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State Premiers are performing generosity with a GST windfall that doesn't exist, adding to debt and stoking inflation at the worst possible time.

Australia's fuel reserves are thin, but they aren't the reason you're paying more at the pump.

Almost every proposed response to Australia's fuel crisis would make it worse.

The RBA spent 2025 fuelling a fire it now lacks the credibility to extinguish.

When your political strategy relies on a version of the economy that hasn't existed since 1960, a historic bloodbath is the only logical outcome.

The biggest risk for Australia isn't the oil shock itself but that the urge to "do something" worsens the situation before the crisis is resolved.

Australia's current oil crisis is a race between a rapid global supply response and the domestic urge to 'do something' that inevitably makes the situation worse.

The CGT debate is a distraction from a much harder truth: Australia's tax and transfer system is no longer fit for an aging population.

Australia's underlying inflation problem was made in Canberra and Martin Place, not Tehran.

The risk to Australia isn't using AI built elsewhere but letting domestic incumbents like CBA use 'sovereignty' as a shield for protectionism.