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Roy Morgan Business Confidence jumps 5.2pts to 81.7 – before RBA raises interest rates; highest since March

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 11-Nov-26

In October 2026 Roy Morgan Business Confidence rose 5.2 points to 81.7; it is the largest jump this year, and Business Confidence is now at its highest level since March. However, Business Confidence is 20 points lower than a year ago. Now 23% (down 3ppts) of respondents say their business is ‘better off’ financially than a year ago, while 44.3% (up 1.6ppts) say the business is ‘worse off’. Some 35% (up 4.7ppts) of respondents expect the business to be ‘better off’ financially this time next year, while 32.1% (down 4ppts) expect the business to be ‘worse off’. Meanwhile, 30% (up 3.1ppts) of respondents say the next 12 months will be a ‘good time to invest’ in growing the business, while 48.1% (down 0.9ppts) say the next 12 months will be a ‘bad time to invest’.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Inflation and input costs are the biggest challenge facing Australian farmers

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 11-Nov-26

Roy Morgan’s annual Agribusiness survey shows that (48%) of Australian farmers name inflation and input costs among their biggest farming challenges, up 18 percentage points from a year ago; this is the highest figure any farming challenge has recorded in the survey’s five-year history. The second biggest challenge for farmers is weather, mentioned by 24% of farmers (down 4% points). Economic uncertainty and government policy are in equal third place at 21% each. Government policy concerns in 2025 were dominated by the live sheep export ban, while it is less top of mind this year. Filling out the top seven challenges were fuel costs and supply (mentioned by 18% of farmers) and staffing issues (cited by 12% of farmers). The results in the Roy Morgan Agribusiness Brand Trust & Health Survey are based on interviews of 1,110 Australian farmers conducted online during July and August 2026.

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One Nation dumps candidate over Hitler herogram

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Original article by Lily McCaffrey, Anthony Galloway
The Australian – Page: 7 : 11-Nov-26

One Nation’s Victorian leader Warren Pickering has advised that the party has disendorsed Franco Guardiani as its candidate for the seat of Preston at the upcoming state election. Guardini was dumped just over two weeks from polling day following revelations that he had described German dicator Adolf Hitler as the GOAT – an acronym for ‘greatest of all time’ – on social media. Pickering said anyone who holds such views does not have a place in One Nation. Meanwhile, the Coalition has confirmed that the Liberals and Nationals will both preference One Nation over Labor on their how-to-vote cards. However, each One Nation candidate will be considered on a case-by-case basis, to screen out ones who hold offensive views.

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Influence of podcasts swaying more votes

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Original article by Elizabeth Pike
The Australian – Page: 5 : 11-Nov-26

The annual PodPoll survey undertaken by Deadset Studios and Insightfully shows that 50 per cent of Australians aged 15+ now regularly engage with podcasts. The survey also shows that ‘government and politics’ has been the fastest-growing podcast genre in 2026. Meanwhile, the survey has found that one-third of male respondents indicated that a podcast has made them reconsider who they will vote for at an election, while 42 per cent said their vote had been reinforced by a podcast. Overall, women were found to be less influenced by podcasts, although 31 per cent of females under the age of 29 have changed their voting intention due to a podcast.

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DEADSET STUDIOS, INSIGHTLY

Wholesale hell: power prices to double by 2029

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Original article by Perry Williams, Colin Packham, Jacquelin Magnay
The Australian – Page: 1 & 5 : 11-Nov-26

Modelling by Rystad Energy suggests that wholesale electricity prices will rise from 60 per megawatt hour at present to around $110MWh by 2029. Rystad has criticised the federal government’s Capacity Investment Scheme, noting that its ­financial closure success rate of just 18 per cent is the lowest of any major renewable under­writing mechanism in Australia. Rystad’s senior analyst David Dixon says the CIS was intended to have additional renewables capacity online by 2030; he adds that it is now too late, as construction work on these projects has yet to begin. Rystad says coal-fired power stations may need to stay open for longer, given that wind and solar plants can take 3-4 years to build.

