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 With thanks to 'Allo 'Allo.My already incapable body is aging fast. I had to carry two boxes about two hundred metres. I had breaks every 50 metres or so, boxes balanced on something to hand while I recovered my breath. Shitted to the max by such chicanery I resolved to purchase a trolley for forthcoming missions. I found one I'd scouted earlier, paid for it then sat in complementary seating as I used a key to saw open the box tape. It was a fold-up model with no assembly required.

The protestor of school age sported a placard featuring a distorted caricature of Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison: “Scomo was liking it hot.” A glorious spring day, and a gathering was already fussing and buzzing outside the Victorian State Library and students were striking. The placard image was one that toasted both ways – looking…

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By Denis Bright   The latest August 2019 employment data shows the Australian labor market in a transitional stage. The federal treasury is awash with funds from the senate’s rejection of tax reductions for larger companies. Commodity export prices are largely buoyant. However, the federal LNP is firmly committed to delivery of a balanced budget for…

To finish a pants-shitting week, lets go to the weekend in crisply pressed strides, only with nasty skid marks: China has developed the world’s first portable sonic gun for riot control, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said. The rifle-shaped instrument, which was jointly developed with military and law enforcement, is designed to disperse crowds using

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The world is burning, and Australia is doing nothing but waving a big stick. No wonder the kids have gone on strike.

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Via strategic doyen Ross Babbage: What does China want? The Chinese Communist Party appears to have four primary goals in its conduct of political warfare operations. Xi Jinping’s first and most important goal is the maintenance of uncontested Communist Party rule. To this end the regime employs sophisticated political warfare operations to suppress domestic dissent

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Via Damien Boey at Credit Suisse: US existing home sales surprised to the upside, rising by 1.3% in August, taking year-ended growth higher to 2.6% from 0.6%. Housing demand was looking weak at the end of 2018, but now it seems to be turning around, largely in response to lower bond yields and mortgage rates.

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ACT has demonstrated how turning to renewables can slash emissions, and protect customers from soaring electricity prices.

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Via Warwick McKibbin today: In recent weeks, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has signalled his intent to endorse a new Statement on the Conduct of Monetary Policy. Typically, amendments to The Statement have occurred with a change in government or a change in Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). It is critically important that this

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The Productivity Commission’s landmark 500-plus page report on Australia’s $2.6 trillion superannuation industry explicitly recommended abolishing compulsory life insurance for people aged under-25: Current settings are more a function of history than considered policy design. …many entrenched problems remain (and insurance accounts for over a third of member complaints against their fund)… Particularly for young

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Brickworks MD, Lindsay Partridge, says he is “horrified” by poor-quality building products and sub-standard construction practices, and has called for greater regulation and tighter controls. From The AFR: Mr Partridge said he had personally seen situations of poor building work and materials. “There was a couple of ones that have horrified me”… [and] has put

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Balding men do not sweat pretty. Also there's nowhere for the sweat to be absorbed so it stays slicked to scalp skin.Until that is you put on a hat. I did that with a max sweaty head and the hat scraping the scalp caused a cascade of salty discharge to roll down my forehead and into my eyes. I had to find paper towels to daub up all that head sweat. Some people find balding sexy; I don't.

Volkswagen finally confirms the all-electric ID.4 SUV (nee ID Crozz) will precede the ID.3 electric hatchback in Australia.