Australia’s renewables disaster has been created because Chris Bowen and the state ministers did not start with a budget. Instead, they set out their aims with no idea of the cost. And they actually started constructing without a proper cost plan.
Markets send a clear message. Interest rate reductions will not be tolerated while our governments spray salary money at increasing numbers of public servants and hinder productivity improvement.
The world’s capital markets are signalling that the US is setting a new pattern for world growth.
There is a good chance that out of the US presidential election will come dramatic change in the way ultra-processed foods are made and marketed in the US, Australia and the rest of the world.
Australians are understandably focusing on the dangerous implications of higher US tariffs. Just as serious is that Americans also voted for Donald Trump policies that reverse the ‘woke’ policies advocated by Kamala Harris.
Generation Z is bewildered that Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States but this generation stands to be the biggest beneficiary of the changes ahead.
Four key lessons from the counting in the US election: women misled pollsters; Musk led Trump to presidency; politicians believe expensive promises win votes; and Kamala Harris should have won easily.
Bunnings is the most trusted brand in the country, but its unrivalled success allegedly has a darker side that is set to be debated in a Senate inquiry.
Regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election, billionaire and Tesla boss Elon Musk is set to become the most powerful businessperson in US history.
I am increasingly optimistic that the nation-damaging superannuation legislation will not pass the Senate in its present, disastrous form.
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