Did Labor just jump the shark?
The next Australian election just went from a sure thing to wide open.
13 May 2026
Archived posts
The one line that matters in Australia's Budget
If you want to know whether a government is leaving the next generation better off, watch what it spends, not what it taxes.
12 May 2026
Why Western Australia is squandering generational wealth
And how to fix it for the future.
10 May 2026
Call it Jimflation
Australia's inflation is home brewed.
7 May 2026
The intergenerational ruse
The coming budget isn't really about helping young Australians.
5 May 2026
Australia should legalise nuclear
Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Japan are reversing course. Yet Australia is still pretending it has a choice.
4 May 2026
Canada's borrowed wealth
Canada might be getting a sovereign wealth fund. Whether Canadians ever get any wealth out of it is a different question.
30 April 2026
Australia's coming inflation
The Strait of Hormuz delivered the price shock. Whether it becomes inflation is up to Canberra and Martin Place.
27 April 2026
Gas, taxes, and wishful thinking
Comparing Australia's gas tax to Norway's is a masterclass in false equivalence that ignores physical and economic reality.
24 April 2026
Low debt buys you optionality
Australia has been burning its fiscal buffers in the good times, leaving it with little in the tank for the next real crisis.
17 April 2026