Australia’s Property Bubble: It’s Here
From the Sydney Morning Herald: It’s official: 60 per cent of investors believe Australia has a property bubble. A confluence of housing shortages, low interest rates, speculative fervour and last...
View ArticleForeign Investors Spooked, See Risks Down Under
From the Sunday Telegraph: Greece isn’t the only country giving investors the jitters. While Australia’s challenges pale in comparison to those currently plaguing the debt-laden European nation, they...
View ArticleWhy I Hang Farther To The Left Than Bob Brown
Got your attention with that headline? Good. Because on the topic of Australia’s last remaining real source of wealth – “our” natural resources – and, on the directly related topic of who should own...
View ArticleChina Stops Encouraging Foreign Investment
Riddle me this. A “developing” nation of 1.3 billion people, a country that is supposedly the “engine of growth” for “a new era” in the world economy, stops encouraging foreign investment in its local...
View ArticleBarnaby: People Want A Positive Future
Senator Joyce writes for the Canberra Times (my emphasis added): One of the useful parts of the obligatory election trudge around the countryside is that meetings, functions and party events become a...
View ArticleBarnaby Sells Out?
From the Australian: BARNABY Joyce, who has built his political career opposing foreign investment, is under fire for hypocrisy after giving his blessing to the sale of two of the Northern Territory’s...
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