On the face of it, Hanson is right that the 2021 census reported 872,000 people spoke English either “not well” or “not at all”. But that number hides details that make Hanson’s claim highly misleading. For example, of those who reported speaking English “not at all”, most are Australian citizens. And about half of those have a pretty good reason for not speaking English – they’re babies.
You have probably read that Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire. This makes him the richest person in the world. But, does it also make him richer than most nations? Some parts of the Australian media seem to think it does.
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With One Nation recording a higher first-preference vote than Labor or Liberal in the latest RedBridge polling, Pauline Hanson has again been asked about her prime ministerial ambitions. She told 3AW that she is considering running for a seat in the lower house, but even if she doesn’t: “You can be prime minister from the Senate.” That is true.
Private schools are literally sending parents broke, with Financial Counselling Australia (FCA) labelling them as “emerging users of bankruptcy”. Astonishingly, private schools and training colleges file more bankruptcy cases than banks, insurers, and local governments…combined, according to FCA’s data.
Another day, day 15 after the budget, and the press is still full of stories trying to evoke sympathy for the downtrodden rich in Australia.
The best available evidence supports President Ramos-Horta’s claim that Australia nets the lion’s share of the benefits of the PALM scheme
Can you be as bad as Joe Hockey, who said poor people don’t drive, and suggested that the solution to the housing crisis was for young people to get a good job that pays money? Well, alas, the NSW Premier Chris Minns has now reached the Joe Hockey level of economic ignorance.
The Australian Services Union (ASU) is right, a 25% gas tax would raise far more than the PRRT does, and enough to pay for vital community services that Australians rely on.
Rebekha Sharkie is right: Australia Institute research has found that Medicare is failing regional and remote Australians, with rural people getting sicker and dying younger than their city counterparts.
In an op-ed published in the Sydney Morning Herald, chair of Independent Schools NSW Margery Evans argues that Jane Caro’s Rich Kid Poor Kid Vantage Point essay generalises and misinterprets the state of Australian education. But in doing so, Evans does exactly what she accuses Caro of, misleading the reader about the actual state of private school education.
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