The Aporia · Shane Wright

2026-09-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Housing affordability craters to record low despite fall in prices

🔮 According to realestate.com.au, a median-income household earning $125,000 a year could afford just 12 per cent of all homes sold in the 2025-26 financial year. assertive

2026-09-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Government closes in on $100m social media fines

🔮 Social media companies could be slugged with fines of more than $100 million if they fail to do more to keep under-16s off their sites under an Albanese government bill set to go before the Senate on Tuesday. assertive

2026-09-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The not-so-golden handcuffs costing workers $2500 a year

🔮 Contractual handcuffs that prevent people on less than $190,000 from moving to a better-paying or more interesting job would be banned under proposed laws to be unveiled by the federal government on Monday. mixed

2026-09-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Super-sized political battle: Chalmers issues warning on ‘existential threat’

🔮 The cost of the age pension to taxpayers will fall even as more than 9 million people reach retirement age over the next 40 years, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will reveal on Wednesday amid accusations that the next election will be an existential fight for the future of superannuation. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

How 12 people you probably don’t know knocked down Donald Trump

🔮 Throw in the AI building boom that Westpac analysts this week estimated could be worth $110 billion by 2029 while unleashing up to $50 billion in related renewable energy and the private sector is also adding to inflation pressures. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia’s population hits 27.9 million as newborn numbers dip

🔮 But the new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the government still faces a battle to reach its own budget forecasts amid accusations from the Coalition that the country is on an immigration “highway to hell”. assertive

2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald

What six failed predictions taught Australia about its future

🔮 There is one certainty about Jim Chalmers’ upcoming intergenerational report – it will be wrong. assertive

2026-09-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald

150,000 words, zero guarantees: Bullock’s high-stakes interest rate revolution

🔮 While Bullock’s predecessor, Philip Lowe, had done a handful of press conferences during the pandemic, the event on February 6, 2024, marked a critical turning point in how the Reserve Bank would explain interest rates, the economy and even the inflationary impact of major touring artists. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Trust tax overhaul set to raise $40b as businesses warn of accounting turmoil

🔮 Business groups are warning years of expensive turmoil will be unleashed by the federal government’s plans for a minimum tax on discretionary trusts as Treasurer Jim Chalmers warns that without reform, the nation’s tax revenue will be eaten away, leaving working Australians exposed to even higher taxes. assertive

2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald

RBA on notice to hold off on rate rises as jobless rate hits 5-year high

🔮 The jobless rate would have been higher but for a 0.2 percentage point drop in the participation rate which measures the number of people in work or looking for it. assertive

2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The three factors driving NSW unemployment to a five-year high

🔮 If not for a fall in the labour force participation rate – the share of people in work or looking for work – last month’s jobless rate in NSW would have been higher. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

How One Nation’s negative migration plans would drive up debt by $275b

🔮 Australia’s budget would remain mired in deficit for more than 10 years under One Nation’s plans for lower migration, delivering an economic blow that would drive up national debt by an extra $275 billion. assertive

2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Reserve Bank in ‘nightmare’ position as it considers another rate rise in November

🔮 Andrew Hauser used an event in Sydney on Wednesday to argue the RBA was facing a “central bankers’ nightmare” with signs that some businesses believe an inflation rate of between 3 and 3.5 per cent could be the new norm for Australia – well above the bank’s 2-3 per cent target it has struggled to hit over the past four years. assertive

2026-10-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

What would you cut? Chalmers challenges critics of government spending

🔮 The budget recorded a deficit of $22.2 billion which is expected to grow to $31.5 billion this financial year. assertive

2026-10-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Voters call for local AI safeguards as data centre concern rises

🔮 Voters want Australian-specific laws to regulate AI rather than reliance on an international agreement, exclusive polling shows while also showing rising concern that a multibillion-dollar data centre building boom will hurt local communities and the environment. assertive

2026-10-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

What would you cut? Chalmers challenges critics of government spending

🔮 The budget recorded a deficit of $22.2 billion which is expected to grow to $31.5 billion this financial year. assertive

2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Forget the mortgage belt: Gamers are getting smashed and Chalmers should worry

🔮 The latest monthly inflation figures from the bureau of statistics all-but guaranteed that the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee will inflict another rate rise on the economy on Melbourne Cup Day. assertive

2026-10-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald

There’s something odd about the way Anthropic is wooing investors

🔮 The firm behind Claude warns potential investors they may never see their money again – because the world will have come to an end. assertive

2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The surge in WFH was expected to trigger a baby boom. New data says otherwise

🔮 Ahead of new figures that are expected to confirm the nation’s fertility rate at a record low, the analysis by independent think-tank e61 suggests factors outside the greater flexibility offered by working from home is not enough for couples to take the parenthood plunge. mixed

2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Homes losing $9000 a month as RBA mulls another rate hike

🔮 The nationwide slump in house values has spread to Brisbane and Perth with no signs the property downturn is close to ending, amid fears it could get worse if the Reserve Bank pushes ahead with another interest rate hike this week. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The rate rise that stops the economy? Fears of an RBA-induced recession

🔮 The Reserve Bank is being warned it could drive Australia into a recession and leave tens of thousands of people out of work with a Melbourne Cup Day interest rate rise that will lift pressure on Treasurer Jim Chalmers to cut deeper into government spending. assertive

2026-11-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald

RBA board split but majority backed raising interest rates to 18-year high

🔮 The last time the RBA board split was in May when 8 voted in favour of a rate hike with one holding out. assertive

2026-11-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The Reserve Bank has played its part. Now it’s Jim Chalmers’ turn

🔮 It may not be an official recession, but the Reserve Bank knows it may feel like one for plenty of Australians after it delivered another dose of monetary policy punishment to the country. assertive

2026-11-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

What is a recession and are we in one? A bluffer’s guide

🔮 But it wasn’t accompanied by a surge in unemployment which would peak at 7.4 per cent. assertive

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