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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings Look upon my works and despair. So basically labor want to reform the entire immigration system to make it even more fast-tracked, more facilitating to migrants and even easier to rort. You won’t even need to rort it, because it’ll be so easy to migrate to Australia after … Read more
Yo so I was watching Q&A because I felt like some serious self torture tonite and one question asked by an audience member really got me. The question came in at 8:13, the audience member asked what the government was going to do to support young people in the midst of a housing crisis. This … Read more
One of the most legendary commenters on MacroBusiness. We all knew this guy. We didn’t know who he was, where his numbers came from, and how much of them were embellished. He was the boiler plate man; a guy who would repeatedly post some modified/varied statistic heavy spiel in nearly every thread detailing the horror … Read more
It’s the end of 2022! Another year at this place. Man this year has seen a lot happen, or not happen. This thread will be a runover of every major notable thing that has occured over the last year which has gripped the interest of this blog. I’ll provide some brief commentary and perspectives on … Read more
According to the ABC anyway. You know what this means. These falls will no longer be falls in probably one year and will resume their inexorable rise shortly after. We’ve got more migrants than we’ve ever had preparing to flood into Australia on top of what looks like a petering out inflation ‘crisis’ (could MB … Read more
This could all be tentative information as of yet, but I have strong reason to believe that Russia has now withdrawn from Kherson city. Without a fight. I think this is big enough news to warrant a post. General Surovikin, the commander of the Russian army in Ukraine, suggested that this was a decision he … Read more
If anyone has been following the Ukraine war lately, they would have noticed from that Ukrainian army has recently taken back a fairly sizable chunk of territory in the direction of the city of Kharkov. Occuring earlier this month, Ukraine marched into Kharkov rather unexpectatly with a force of maybe 8000 men (some sources are … Read more
Over some given timeframe from now, what are your expectations for housing prices? What will prices be like in given Aus markets over the next 18-24 / whatever / months? Do you think they’re going down and staying down or is this just another false alarm? 20% falls? 50% falls? What will happen! Let’s talk … Read more
Anyone else remember covid? I barely do. It lasted two whole years, driving the world and especially Australia into a giant panic. It revealed a significant proportion of the population to be hyperbolic retards, and turned neighbours and families against each other over how much everybody agreed or disagreed whether the threat it posed was … Read more
So this is a genuine question/discussion thread, I was getting to thinking earlier today. I read some thread on reddit AusFinance (link here) with some expat guy in Thailand who got offered a job in Sydney for 130K a year, and everyone in the thread was telling him it was a bad idea to move … Read more
Who remembers these guys? Macro spruiked them as the next big thing like four years ago. I was curious about how they did in the election so I went to the ABC vote totals that showed how all the parties did, and scrolled down the list. Waaaay down the list. 3000 votes, holy shit they … Read more
