I am with the Senator No 7 on this one. Immigration doesn’t solve our core labour shortage problem but it can help. We need to focus on both quality and quantity. By that, I mean actively pursuing the right type of skills and their location while also actively adjusting numbers

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Some one finally did it. 😂

Great race Oscar Piastri. Controlled three safety car restarts with rat cunning in tricky conditions. Drove like a bat out of hell when required. Consummate professional race driver. The DNF for Lando Norris takes Piastri lead in the drivers championship to 34 points. Handy!

dissociating myself from "mclaren racing team" and instead focusing on this absolute insanity of a move by oscar on charles into lesmo 1

33 years ago, Westpac did a rights issue to raise capital in the wake of the “recession we had to have”. It was not a recession. It was a full blown financial crisis. Our GFC. Thankfully CSFB underwrote the issue. Let’s hope financial crisis are a thing of the past in Australia.

Good morning Sydney. Goodbye winter

RBA tippy toeing away from rate cuts. Next move is now evenly balanced to hike/cut. Timeframes are important as the rate cut window likely closes around mid 2026. Hike window opens around May 2026.

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Brisbane have never won both the NRL and AFL GFs in the same year. They have had the opportunity in the past, as they do tonight. Brisbane is the nerve centre of the great state of QLD. Australia’s growth state, on my current projection Queensland will overtake Victoria to be

The greatest race. It’s on!

Headline inflation heading back to 4%. Core inflation heading above 3%. RBA needs to be honest with the community next week. The message: next move in rates could be either way.

I second that. Go Fabo

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RBA SoMP: “we take some signal from recent inflation data for the inflation outlook”. RBA stepping away from rate cuts. Or are they tippy toeing towards a hike? We will only know as we get inflation data over the next 4 months.

RBA assigns some of the increase in core inflation to temporary factors. OK. Convenient. With monthly numbers rolling in from later this month there will be a massive focus on interest rates month to month, meeting to meeting.

The EQ Economics website has gone live. Eqeconomics.au. Check it out. Built for business. For anyone interested in Australia’s economic future.

Unemployment rate in Australia drops to 4.3% in October, reducing fears of a sudden weakening of the labour market. Urate is still trending up. A sure sign something has changed in our labour market. Weakest state economy (TAS) has lowest urate (3.9%)

The Victorian authorities want to take all the fun out life. ‘Even bananas!’