Business

RBA pauses on rates

After ten consecutive cash rate rises, Australia’s Reserve Bank leaves rates on hold at 3.6% 4 April 2023 | Staff Writers (Image: Marcus Reubenstein) The Reserve Bank has kept Australia’s cash rate on hold, in […]

Business

Friendly Jordies Firebombed

While parts of the mainstream media are labelling it an “alleged firebombing” the fact (not allegation) is, controversial YouTuber, Jordan Shanks’s home is smouldering. The corporate media seemed to bask in his misery, with some […]

Comment

AUKUS must be election issue

The Morrison Government has clear plans to take AUKUS to the next election as a key national security issue, however, its nuclear-powered submarines will be expensive white elephants, delivered long after the current government is […]

Business

Take MY(EFO) word for it

Total access and zero analysis, the MYEFO budget leaks gobbled up in Canberra media feeding frenzy 18 December 2021 | Michael West, MW Media They sure were feeding the chooks the night before the MYEFO […]

News

Real agents of foreign interference

Despite the Morrison government’s complete distrust of Australia’s biggest trading partner, it’s not foreign governments who are having a lend of Canberra. Once again foreign entities dominate the list of corporations raking in billions of […]

News

The mutation of greed

According to Oxfam, three giant pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna, are generating $65,000 profit every single minute from their Covid-19 vaccines. Rich nations, like Australia, have hoarded vaccines and refused to allow third world […]

News

Quad, hardly shining democracies

How legitimate are the so called Quad’s implicit claims of moral and political superiority? Three of Australia’s last five PMs (Scott Morrison included) came to power knifing predecessors in backroom secret ballots; one in four […]

Comment

Human rights and wrongs

Why does Australia still sell weapons to human-rights abuser Saudi Arabia? As the kingdom wages war in Yemen, Canberra continues to supply arms, making us complicit in the deaths of innocent civilians. 8 December 2021 […]

Economy

Australian housing cool off?

Five reasons to expect a cooling in the Australian property market and falling prices in 2023 2 December 2021| Shane Oliver, AMP Capital (Image: Mitchell Luo) Fastest home price gains since 1989 Australian home prices have boomed […]