Blogotariat

Oz Blog News Commentary

Articles from MacroBusiness

Bruised bets and market bubbles

September 26, 2025 - 09:00 -- Admin

From The Market Ear: Here we go DXY breaking above the negative trend line, closing well above the 50 day… and attempting the 100 day. More on the crowded short dollar. The dollar shorty CTAs running big DXY shorts. So far… …this is just a much needed correction. SPX supports: 21 day at 6625, trend

Hastie offers Australians a genuine choice on immigration

September 26, 2025 - 08:00 -- Admin

It is essential to understand Australia’s immigration policy within its historical context. During the first 60 years following World War II, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per year, with only two years exceeding 150,000. In the 15 years of ‘Big Australia’ immigration preceding the pandemic, NOM averaged 220,000 per year, a 145% increase

Australian renters should champion lower immigration

September 26, 2025 - 00:05 -- Admin

Australian renters have suffered disproportionately at the hands of record immigration levels, which saw an astonishing 1,227,000 net migrants arrive in Australia over the 33 months to Q1 2025. As shown below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, most of these migrants arrived through the temporary migration system and required rental housing. As a result, advertised

Aussie interest rate hopes are evaporating

September 25, 2025 - 14:00 -- Admin

Belinda Allen, CBA’s Head of Australian Economics, believes that the probability of further rate cuts has slimmed amid stronger domestic economic data and stubborn inflationary pressures. Markets are effectively pricing no chance of a cut in September following the stronger August CPI indicator. November market pricing has also shifted from a 70% probability to around

Are Australians delusional?

September 25, 2025 - 13:00 -- Admin

With the release of the latest Westpac – Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) survey on Industrial Trends, a concerning divergence has emerged between economic expectations and actual performance across a wide array of different metrics. Over the nearly 30-year scope of the Westpac-ACCI index, the actual assessed performance has tracked the expected performance

Australia transforms into nation of bureaucrats

September 25, 2025 - 12:10 -- Admin

Earlier this month, Ex-NSW Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner for Japan and Korea Michael Newman lambasted the size of Australia’s bureaucracy, claiming we had one of the world’s largest number of public sector workers per head of population. Newman claimed that Australia has 140 public servants for every 1,000 people. By comparison, Japan has 38 per

Canada shows the LNP the way

September 25, 2025 - 11:30 -- Admin

As infighting within the Liberal Party continues over the party’s leadership and its stance on Net Zero, things continue to deteriorate. Electoral demographics continue to shift against them, as the proportion of people living in rented homes increases and their strongest established base of support passes away. According to sources within the Victorian Liberal Party,

Sydneysiders pay for endless population growth

September 25, 2025 - 11:00 -- Admin

Neither politicians nor supporters of a Big Australia immigration policy acknowledge the significance of water. Several reports have warned that Australia will face chronic water shortages and rising water prices as its population grows by millions, due to persistently high immigration. Infrastructure Australia’s 2017 modelling predicted that household water bills would quadruple over 50 years

Pages