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Freelance journo in France, ex ABC Radio, ex World Vision, ex Nation Review, ex Crosslight, has worked in Australia, Indonesia, China and now Europe.

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Newsrooms destroy life satisfaction while trying to report it

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By Alan Austin Verified
| Independent Australia Verified
Constant lies about Australia’s economy weaken consumer confidence and social cohesion, as Alan Austin reports. JUST ONE three-minute segment on ABC News last Tuesday (9 June) contained multiple blatantly false assertions seemingly intended to make its audience sad and miserable. Headlined ‘Money problems’, the item featured a spokesperson for lobbyists for rich corporations, KPMG, declaring: “Real wages are lower than they were in 2020.
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Flailing newsrooms flog fears of a fictional recession

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By Alan Austin Verified
| Independent Australia Verified
Anxiety over Australia’s economy fomented by craven anti-Labor ‘reporters’ is unfounded, as Alan Austin reveals. LAST WEDNESDAY’S national accounts showed Australia’s economy to be the strongest since the Coalition was vanquished in 2022. It is now the only advanced nation with economic growth above 2% of gross domestic product (GDP), the jobless and inflation both below 4.6%, and government debt below 20% of GDP.
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The glaring problems with Labor’s dreadful, appalling, terrible 2026 Budget

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By Alan Austin Verified, Adam Creighton Verified
| Independent Australia Verified
Few observers in Australia’s media have had a kind word for last month’s controversial Budget, as Alan Austin reports. CAREFUL DISTILLATION of the vociferous condemnations of Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ fifth Budget handed down three weeks ago reveals six fundamental criticisms. 1.
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