Immigration Minister Tony Burke has said budget papers show migration is “continuing to get lower”, despite the official figures showing Labor has failed to meet its migration targets in any year since 2022. skynews.com.au/australia-new…

$REA.AX REA Group - find me a more loved Aussie stock Two of Australia's favourite things - 1) tech on a nosebleed multiple and 2) propadee If it can just keep growing earnings at 15% p.a. for the next decade, the current share price may turn out to be justified !

... make that 7 days Token price index slide back to mid-January levels, fading much of the agentic frenzy of the past 3 months.

BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country. Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison. The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption. That means: • Every image scanned • Every message inspected • Every video analyzed All directly on your phone. Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data. Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes. In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach. Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device. Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.

Newspapers are reporting my first submission to the Senate that the new proposed capital gains tax at a rate of 50% is the highest CGT rate in the world, 147% above the world average at 20%. Please circulate widely: news.com.au/finance/economy/…

What exactly what would be point of sacking Clare O'Neil? It's not like it was ever in doubt the government would fail to meet its target by a country mile and there is broad based incompetence in terms of the public housing build.