The Soccer World Cup in the US starts in June, but some players, and fans wanting to visit, may not be allowed in. Andrew Gardiner reports on travel risks. Australia’s World Cup-bound Socceroos face an anxious wait over the next few months on whether Jackson Irvine can play. Irvine –
Joel Makower who runs Trellis in the US (previously GreenBiz) and Sydney based sustainability stalwart Bruce Precious both had some views to share about the outlook for the year ahead. Meanwhile the army wants to sell some fantastic real estate in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Imagine if these sites were made over to social and affordable ...
Rising urban heat, increasing density, declining canopy cover and fragmented governance are no longer abstract challenges – they are daily realities confronting planners, councils, designers and infrastructure leaders across the country. While ambition for greener, cooler cities is growing, policy, funding and delivery systems are struggling to keep ...
Ben Potter wrote for The Energy that the Abbott-era Emissions Reduction Fund, government policy to encourage carbon abatement projects, is undergoing a “slow and financially painful” burial.
The policy involves encouraging organisations and individuals to adopt carbon abatement projects such as soil sequestration, reafforestation and vegetation ...
Gina Rinehart, James Packer, and a network of wealthy business figures among major financial backers of right-wing lobby group Advance Australia prior to the 2025 election. Stephanie Tran reports. In the 2024-25 financial year Advance reported $13.5 million in receipts. However, the sources of only $5.3 million of the funds
This is my last edition as Editor as I am leaving Firstlinks to become Commsec’s Equity Market Strategist.
Morningstar’s Director of Personal Finance, Mark LaMonica, will take over the role until a permanent replacement is found.
It’s been a privilege to work at Firstlinks. I came here three-and-a-half years ago to help Graham Hand. He wanted to focus ...
“Israel’s President Herzog should be arrested on arrival [to Australia] for the crime of incitement to genocide,” UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti told MWM. Australia invites a president accused by the United Nations of inciting genocide. So what now? When the Albanese Government quietly confirmed that Israel’s President Isaac Herzog would
The Queensland government has become the latest to be sucked into the idea that housing abundance will magically solve the housing crisis.
In justifying why the government was selling a swathe of vacant state owned land to the private sector, with no mandates for social housing at all, the Deputy Premier, Jarrod Bleijie, dropped lines that you’d think ...
The disability accommodation new build program is worth about $4 billion so far, dominated by a handful of big investment funds, but it needs a shakeup.
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The Reserve Bank raised the base interest rate by a modest 0.25% yesterday. But even modest moves carry outsized consequences for many. Harry Chemay reports. “The Board judged that inflation is likely to remain above target for some time and it was appropriate to increase the cash target rate.” So
The RBA has increased interest rates to tame inflation and there’s no shortage of knee jerk reactions. About how it hurts homeowners (of course); about what the RBA will do next, even though almost no one forecast the rate rise a mere four months ago; and about how the government is or isn’t to blame, depending on which side of politics you support.
A ...
While the latest Division 296 draft legislation may have dispensed with an unrealised capital gains tax component, it still has the whiff of a wealth tax about it. That’s because the effective tax rate on earnings, including any realised capital gains, is tied to the Total Superannuation Balance (TSB) and not just the earned income itself.
Though ...
The Soccer World Cup in the US starts in June, but some players, and fans wanting to visit, may not be allowed in. Andrew Gardiner reports on travel risks. Australia’s World Cup-bound Socceroos face an anxious wait over the next few months on whether Jackson Irvine can play. Irvine –
Joel Makower who runs Trellis in the US (previously GreenBiz) and Sydney based sustainability stalwart Bruce Precious both had some views to share about the outlook for the year ahead. Meanwhile the army wants to sell some fantastic real estate in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Imagine if these sites were made over to social and affordable ...
Rising urban heat, increasing density, declining canopy cover and fragmented governance are no longer abstract challenges – they are daily realities confronting planners, councils, designers and infrastructure leaders across the country. While ambition for greener, cooler cities is growing, policy, funding and delivery systems are struggling to keep ...
Ben Potter wrote for The Energy that the Abbott-era Emissions Reduction Fund, government policy to encourage carbon abatement projects, is undergoing a “slow and financially painful” burial.
The policy involves encouraging organisations and individuals to adopt carbon abatement projects such as soil sequestration, reafforestation and vegetation ...
Gina Rinehart, James Packer, and a network of wealthy business figures among major financial backers of right-wing lobby group Advance Australia prior to the 2025 election. Stephanie Tran reports. In the 2024-25 financial year Advance reported $13.5 million in receipts. However, the sources of only $5.3 million of the funds
This is my last edition as Editor as I am leaving Firstlinks to become Commsec’s Equity Market Strategist.
Morningstar’s Director of Personal Finance, Mark LaMonica, will take over the role until a permanent replacement is found.
It’s been a privilege to work at Firstlinks. I came here three-and-a-half years ago to help Graham Hand. He wanted to focus ...
“Israel’s President Herzog should be arrested on arrival [to Australia] for the crime of incitement to genocide,” UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti told MWM. Australia invites a president accused by the United Nations of inciting genocide. So what now? When the Albanese Government quietly confirmed that Israel’s President Isaac Herzog would
The Queensland government has become the latest to be sucked into the idea that housing abundance will magically solve the housing crisis.
In justifying why the government was selling a swathe of vacant state owned land to the private sector, with no mandates for social housing at all, the Deputy Premier, Jarrod Bleijie, dropped lines that you’d think ...
The disability accommodation new build program is worth about $4 billion so far, dominated by a handful of big investment funds, but it needs a shakeup.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Since the National Disability Insurance ...
The Reserve Bank raised the base interest rate by a modest 0.25% yesterday. But even modest moves carry outsized consequences for many. Harry Chemay reports. “The Board judged that inflation is likely to remain above target for some time and it was appropriate to increase the cash target rate.” So
The RBA has increased interest rates to tame inflation and there’s no shortage of knee jerk reactions. About how it hurts homeowners (of course); about what the RBA will do next, even though almost no one forecast the rate rise a mere four months ago; and about how the government is or isn’t to blame, depending on which side of politics you support.
A ...
While the latest Division 296 draft legislation may have dispensed with an unrealised capital gains tax component, it still has the whiff of a wealth tax about it. That’s because the effective tax rate on earnings, including any realised capital gains, is tied to the Total Superannuation Balance (TSB) and not just the earned income itself.
Though ...