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One Nation could surpass Greens in Senate

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Original article by Rosie Lewis
The Australian – Page: 5 : 11-Nov-26

One Nation has four senators in the current federal parliament, while there are 10 Greens in the upper house. However, the major political parties believe that One Nation could potentially win one or two Senate seats in every state at the 2028 federal election, resulting in between five and 11 extra seats for the populist party. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is its only senator who is facing re-election in 2028; assuming she retains her seat, One Nation could potentially have up to 15 Senate seats in the next parliament. In contrast, four Greens senators will recontest their seats at the next election, while the party is widely tipped to gain one Senate seat in each state; this would give it 12 seats in the upper house.

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ONE NATION PARTY, AUSTRALIAN GREENS

UN chief urges COP31 hosts Turkey and Australia to turn fossil fuel promises into action

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Original article by Graham Readfearn
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 11-Nov-26

The United Nations’ secretary-general Antonio Guterres used his speech on the second day of the COP31 climate summit to call for greater progress on transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy. He emphasised the need to move from merely discussing the transition to organising, financing and delivering it. COP31’s joint hosts Turkey and Australia have been urged to lead the transition, but Alden Meyer from climate think tank E3G notes that it took 28 years of annual COP negotiations for the first mention of a transition away from fossil fuels to be included in the annual summit’s final decision.

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ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence drops 3.1pts to 63.1 – lowest for seven months after RBA raises interest rates to 4.85%

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 11-Nov-26

ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence fell 3.1pts to 63.1 in the week to 8 November, to its lowest level since early April. Consumer Confidence is now 20.4pts lower than a year ago (84.5), and 8.5pts below the 2026 weekly average of 71.6. Analysis by State shows that Consumer Confidence has fallen in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, but increased slightly in New South Wales and South Australia. Now just 12% of Australians (down 2ppts) say their families are ‘better off’ financially than this time last year, while 61% (up 5ppts) say their families are ‘worse off’ (a record high figure for this indicator). Looking forward, 17% (down 2ppts) of respondents expect their family to be ‘better off’ financially this time next year (an equal record low figure for this indicator), while 49% (up 5ppts) expect to be ‘worse off’. Only 4% (down 1ppt) of respondents expect ‘good times’ for the Australian economy over the next year, while 49% (up 1ppt) expect ‘bad times’. Meanwhile, 14% (unchanged) of Australians say now is a ‘good time to buy’ major household items, while 48% (also unchanged) say now is a ‘bad time to buy’.

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Outsourcing to cost 850 Qantas jobs

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Original article by Ayesha de Kretser
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 12 : 11-Nov-26

Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson has advised the airline’s employees that it will outsource 850 head office jobs to consultancy firm Accenture via a seven-year agreement. Hudson said the outsourcing deal will modernise and streamline the airline’s IT infrastructure, which includes more than 1,000 legacy applications; she added that the agreement will accelerate the Qantas group’s use of AI. The Australian Services Union has criticised the latest job cuts at Qantas, describing AI as a "smokescreen" for offshoring local jobs. Hudson indicated that the first round of job cuts will occur around the middle of 2027

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Business to PM: Act now, act big

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Original article by Greg Brown, Matthew Cranston
The Australian – Page: 1 & 4 : 11-Nov-26

Sources have indicated that the federal government is unlikely to pursue a major change of strategy in next month’s mid-year budget update. However, the Business Council of Australia has called for a range of measures in the budget update, including an annual real spending growth cap of two per cent and a 25 per cent reduction in red tape. The Australian Institute of Company Directors’ CEO Mark Rigotti in turn has urged Labor to accelerate its deregulation agenda in order to boost productivity. The AICD’s latest Director Sentiment Index shows that 90 per cent of company directors expect cost pressures to worsen over the next year, while ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence has fallen to its third-lowest point since the survey began in 1973.

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BUSINESS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF COMPANY DIRECTORS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, ANZ GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX ANZ, ROY MORGAN LIMITED