Luke Kinsella
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 18
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Australian Financial Review
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
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Nine charts on private credit and whether it will cause the next GFC (opens the original)
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It was March 12, 2008, when Bear Stearns chief executive Alan Schwartz appeared on CNBC to address mounting speculation that his investment bank would be swept up in the crisis developing in the subprime mortgage market. Speaking to host David Faber, Schwartz offered firm reassurances. “None of those speculations are true … our liquidity position has not changed at all. Our balance sheet has not weakened at all.”
UK backpacker surge turns holiday visas into de facto work permits (opens the original)
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If you’ve noticed more British accents in your local cafe, pub or restaurant, you’re not imagining it. The number of visas granted to UK backpackers in Australia has surged 110 per cent to 74,222 in the past three years thanks to a free trade agreement that relaxed the rules, effectively turning holiday visas into de facto work visas for young Brits eager to make hay while the sun shines. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
The new megatrend that’s created the $200,000 junior sparkie (opens the original)
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Data centres in Sydney and Melbourne are offering overtime-pay-fuelled $200,000 incomes for electricians with just two years’ experience, eclipsing the average $80,000 salary for early-career accountants, lawyers or teachers. The artificial intelligence boom, the largest capital investment shift in generations, is driving an unprecedented demand for skilled trades. Like the energy transition and mining boom before it, the AI gold rush is hoovering up talent across the spectrum, from investment b
Labor’s $2500 foreign student fee has become a budget ‘cash cow’ (opens the original)
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The Albanese government’s more than tripling of visa application fees for foreign students has helped push visa costs to become the budget’s fastest-growing source of tax revenue, with more than $6 billion to be raised this year. Treasury documents obtained by The Australian Financial Review under freedom of information laws reveal that department officials believe the student visa fee increases – three rises in as many years to $2500 per application – have a minuscule impact on the number of st
Labor’s budget hides a $34b bill for rapidly expanding bureaucracy (opens the original)
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Labor has driven the largest expansion of the federal government bureaucracy this century, adding an average of 28 public servants every day in a hiring boom that comes with a hidden $34 billion price tag. Federal headcount is now rapidly closing in on a record 200,000, a 23 per cent surge in just 3½ years, propelled by a 6000-strong recruitment drive in defence-related departments and a near doubling in the size of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose e
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