Opinion Articles
Australia and the Mother Country Race Each Other to the Bottom
After more than a century of Federation and countless social experiments, you’d think Australia would have learned from the mother country how not to wreck an economy or an immigration system. Yet here we are in 2025, shackled to laws and institutions that guarantee only one thing: the slow, grinding slide down the global economic ladder. Australia has slipped from 5th in the OECD for GDP per capita in the 1970s to around 16th today.
Trevor Whittington
September 11, 2025
