Just another TACO Tuesday
Trump chickened out, markets rallied, and global consumers are left footing the bill for a new toll in the Strait of Hormuz.
Free public transport and a puppy
If you wanted to ease pressure on fuel prices, free public transport would be near the bottom of the list.
Albanese's convenient crisis
Albanese is framing a foundational principle of prosperity as a policy failure because it makes a convenient origin story for the intervention he already wanted.
The GST windfall that isn't
State Premiers are performing generosity with a GST windfall that doesn't exist, adding to debt and stoking inflation at the worst possible time.
How much fuel does Australia really have?
Australia's fuel reserves are thin, but they aren't the reason you're paying more at the pump.
There's no shortage of bad ideas in Australia
Almost every proposed response to Australia's fuel crisis would make it worse.
The RBA is losing the war on credibility
The RBA spent 2025 fuelling a fire it now lacks the credibility to extinguish.
The economics of a Liberal bloodbath
When your political strategy relies on a version of the economy that hasn't existed since 1960, a historic bloodbath is the only logical outcome.
Oil is already being rationed
The biggest risk for Australia isn't the oil shock itself but that the urge to "do something" worsens the situation before the crisis is resolved.
The oil shock in context
Australia's current oil crisis is a race between a rapid global supply response and the domestic urge to 'do something' that inevitably makes the situation worse.
The capital gains tax discount is a red herring
The CGT debate is a distraction from a much harder truth: Australia's tax and transfer system is no longer fit for an aging population.
Australia's inflation problem is home-grown
Australia's underlying inflation problem was made in Canberra and Martin Place, not Tehran.