Is there a crisis facing men?
The data on young men is genuinely mixed. You wouldn't know it from the commentary.
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Why markets didn't react to Australia's budget
The most controversial budget since 1993, and the bond market didn't bat an eye.
Chiefs of the salary cap
How Australian taxpayers are buying PNG an NRL premiership.
Did Labor just jump the shark?
The next Australian election just went from a sure thing to wide open.
The one line that matters in Australia's Budget
If you want to know whether a government is leaving the next generation better off, watch what it spends, not what it taxes.
Why Western Australia is squandering generational wealth
And how to fix it for the future.
Call it Jimflation
Australia's inflation is home brewed.
The intergenerational ruse
The coming budget isn't really about helping young Australians.
Australia should legalise nuclear
Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Japan are reversing course. Yet Australia is still pretending it has a choice.
Canada's borrowed wealth
Canada might be getting a sovereign wealth fund. Whether Canadians ever get any wealth out of it is a different question.
Australia's coming inflation
The Strait of Hormuz delivered the price shock. Whether it becomes inflation is up to Canberra and Martin Place.
Gas, taxes, and wishful thinking
Comparing Australia's gas tax to Norway's is a masterclass in false equivalence that ignores physical and economic reality.
Debt
Low debt buys you optionality
Australia has been burning its fiscal buffers in the good times, leaving it with little in the tank for the next real crisis.
Energy
Australia's two fuel crises
How Canberra's response to the first is making the second worse.
Housing
The housing wealth illusion
Australia's $12.3 trillion housing stock isn't a pool of misallocated capital, but a mark-to-market valuation of a policy-induced supply constraint.
Growth
The economists who cried wolf
Argentina under Milei is a case study in how easily economists' politics can override the lessons of their own discipline.
Trade
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.
Transport
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.
Energy
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.
Debt
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.
Energy
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.
Energy
There's no shortage of bad ideas in Australia
Almost every proposed response to Australia's fuel crisis would make it worse.
Inflation
The RBA is losing the war on credibility
The RBA spent 2025 fuelling a fire it now lacks the credibility to extinguish.
Politics
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.