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theBoy and I share a word—furtle, or furtling—which means to swivel your eyeballs in a suspicious manner. It now has a larger meaning of tucking your head down to just eyeballs above the rim level and sneakily zooming along. I am officially in a new position and oldwork has forever lost their hold. My newwork is awesome and I get to do fun things as I furtle along, tweaking things here, suggesting things there. An insidious influence by sheer dint of competence. Yes, my self-esteem is still that high. As I scored in black pen on the bookshelf hutch in the shed a year ago—I will never feel shit about myself again.I am still sore.

Australia is not the only country with a health system under pressure from rising health care costs and increasing demand from a growing and ageing population.  A spate of recent research and policy papers from Europe shows that this part of the...

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Took a hit from a migraine this morning, so all progress on the books came to a halt. Dropped a couple pain killers and retired to my office recliner to let it pass. Strong pain killers, fell asleep. Woke up two hours later with head ache gone. Replaced by terrible back pain.

This is a disaster.

I've spent so much time at my standing desk that I can no longer skive off and sleep in my office chair.

Man, I loved that chair. We had some good times together.

Chris Weston, Chief Market Strategist at IG Markets Asia has been fairly subdued today, although price action on an index level still points to holding a favourable bias towards China, Hong Kong and Japan. In Australia, the ASX 200 saw good buying off the early morning low (5565), although defensive names have outperformed. The talk […]

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Australia Post installs rooftop solar at NSW HQ to cut electricity costs by $65,000-plus a year; as does one of Australia's bigggest bird seed makers.

Network operators still want to address the "death spiral" by penalising solar and battery storage with higher fees and tariffs. But they are doing nothing about the legacy costs of a super-sized and over-capitalised grid.

By Leith van Onselen The AFR is reporting today that Queensland Treasury Corp has called for expressions of interest to sell $33.6 billion of ports, power generators, electricity distribution networks and water pipelines (see below graphic). Studying the for sale list makes me nervous, as most of the assets appear to be essential infrastructure, whose sale could potentially lead […]

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It’s all green again for iron ore miners today as Dalian iron ore futures are up almost 1% and rebar futures are following, up 0.6%. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit + -

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Last night Sydney enjoyed an amazing winter sunset that slowly faded between endless colours. While beautiful sunsets are common, this one was particularly long lasting and photogenic. Not surprisingly, Facebook and the internet was soon awash with pictures. But what made the Sydney sunset so spectacular?

There’s some evidence that microbes living inside a rock could be blasted from their home planet, travel through space, and then crash-land on a new planet relatively unscathed. Throughout the ALH84001 debate, scientists assumed fossils could also withstand the grueling journey, but it looks like nobody actually set out to test it—until now. 

By Leith van Onselen Standard & Poors (S&P) has released a new report warning of increasing risks for the Australian housing market due to rising investor participation, slowing income growth and softening employment prospects, which could create mortgage repayment pressures for recent, highly leveraged, purchasers: All else being equal, falling interest rates have brought improvements […]

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