14+ hour, 6+ min ago   (347+ words) According to Cotality’s daily dwelling values index, home values across the five major capital city markets have declined by 5.2% from their 10 April 2026 peak. The biggest decline in 40 years of records, according to Cotality, was 8.6%, recorded between October 2017 and May 2019. At…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (93+ words) macrobusiness.com.au Australian unemployment kept lower by Only Fans Since the Albanese government came to power, one metric it has pointed to most as a sign of its economic management is the nation’s unemployment rate. In trend terms, the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (239+ words) David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (120+ words) When total Australian federal government debt recently ticked over the $1 trillion mark, it triggered a war of words over who should take the lion’s share of responsibility for reaching this undesirable milestone. In the view of opposition leader Angus Taylor,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (91+ words) Australia’s Evergrande moment as mega developer implodes MacroBusiness Australia’s Evergrande moment as mega developer implodes Amid the collapse of mega Australian developer Bathla, administrators have revealed that the company owes $3.3 billion, plus the deposits of thousands of buyers of off-the-plan…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (133+ words) Just when you thought the Albanese government’s gaslighting over the housing crisis couldn’t get any lower, Anika Wells, the Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport, published the following videos on social media equating the housing crisis to the supply…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (78+ words) Bureaucrat bloat is crushing Australia’s productivity MacroBusiness Bureaucrat bloat is crushing Australia’s productivity Luke Kinsella at The AFR has written a fantastic report on the rising number of federal public servants under the Albanese government. Australia’s federal public service has…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (124+ words) I reported last week on The Age newspaper’s interactive tool showing what Melbourne will look like when its population soars beyond 10 million. The modelling suggests that six activity centres will be denser than anything that exists in Melbourne today: The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (111+ words) MacroBusiness Developers send warning as new home sales collapse As has been well documented, Australian dwelling completions are tracking 27% (112,400) below the National Housing Accord’s target of 1.2 million homes over five years, which requires a construction run rate of 240,000 homes a…...