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This summer, Australians of all backgrounds and ethnicities must ask themselves whether the great Australian dream of multiculturalism has failed.…
Australia’s never-ending recession | The Spectator Australia
2024年12月14日 · The recession of 2023-24 is the longest per-capita downturn on record, since the Australian Bureau of Statistics started keeping track back in 1973. The latest data released last week shows that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person has now shrunk for seven consecutive quarters. The second longest ...
The Pub Test: The real state of the Australian economy
6 天之前 · Labor’s machine is out in force this Christmas in a vain attempt to recover the electoral ground that is collapsing under its feet. My feed on X is replete with comments telling me how John Howard and Peter Costello taxed us more than Jimbo and then mostly squandered it. Peter Garrett is tweeting ...
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Richard Loncraine and Peter Broxton, designers of surreal ‘executive toys’ in the 1960s, reveal the frailty and vanity of a time when ‘poets, pop stars and miniskirts were everywhere’
Tag: AU News | The Spectator Australia
HMNZS Manawanui, formally a chirpy red and yellow MV Edda Fonn, sank on October 6 much to the shock of…
A nation divided | The Spectator Australia
With Labor’s Bob Hawke as Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991, there was a desire to break away from Britain and with it came an attempt to recast Australia’s identity and positioning, by emphasising its geographical location and economic ties with the Asia Pacific region.
Australia’s energy policy is all coming badly unstuck
2024年11月21日 · But the illusion is now becoming recognised for what it is. Last weekend, the reputable consultancy, Frontier Economics, issued a report that recalibrated the data assembled by AEMO.Frontier expressed AEMO’s estimates in real 2024 dollars and added in the known transmission costs ($62 billion) to arrive at an aggregate total cost of $642 billion.
Leadership vacuum | The Spectator Australia
The Minister for Home Affairs’ brash responses are hollow when she has withheld key information and didn’t obtain either legal advice or a planned response until too late.
Pandemic questions that demand answers | The Spectator Australia
2024年9月21日 · The Australian people now have two outrages concerning the Covid pandemic. There’s the response to Covid, and there’s the response to the response to Covid, which is one of complete and utter disinterest.
Retrieving Australia’s energy policy disaster
Placing these numbers in perspective, replacing Australia’s 21 gigawatts of existing coal plant – which supplies over 60 per cent of electricity – would cost $3 billion per gigawatt or $63 billion with no need for battery backup or additional transmission.