Two charts wreck Grimm Jim's whole brochure: 3.2 runs the grid on weather, 13.6 runs the budget on wages — and everything else in the IGR is a footnote to those two decisions.
The Prime Minister is being honoured overseas while voters at home deliver a very different judgment.
Dozens of copy-and-paste accounts are telling motorists to stop complaining while expensive fuel drains the family budget.
Two charts wreck Grimm Jim's whole brochure: 3.2 runs the grid on weather, 13.6 runs the budget on wages — and everything else in the IGR is a footnote to those two decisions.
I read Jim Chalmers’ 352-page 2026 Intergenerational Report so you don’t have to.
Treasury’s 40-year brochure says AI will transform Australia because we have “abundant renewable energy.” Then you open Chart 3.2: coal falls off a cliff, nuclear isn’t invited, and the grid is rooftop solar, paddock solar and wind — weather for power. Data centres don’t run on a nice afternoon. Microsoft leased a reactor. Colossus burns gas. Jupiter sits on fuel cells. We offered a picnic menu taped to a steel mill.
Same book, Chart 13.6: GST frozen, company tax parked, personal income tax the only wedge allowed to get fatter. Wages for tax. They cap the total at 24.2% of GDP so it looks tidy, then let PAYG fill every hole they won’t touch. Generative AI writes the speech. Agentic AI files it. Physical AI looks at those two charts and builds the factory somewhere with firm power and a tax mix that isn’t a timesheet.
The Prime Minister is being honoured overseas while voters at home deliver a very different judgment.
Dozens of copy-and-paste accounts are telling motorists to stop complaining while expensive fuel drains the family budget.
I read 352 pages of the IGR so you don’t have to
A global fuel shortage could hand governments the keys to your daily life.
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