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Australia’s housing crisis is rooted in financial deregulation and debt-driven banking. This article explores structural reforms—from lending controls to equity solutions—to restore affordability and social cohesion.

Income splitting is a type of family tax policy that treats the family, rather than the individual, as the basis of taxation. It allows couples to pool and then split their incomes for tax purposes, thus reducing the tax paid on the highest earning partner.

For the last two decades, the Australian and Canadian economies have been afflicted by a similar housing bubble, but there have been recent signs in Canada that the party is coming to an end.

What lessons, if any, can Australia take from U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-business One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB)? On the face of it, it is designed to deal with a problem that Australia faces to an even greater extent: the decline in the manufacturing base.

Insurance companies will have to do more than just price the risk of accidents, unexpected crimes or natural crises. They may have to start pricing ideological risk, especially when it comes from the left wing of the political spectrum.

A major contributor to the runaway rise in housing prices in Australia has been the deregulation of the finance sector that has taken place over the past four decades.

“Climate change”, a deliberately vague phrase, is actually a battle over political systems rather than a debate about the science of global warming. That political contest is entering a new phase.