Boycott newsroom liars and restore Australia’s absent self-assurance

Alan Austin says experiences abroad show how Australia’s debilitating social malaise can be cured.

Albanians GOVERNMENT The newly repaired economy is not only the best-performing economy in modern history, but also arguably the best economy in the world right now. This is based on four key conclusions recently updated by the Reserve. Bank And Desk Statistics.

But just as these impressive figures were being announced, scientists at ANZ-Roy Morgan warned He said consumer confidence has reached an all-time low.

What’s going on?

Australia’s global supremacy

Here last week we saw that for the first time since records have been kept, Australia achieved these excellent results through 2025:

global data It confirms that no other developed Western country achieved these results last year. The only economies other than Australia to achieve this were: Saudi Arabia, Israel and United Arab Emirates in the Middle East and Vietnamese.

There were 16 countries that achieved three of these four results. These included giants such as Norway, Denmark, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. The rest of the world achieved two, one, or neither.

Disturbingly, five advanced OECD members failed to achieve any of the four desired outcomes: Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Slovakia and the United States.

Australia outperforms Saudi Arabia, while Israel, the UAE and Vietnam have higher GDP per capita, much more wealth per adult and triple A credit ratings for all institutions.

Australia is also the world leader in retirement savings, or very close to it. budget management and political stability. It is also, unsurprisingly, setting a huge pace for sustainability. tourism.

Of course, we can also take into account other variables such as debt to GDP ratio, national savings, business profitability and the Gini coefficient. So in the end, the best economy in the world is subjective. But by any criteria, Australia is at or near the top.

Media messages are important

Many observers, including this column, are appalled that Australians remain miserable and depressed despite having the highest standard of living ever. The latest world happiness rankings show Australians have fallen from tenth to 15th last year^This this year.
Interestingly, Iceland failed to achieve any of the four ideal outcomes. sorted We rank second in the world in terms of satisfaction.

Finland is the happiest country for the ninth year in a row ended in 2025 The unemployment rate is 9.8%, annual GDP growth is 0.1% and public debt has risen to 89% of GDP. Disaster!

Headlines in both countries support the earlier thesis: newsrooms in Australia instruct citizens to remain dour and pessimistic, but not elsewhere.

Despite Iceland’s economy struggling with a devastating recession, the media remained resolutely optimistic:

So it happened of finland. Closer to home, New Zealand achieved just one of the four optimum results last year. It managed to keep inflation below 4.0%, but the unemployment rate rose to 5.4% and it experienced weak GDP growth.

Like Iceland, Finland and much of the developed world, New Zealand media remained generally cheerful:

Constant lies lead to pessimism

The insidious influence of liars in Australia’s newsrooms is evident in end-of-year interviews about the New Zealand and Australian economies.

Tasman-wide annual growth for the December quarter was just 1.3%. This was historically weak and well below the OECD average of 1.76%.

But Kiwi newsrooms saw no cause for concern:

Australia’s annual growth of 2.65% to 2025 was much better than New Zealand’s and, in fact, stronger than almost anywhere else.

But according to newsrooms, we could all swallow a bottle of pills, jump from high windows, and slit our wrists on the way down:

Finding a way forward

The national broadcaster is another culprit with devastating distortions often published by “journalists” who should know better:

The Australian economy is not collapsing and is not close to recession. Good grief!

So for Australia to regain its former solid self-confidence, the liars in commercial newsrooms must be boycotted.

Could ABC News also be shut down and that money spent on…oh, I don’t know…sustainable tourism?

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