On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released data showing that Victorians pay the highest state and local taxes in the nation. As illustrated below, state and local government taxes ...

Leading Iranian figures are criticising Donald Trump’s actions and threats, but there is still little indication that the US-Iran conflict can be resolved. Earlier this morning, Iranian President ...

The Australia Institute’s senior economist, Matt Grudnoff, has written another article blaming the capital gains tax (CGT) ...

In the Trump dimension, stocks only go up, all by themselves. TME with the charts. SPX Pushes Higher… Alone SPX keeps grinding higher… but the cross-asset picture is starting to diverge. Oil, vol, ...

The federal government touted the expanded 5% home deposit scheme, introduced on 1 October 2025, as an affordability measure. However, analysts, including me, cautioned that such demand-side ...

As usual, a day after the Parliament heard sense from policy advocates, the gas cartel was unleashed. Producers and industry groups warned that higher export levies could deter investment, reduce ...

Shortly after the war in the Middle East began and traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was reduced to a relative trickle, ...

Regional Australia stands to lose from the continuation of the ‘Big Australia’ mass migration policy. In 2000-01, Australia’s regions accounted for 35% of the population. As of 2024-25, the latest ...

According to 9News, the upcoming federal government is likely to see the Albanese government revert the capital gains tax (CGT) on property investment to the system in place before 1999, which taxed ...

JPM answers.  Iran’s onshore storage capacity is roughly 86 million barrels and is currently about 54% full (around 47 mb), leaving approximately 40 mb of working capacity—equivalent to about 22 days ...

When Australia went to the polls for the federal election in May last year, the two major parties combined for 66.4% of the vote, their lowest share since the founding of the Liberal Party over 80 ...

When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was first implemented in 2016, we warned that it would draw an army of scammers and middlemen looking for a piece of the multibillion-dollar honey ...