (564+ words) In the sea off eastern Japan one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded erupted in March 2011 and created a tsunami of up to 40 metres high that killed more than 24,000 people when it struck land. The biggest danger was that seawater…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (254+ words) This week, Andy Burnham, in an article about how much he loves buses, declared that he will lead a ‘cost of living government’. Yet costs are going up, as confirmed by figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS),…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (216+ words) There is an alternative source of figures on how many people are working as employees and self-employed: HMRC’s tax records. Those figures (and various combinations of them) are published by the ONS or were combined by the report’s authors according…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (416+ words) Suddenly, superannuation has become a hot-button issue in Australia. Germany was the first modern state to introduce old-age pensions. That was in 1889 when Bismarck required all employees to contribute to funding their retirement incomes. Australia and Britain introduced means-tested but…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (519+ words) Burnham’s jobs apocalypse The Spectator Australia Is the Burnham bounce about to fizzle out? This morning has seen the first shaky set of economic figures since his ascension to Mayor of Great Britain. Figures released by the Office for National…...