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From Westpac’s Bill Evans: Markets have moved to price in three hikes for the RBA’s cash rate by end 2019. Other major banks concur broadly with that view. Recall that in mid-August last year, these same players (markets and most other banks) were forecasting rate cuts over the course of the remainder of 2016 and

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To be a right winger these days, you have to be good at playing the victim. Victim-playing defines the behaviour of right wingers from the Prime Minister and his in-fighting colleagues, throughout the right-wing business world, all the way down to the rank and file right-wing-trolls on social media. This is not just an Australian…

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Being parents in the industrialised West we imbibe McDonald's—typically it's received via drive-thru after a late-afternoon event. theboy gets the happy meal and in one of those meals they were handing out Mr. Men books (which do include women; but it's like a Smurfette situation in that character universe).We got double copies of Mr. Happy and I got one for the shed for display to make me happy—since he's literally called Mr.

Cross-posted from The Conversation: Australia’s health system is unique – much like its fauna. It has been shaped by the nation’s colonial history – the first hospitals were provided by the colonial administrations – and, of course, politics. It’s a curious blend of public and private funding and delivery of health care, with the Commonwealth

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Fears of the unstoppable energy transition are reinforced and amplified by vested interests and selfish, small minded losers who try and slow it down. Look at how energy prices jumped since Coalition's intervention on Liddell.

No, says ANZ boldly via BS: ANZ analysts Daniel Been and Giulia Lavinia Specchia said that the falls only present limited downside risk for the Aussie. For starters, they noted that the recent correlation between iron ore prices and the AUD/USD exchange rate is below it’s long-term average. In addition, “the low correlation between the

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It seems there is no climate and clean energy myth conservatives and the Murdoch media won't repeat. Just as well we have renewable energy and smart businesses.

Victoria's renewable energy target of 40% by 2025 has passed the lower house – but the state opposition has vowed to kill it if they get into power.

Tesla prepares to announce "big battery" milestone, as Musk drops in for a space conference and storage industry awaits results of Victoria tender.

Weekly column for The New Daily.  Filed under: Politicians, Politics Tagged: aggression, Alan Jones, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott

Yawn, from Nine: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un says the North will consider the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history” against the US in response to President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy the North. Calling Trump “mentally deranged” and his comments “the most ferocious declaration of a war in history,” Kim said his

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Via Domainfax: Attorney General George Brandis is planning a once-in-a-generation shake-up of the legal framework governing who can lawfully influence Australian politicians, amid fears of clandestine Chinese Communist Party influence over politics in this country. Mr Brandis flew to Washington in July, shortly after a series of Fairfax Media reports on the issue of foreign

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Morgan Stanley thinks so: Product markets are showing signs of outright tightness, particularly middle distillates. This is feeding into crude markets which are looking more balanced in 2018. We are raising oil price forecasts modestly. The real winners though are refiners, and we see value in margins and crack spreads. Strong demand is driving product

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