February 2024

When politicians create an inquiry or a royal commission to examine an important issue, you can be certain that nothing much is going to change. An inquiry is a device used by politicians to give the appearance of doing something meaningful, while changing nothing. So the Prime Minister’s plan to have an inquiry into supermarket

Residential real estate abounds with myths and misconceptions, most of them perpetrated by politicians and others with a vested interest in having people believe something that’s not true. The greatest fallacy of all is that property investors are a privileged class with massive tax and other advantages that distort the market and cause problems like

Australian consumers can be forgiven for thinking that property price data published by research firms like PropTrack and CoreLogic is a matter of fact. The median house price for a city, you might think, is a matter of fact and how much it has risen or fallen is a matter of fact. Right? Well, actually,