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Albo's immigration tsunami rolls on. macrobusiness.com.au/2024/04/albo-d…

Alan Kohler is speaking a very different tune on immigration now that Labor is in power. Under the Coalition, immigration had to be cut. But under Labor, lower immigration is suddenly risky. macrobusiness.com.au/2024/05/alan-k…

Put another Aussie on the Barbie medium.com/@matt_11659/pu…

Overseas students are taking advantage of food charities. 😳 Many are getting their weekly groceries from charity and releasing how-to guides on taking advantage of the system. MORE: brnw.ch/21wLtL7

The $48 billion international student "export" lie has been exposed. Just follow the money (remittances). macrobusiness.com.au/2024/07/stop-c…

Imagine being an Aussie kid, working hard at school to get into Melbourne University, and then finding that classes are conducted in another language. This is why Australia needs strong international student caps. The situation is beyond a farce. abc.net.au/listen/program…

Wow, this chart from Leith van Onselen really illustrates why Australian construction struggles to keep up with population growth, even though Australia builds far more homes than on average.

Will Albo target the rampant 'shrinkflation' in housing? Nope. Because it is state-sponsored. What a flog. macrobusiness.com.au/2024/10/albane…

Australians brace for second boom in defective apartments macrobusiness.com.au/2024/10/austra…

This is a great chart from Leith van Onselen The value of Aussie housing stock (the actual residential structures) relative to GDP has remained in a relatively tight range for 34 years. Meanwhile, the ABS assessed value of land relative to GDP has risen ~3x.

It is such an antiquated view that people that live in greenfield estates are really far away from work. Some yes, but a lot of people buy in those markets because they work locally and have no need or desire to go to the CBD.

It is a good question from Leith van Onselen Why do implied population estimates from the national accounts and the actual ERP data yesterday differ so much. Is there a statistical reason Australian Bureau of Statistics ? Is there a simple benchmarking explanation? macrobusiness.com.au/2024/12/whats-…

The ABS appears to be another government agency that has been politicised. The federal government explicitly uses monthly permanent & long-term arrivals/departures data as a leading indicator of NOM, but the media can't, apparently. macrobusiness.com.au/2025/08/abs-tr…

Yes supply issues that are well known and longstanding so why not consider the impact of increased demand whether that be from migration, stimulus from governments, lower interest rates etc. No economist would single out one factor to an issue like this but nor would one omit a

This article in the Guardian has to be the biggest own goal pro-immigration modeling we've ever seen. A 🧵 theguardian.com/business/2025/…