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One of the signs of the increasing intellectual conformity of the academy, particularly the social science and (even more) the humanities, is the rise of scholarship that treats voting the “wrong” way as a pathology, to be explained pathologically.

In the US, analysis of voting Republican is increasingly treated in this way. Even more since Donald Trump won the Republican nomination and then the Electoral College and so the US Presidency. Brexit has received similar treatment.

It would be an understatement to claim that Bougainville, that blighted piece of autonomous territory in Papua New Guinea, had been through a lot. Companies have preyed upon its environment with extractive hunger. Wars and civil strife have beset its infrastructure and economy. Some 900 kilometres from the PNG mainland, it has been what might…

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Nicola Sturgeon maintained throughout the election campaign that she did not want to see Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street as prime minister. 

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Don’t despair: we will fight back, and, eventually, return stronger than before.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th
December 2019

Yes, it’s dark. Darker, arguably, than at any point since
the Second World War. We have a government not of conservatives, but of the
radical right, who will now seek to smash the remaining restraints on capital
and those who accumulate it. They will take their sledgehammers to our public
services and our public protections. They cheated and lied to assist their
victory; they will cheat and lie even more to implement their programme.

Everything is awesome as the Tories look set to wipe out any chance of the UK remaining both in the EU and in, well union as risk takers take the cue that the US/China trade deal is done as well, sending the USD down against almost everything but gold. Stock markets have responded to the

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The UK has embraced Brexit in its national election. It’s time Australia followed suit. We need it a lot more than the UK does. Why we need our own Brexit is as obvious as falling wages growth, skyrocketing house prices, smoke choked cities, the staggering water crisis engulfing the east coast, the disappearence of city

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Angus Taylor bids Madrid farewell, leaving diplomats to fight for Australia's Kyoto accounting dodge, and as PM Morrison tells more untruths.

Nuclear inquiry report calls on Australians to say "definite yes" to nuclear energy for Australia, despite the new technology's enormous expense and as-yet unproven status.

The purpose of this Infographic is to debunk the common misconception that a switch to Electric Vehicles will hugely increase demand for electricity. This Infographic breaks down and depicts the data that it won’t, and in turn, Electric Vehicles will not save Coal as many suggest is might. The resulting effect is that Oil has

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Has the RBA been hacked or what? More sense from The Bulletin from Kellie Bellrose and David Norman: Abstract Australian banks access large and deep foreign funding markets to supplement their domestic funding. Looking at the major banks’ worldwide operations, such offshore funding accounts for about one-third of their assets. This funding is raised in

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AEMC seems to view distributed energy as a problem rather than an opportunity when it comes to maintaining system resilience in the face of weather events or cyberattacks.

The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia (REIWA) has released its rental data for the September quarter, which reveals that Perth’s rental market has tightened, with the vacancy rate falling to 2.5%: This is yet to translate meaningfully into rents, however, which remained flat over the past three quarters; although they have risen $10 for

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More details of the trade deal now at the WSJ: Michael Pillsbury, an adviser to the president, said he spoke with Mr. Trump, who said the deal calls for China to buy $50 billion worth of agricultural goods in 2020, along with energy and other goods. In exchange the U.S. would reduce the tariff rate

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