Australians have a resolute belief in the property market. The discount variable mortgage rate has soared from a low of 2.4% ...

It is almost certain that the Albanese government will make changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the upcoming May federal budget. The fact that senior Labor MPs have not ruled out ...

DXY was firm overnight after a reasonable jobs report. AUD had another tearaway night. This story was not about US jobs, which should have capped it. It was about a rocketing JPY post-election and CNY ...

In reality, the housing bubble has been eating into all levels of government budgets for many years. Stamp duty is a revenue component that has increased structurally over time. AHURI estimates that ...

Announcing targets is easy. Delivering on them is the hard part. Two years ago, the Albanese government, alongside the states, announced the National Housing Accord, which set a target of building 1.2 ...

Charts from TME. Skew is a measure of how much investors are worried about the downside versus excited about the upside.

As usual, this is all sound and fury signifying nothing. Grace Tame has stolen the limelight from the very cause she espouses ...

Australia’s rental market has experienced record-tight vacancy rates and explosive rental growth over the past five years.

Caitlin Fitzsimmons, the environment and climate reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, has written an article challenging the common belief that younger Australians are being locked out of home ...

Australia’s federal budget uses two main deficit measures, and they differ because they treat certain transactions differently—especially asset sales, loans, and off‑budget funds. The headline balance ...

Back in 2022, one week after Albo was elected, I rang the gloriously handsome Andrew “Lord” Charlton and briefed him on the incoming gas catastrophe his government faced. Those words fell into ...

The Pulse’s Ross Elliott has written an excellent article on the administrative bloat that has engulfed Australia’s planning industry. Elliott notes that lawyers he has spoken with told him “they didn ...