👤 Patrick Commins

2026-10-26 · The Guardian · Politics

The chaos in France is a ‘warning signal’ for Australia’s public spending and rising costs

22 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right

2026-09-17 · The Guardian · Politics

Amid claims of ‘mass migration’, Labor hopes a measured approach will take the hot air out of the debate

10 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-09-29 · The Guardian · Economy/Business

Danger zone: why war in the Middle East has landed the RBA’s inflation fight in tricky territory

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2026-10-28 · The Guardian · Economy/Business

Australia’s inflation rate rises to 4.3%, fuelling fears of fifth interest rate hike this year

3 outlets covered this event

2026-11-04 · The Guardian · Economy/Business

Australia has an especially bad inflation problem. So why are we only middle-of-the pack on the misery index?

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

2026-10-23 · The Guardian · Politics

Jim Chalmers faces a world of hard choices where the solution to one problem makes the other worse

no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

2026-09-17 · The Guardian

🔮 Tony Burke has promised to make Labor’s existing migration policy work better rather than announcing a dramatic cut in numbers, arguing that populist promises to slash net overseas migration will “trash Australian services and trash the Australian economy”. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Guardian

🔮 Yet there are signs that the central bank may be losing faith in this “slowly, slowly” strategy. assertive

2026-10-04 · The Guardian

🔮 Would slashing net overseas migration “trash the economy” or deliver the necessary population “reset” to restore Australia’s stagnant living standards? assertive

2026-10-11 · The Guardian

🔮 Mark Cully, an economist and author of Waves of Plenty: Immigration and the Making of Australia, says such a policy would be “unprecedented”. assertive

2026-10-13 · The Guardian

🔮 Stephen Wu, an economist at investment bank UBS, said resilient consumer demand and a high inflation environment “may be allowing merchants to use the change as ‘cover’ to pass through broader cost pressures”. mixed

2026-10-23 · The Guardian

🔮 Jim Chalmers in a speech last week offered the scant encouragement that the economy would be “a bit better” in a year’s time. assertive

2026-10-26 · The Guardian

🔮 The explosion of discontent that led to major protests and violence in France and across Europe is a “warning signal” that Australia could follow the same path without an “honest conversation” about the budget, economists say. assertive

2026-10-28 · The Guardian

🔮 The Reserve Bank of Australia’s preferred measure of consumer prices, called underlying inflation, came in at an annual 3.6% to September. RBA officials have strongly indicated the board may need to lift borrowing costs further to drag price growth back toward its 2.5% target, citing concerns of a “materially worse” inflation outlook. assertive

2026-11-04 · The Guardian

🔮 A day after the Reserve Bank delivered its fifth interest rate hike for the year, increasingly stressed mortgage holders would be justified asking. assertive