Glenn Connley

March 4, 2026

Are supermarkets setting themselves up to start “surge pricing” like Uber?

There’s a story today on the ABC how supermarkets and other retailers are moving away from the standard paper price tags on shelves to…

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Minister warns of trade impact

Minister for Trade Don Farrell has warned that war in the Middle East could impact billions of dollars worth of trade. It…

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Coalition seeks to cash in on travel crisis

Just as it did after the shootings at Bondi Beach in December, the coalition is using tragedy to score a few cheap…

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Big Tech invokes the US-Australia free trade agreement (the one Trump ignores) to resist regulation

The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), a US business lobby group that represents giant companies including Meta and Google, is arguing that the…

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Alarming Ombudsman’s report about state of public housing in the ACT

An ACT Ombudsman report has found that Housing ACT tenants have been left waiting in unsafe and hazardous housing conditions for extended…

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More electric trucks, motorbikes to deliver carbon cuts

Australians can expect more of their letters and parcels to be delivered quietly in the coming years as Australia Post expands its…

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RBA v IMF: Austerity versus a “fair go”

The Reserve Bank of Australia seems particularly prone towards seeing an overheated economy that needs cooling down. In her speech today the…

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Is the Australian dream to own your own home or someone else’s?

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor is opposing reform to negative gearing and capital gains tax. He says he wants to “re-establish home ownership…

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AUKUS alert in Trump’s Spain hissy fit

In an Oval Office presser this morning, President Donald Trump said of Spain: “Spain actually said that we can’t use their bases……

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Hit and run: Formula 1 Grand Prix costs Victorians. Again.

The Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne is on this weekend. We locals have already been kicked out of our own park,…

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