robert2013Shvets is an interesting thinker and gets paid an awful lot of money to make an awful lot of money for Macquarie. He is Russia born, Australian citizen, but has been based in Hong Kong for decades. MB has shared his stuff before. He sometimes appears on Macrobusiness, and elsewhere. I went to his website … Read more
This started out as a reply to Lord K’s post here https://www.ezfka.com/2025/02/22/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/#comment-71078. But since it ended up being an essay and since we need a new post, here it is. We are all pretty upset about the theft of our country by hostile elites, but outrage is just a beginning. You can’t stay outraged. It’s … Read more
Western government, including the USA and Australia have government departments whose role is to audit the performance of the government. This begs a couple of questions: 1. Why did Trump create DOGE rather than give Musk authority over the US Government Accountability Office (USGAO)? I’m not saying that he necessarily was wrong to do so, … Read more
Drew Pavlou posted this and it’s been picked up by onenation: It purports to show an Israeli being told by a muslim nurse in Australia that she is killing jews in Australian hospitals. Given the passing of the hate speech laws, this may have been staged to justify them. It is normal not to trust … Read more
The claim that mass immigration began as part of the ‘populate or perish’ doctrine post WW2 only part of the story and neglects important context. Marc Moncrieff read Arthur Calwell’s memoirs and wrote this review: https://xyz.net.au/2025/01/arthur-calwell-and-his-memoirs-be-just-and-fear-not He quotes: “If Australians have learned one lesson from the Pacific war….it is surely that we cannot continue to … Read more
I have been checking out Kalgoorlie in the data. There are 225 properties for sale and 75 for rent according to realestate.com.au . Growth has been tapering even as Perth continued to go nuts: https://www.yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au/top-suburbs/wa/6430-kalgoorlie (go to the bottom for links to the other kalgoorlie suburbs) From ABS: https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2016/LGA54280 2016 population: 30,059 2021 population: 29,306 … Read more
The protests in favour Hezbollah are just the beginning. Mass immigration has already destroyed the old Australian culture. https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/09/multicultralism-disintegrates It’s destroyed the private sector and productivity: https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/10/canadian-and-australian-economies-live-off-the-public-teat https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/10/chalmers-productivity-sinkhole-deepens There is worse to come: “There are three solvents of social trust: 1) the self-aggrandizement of insiders; 2) decay of competence, and 3) precarity, generated by soaring … Read more
https://unherd.com/2024/09/how-culture-warriors-exploited-creative-scotland Here’s another example of transactivists abusing society. Expecting the whole world to act as if you are a women (or man) when you are clearly not is no different to asking people to say they love big brother, when they do not. Making someone call you a woman when you are a man, and … Read more
Far out, step away for a day and the place goes nuts! A big welcome back to Poochy (Peachy?) and NoMansLand! I can’t say I read the whole last thread, but it seems like mix of interesting and useful contributions and a flame war. I’m especially impressed with Stewie’s ability to recall and locate old … Read more
Interesting Russian fertility data. After collapse in 1990s, bottoming in 2000, Russian fertility has been rising ever since, but may be stalling. Obviously a degree of prosperity and comfort is necessary for people to want to breed given they have choice in a contraceptive culture. The time of elites relying on taxing the excess profits … Read more
50% of Australia’s exports are from mining and another 18% from “energy”. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook47p/AustralianTradeFigures Volumes are forecast to go up to 2029, but prices and net export earnings are expected to fall https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/resources-and-energy-quarterly-march-2024 Remittances currently took about USD 5 billion from our current account in 2022. That’s more than this year’s entire current account deficit. Also, … Read more
Following comment disappearance, I have resorted to making a post MB goes off it’s nut in “ABC positions Annabel for numberless immigration barrage”. https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/06/abc-sites-annabel-for-numberless-immigration-barrage/ They still don’t get it. A long essay that demonstrates they think that the readership, the electorate and the polity in general respond to reason. That time is long past, if … Read more