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Over the last few days, there has been a full court press by senior Liberals to get Gladys Berejiklian to run against Zali Stegall for the Federal seat of Warringah. This necessarily involves attacking the NSW ICAC for what Scott Morrison described as their “shameful pile-on”. “We have seen plenty of these things and recordings…

BofA via ZH with the note: Now that inflation is up from 1.4% to 6.2%, and even Powell admits it is no longer “transitory”, BofA’s CIO Michael Hartnett writes in his latest Flow Show note that inflation is rapidly emerging as an economic and political problem, as he points to a chart showing Biden’s approval rating

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French far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has launched his presidential campaign in front of thousands of cheering supporters at a Paris event marred by fighting during his speech.

Zemmour, a 63-year-old author and veteran television commentator, announced on Tuesday that he would run in next April’s election, joining the field of challengers seeking to unseat centrist President Emmanuel Macron.

Up until this point, most of my analysis of the NSW council elections has been contained to one council.

In one sense this makes sense – each local council is its own little polity and has its own stories. Part of what I find fascinating is the details of the stories, and you lose that detail when you try and detect broader trends that go beyond council borders. But it’s still worth looking at what stories tend to pop up again and again.

So here I’m going to look at some common trends that repeat across the 24 big councils.

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Victoria has reported over 1500 new cases yesterday, with six new deaths: Vaccination rates continue to climb, although still a bit short of NSW’s fully vaccinated percentage. New cases in NSW pipped just above 200, with vaccination rate almost past the 93% level: Queensland had six new cases yesterday, with vaccination rates lagging, still only

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The Liar has repeatedly underlined his own problem in public. Because his personality is a lie, he only knows how to lie, and the truth strikes him as falsehood. Hence, rather than pursue the bedrock of the national interest, sound policy process and governing, the Liar expends his energy on forcing more lies onto a

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This weekend marked the second biggest weekend of auctions since CoreLogic began tracking the market in 2008, with a whopping 4136 homes going under the hammer. Australia’s preliminary auction clearance rate fell further to 69.9% from 71.4% last weekend – a figure that will likely fall into the mid 60s once all results are counted:

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Well…that escalated quickly. DXY was firm Friday night and EUR soft: Despite muted major moves, the Australian dollar was slaughtered on the crosses, taking out key support levels for both a bearish descending triangle and head and shoulders top neckline: Oil and gold were volatile but fine: Base metals soft: Big miners were murdered: EM

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Before I zoom out, I thought I would also highlight some of the smaller councils that grabbed my interest. There are simply too many councils to cover them all, but these are a few that have been sent to me.

Byron

The Greens have held the directly elected mayoralty of Byron since 2004, and have usually held a healthy number of seats on the council. In 2016, Simon Richardson was re-elected as mayor with 49% of the primary vote, while the party won enough votes to elect four councillors, but only ran three other candidates, so missed out on winning a council majority.

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Go home, 46th Parliament. You're drunk.

Like the office bore at a Christmas party, the Australian Parliament spent its last fortnight bellowing on about itself, achieving nothing of note and generating eye-rolls from all and sundry.