Australia’s Former PM Scott Morrison will join far-right political figures as a keynote speaker at an Israel-sponsored antisemitism conference later this month. Stephanie Tran reports. Scott Morrison is billed as a keynote speaker at the Generation Truth antisemitism conference in Israel later this month, an event which has drawn criticism
The arrest of alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade, Kazem “Kaz” Hamad, is a win for law enforcement, but what does it mean for the trade? Criminologist James Martin asks. Declared by an Iraqi court to be “one of the most dangerous wanted men in the world”, Hamad is
News from the front desk: Welcome back! The year is still too fresh and unsteady on its feet for us to predict how it will bend and what shape it will grow into. So, let’s take full advantage and slap down some blueprints right up front. See if we can seize the agenda and channel the trajectory.
As a publication focused on ways to create a more ...
Who knew copper could be sexy? It is for Australia’s mining giants which are falling over themselves to get more exposure to the metal.
Recently, Rio Tinto proposed a $300 million merger with Glencore to create the world’s largest miner. It’s essentially a takeover and through it, Rio wants to increase earnings from copper and the AI data centre theme ...
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Australia is running an opportunity deficit in its biggest cities. Housing, congestion and service pressures are eroding the everyday “deal” in Sydney and Melbourne. The question is no longer whether people and investment will look elsewhere, but ...
President Trump has adopted the position that in international relations, ‘might is right’. What does that mean for smaller, not so mighty countries? Former senator Rex Patrick asks. Donald Trump’s new ‘Donroe doctrine‘ has been applied to the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela, threats to neighbouring Colombia, and his
Cancelled writer Randa Abdel-Fattah has launched defamation action against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.
The post Malinauskas spurred by ‘Murdoch press’ and ‘pro-Israel lobby’, says cancelled writer appeared first on The Klaxon.
Federal Parliament will be recalled next week to debate and pass new hate speech laws in the wake of the Bondi massacre. But will it target all hate speech? Al The Writer asks. It’s being hailed as the “toughest hate laws Australia has ever seen” in response to the devastating Bondi Beach
In 2023, I wrote an article that proved popular – ‘The challenges of building a lazy portfolio’. It was about how I had spare cash at the time and wanted to create a simple, long-term portfolio with exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The aim was to capture the performance of markets at low cost via such funds.
What I thought would be an easy task turned ...
Editor's note: the following is a perspective on US markets.
All valuation measures (price/cash flows, price/book, etc.) on the S&P 500 are at all-time highs except for P/Es but we are at 2.5 standard deviations on P/E. Even median valuations are near all-time highs at a P/E of 19. The equal weight indices are lower than the median stock ...
When we talk about Australia’s housing crisis, the focus tends to fall on two things: supply versus demand. This article looks at one aspect of supply which is often (well frankly almost always) overlooked – spare bedrooms.
Now the headlines cry “Build more homes,” and yes - in many cases, that’s the right answer.
But what if – just what if – we ...
You’ve got a lump sum of cash, and you want to start investing in the stock market. You might consider ploughing it all in today. But then you worry: what if the share market then slumps?
Fortunately, there is a wealth of data available that can help investors make better-informed decisions.
Below, for the last 50 years of Australian share market data ...
Australia’s Former PM Scott Morrison will join far-right political figures as a keynote speaker at an Israel-sponsored antisemitism conference later this month. Stephanie Tran reports. Scott Morrison is billed as a keynote speaker at the Generation Truth antisemitism conference in Israel later this month, an event which has drawn criticism
The arrest of alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade, Kazem “Kaz” Hamad, is a win for law enforcement, but what does it mean for the trade? Criminologist James Martin asks. Declared by an Iraqi court to be “one of the most dangerous wanted men in the world”, Hamad is
News from the front desk: Welcome back! The year is still too fresh and unsteady on its feet for us to predict how it will bend and what shape it will grow into. So, let’s take full advantage and slap down some blueprints right up front. See if we can seize the agenda and channel the trajectory.
As a publication focused on ways to create a more ...
Who knew copper could be sexy? It is for Australia’s mining giants which are falling over themselves to get more exposure to the metal.
Recently, Rio Tinto proposed a $300 million merger with Glencore to create the world’s largest miner. It’s essentially a takeover and through it, Rio wants to increase earnings from copper and the AI data centre theme ...
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Australia is running an opportunity deficit in its biggest cities. Housing, congestion and service pressures are eroding the everyday “deal” in Sydney and Melbourne. The question is no longer whether people and investment will look elsewhere, but ...
President Trump has adopted the position that in international relations, ‘might is right’. What does that mean for smaller, not so mighty countries? Former senator Rex Patrick asks. Donald Trump’s new ‘Donroe doctrine‘ has been applied to the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela, threats to neighbouring Colombia, and his
Cancelled writer Randa Abdel-Fattah has launched defamation action against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.
The post Malinauskas spurred by ‘Murdoch press’ and ‘pro-Israel lobby’, says cancelled writer appeared first on The Klaxon.
Federal Parliament will be recalled next week to debate and pass new hate speech laws in the wake of the Bondi massacre. But will it target all hate speech? Al The Writer asks. It’s being hailed as the “toughest hate laws Australia has ever seen” in response to the devastating Bondi Beach
In 2023, I wrote an article that proved popular – ‘The challenges of building a lazy portfolio’. It was about how I had spare cash at the time and wanted to create a simple, long-term portfolio with exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The aim was to capture the performance of markets at low cost via such funds.
What I thought would be an easy task turned ...
Editor's note: the following is a perspective on US markets.
All valuation measures (price/cash flows, price/book, etc.) on the S&P 500 are at all-time highs except for P/Es but we are at 2.5 standard deviations on P/E. Even median valuations are near all-time highs at a P/E of 19. The equal weight indices are lower than the median stock ...
When we talk about Australia’s housing crisis, the focus tends to fall on two things: supply versus demand. This article looks at one aspect of supply which is often (well frankly almost always) overlooked – spare bedrooms.
Now the headlines cry “Build more homes,” and yes - in many cases, that’s the right answer.
But what if – just what if – we ...
You’ve got a lump sum of cash, and you want to start investing in the stock market. You might consider ploughing it all in today. But then you worry: what if the share market then slumps?
Fortunately, there is a wealth of data available that can help investors make better-informed decisions.
Below, for the last 50 years of Australian share market data ...