Operation Sovereign Borders is hardly the first act of Australia throwing up the barricades for fear of some kind of invasion. Probably the...
The Government's Ballooning Deficit
The Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 requires the federal Treasurer to publicly release and table a mid-year economic and fiscal outlook ...
White Ribbon Day: Australia's Violent Undercurrent
Today is White Ribbon Day . It is a day when men are asked to stand up to violence against women. This is a great thing, focusing the nati...
Should Christians Support School Chaplaincy?
A couple of weeks ago, Tony Abbott did his best to explain the purpose of military action in Iraq and Syria. In doing so, he argued the cas...
Queensland Government's mixed messages on cost of living
The Queensland Government is very concerned about the cost of living. That is why the government has proposed investing proceeds from the a...
Gender indicators: education and employment
The Bureau released some statistics a few weeks ago that received very little attention from mainstream news outlets. For some time, women ...
Australia's insatiable hunger for internet
This week the Bureau released its latest numbers on internet usage in Australia . It showed, yet again, great increases in the volume of da...
High Court Ruling in Fairness v Minister for Immigration
On Thursday the High Court made its judgment in the case of Plaintiff S4-2014 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection . The princ...
Does Australia have more unemployment than the USA?
As was widely reported a couple of weeks ago, the latest round of labour statistics from the Bureau showed another increase in the unemploy...
Unemployment and Participation
Tomorrow the ABS will release the latest labour force numbers, bringing us up to July. We may see more growth in the unemployment rate, if ...
Residential Property Market
The residential property market is hotting up. We've seen a variety of numbers pointing to this conclusion in recent months. Last mont...
June CPI
We were given the CPI figures by the Bureau on Wednesday. Headline inflation is running at 3 per cent in the year to June. While this m...
Revenue and expenditure
Is Australia high-taxing, high-spending country? The below chart shows the revenue and expenditure of a wide variety of countries. Australi...
June unemployment numbers
Today the ABS released the June labour force figures. They make for more bleak reading, following on from other indicators of a softening e...
Trust and votes
Some interesting numbers out of this week's Essential polling on trust in state governments . The graph below shows how each of the thr...
Intergenerational Theft
Conservative politicians and commentators love to talk about intergenerational theft. Through the prism of this line of argument, governmen...
Recent Overseas Migrants
Australians are a funny bunch when it comes to overseas migration. We tolerate outsiders crossing our shores, if only because our populatio...
The facts about job vacancies
One of the many surprise policies announced in the federal government's 2014-15 Budget was a big change to the way income support is pa...
Clive Palmer's Atomic Wedgie
As if Tony Abbott hadn’t wedged himself enough on climate policy, yesterday Clive Palmer delivered him a Seinfeldian atomic wedgie that will...
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