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I’ve been playing around with ideas for a Felafel TV series. Don’t get too excited because God knows I’m not. I’m just playing around with it in my downtime. There are many obstacles to adaptation, firstly finding somebody with a couple of million dollarydoos to pay for it.

Let’s assume somebody did drop a gigantanormous ward of the folding stuff on me, however. You still gotta get past the book having only two lines of dialogue and no characters who last for more than one or two pages. Most of them come and go within a paragraph.

Doesn’t make for much of a through-line.

The weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Index has fallen 1.2% and remains firmly at recessionary levels: According to ANZ Head of Australian Economics, David Plank: Consumer confidence decreased 1.2% last week, driven by a 4ppt increase in the number of respondents who think it is a ‘bad time to buy’ a major household item. A

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Roy Morgan has released its unemployment estimate for June, with the nation’s unemployment rate falling to an equal pandemic low of 7.8% and underemployment falling to 8.5%: Key changes are as follows: Unemployment in June fell 44,000 to 1.13 million Australians (7.8% of the workforce) while under-employment was down slightly by 13,000 to 1.23 million

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The Housing Industry Association (HIA) has hailed Friday’s release of 40,000 new places under the Federal Government’s Home Guarantee Scheme, describing it as “great news for all aspirational home buyers in Australia”: The Home Guarantee Scheme comprises the First Home Guarantee, previously known as the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme, and the Family Home Guarantee. The

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Liz Truss warns the world of evil women

The British foreign secretary disagreed with UK PM’s ‘if Putin were a woman’ claim, adding that such rhetoric is “unhelpful” for Kiev

CoreLogic reported that Australian rents grew by 9.5% in the year to June 2022 – the highest rate of growth since December 2007 when Australia was importing a record number of migrants. Moreover, with immigration returning, unit rents are now growing faster than houses in Sydney and Melbourne: “Such strong rental conditions through the current

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A government that cannot tolerate protest is a government that cannot tolerate democracy.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd July 2022

Governments tend to define democracy as narrowly as possible. The story they tell goes as follows. You vote. The majority party takes office. You leave it to govern on your behalf for the next four or five years. If you don’t like one of its policies, you can petition your representative, who will put their own ambitions, party loyalty and pressure from powerful interests aside to ensure that your voice is heard.

Macron says he doesn’t want to ‘annihilate’ Russia

While the French president has backed anti-Russia sanctions, he has refrained from the extreme rhetoric of his US and UK counterparts

MEANWHILE:

Ukraine angry at French state media

Asian share markets are doing well despite the lack of a lead from Wall Street as it has a long weekend and despite the big mixed messages from economic data on Friday night. The defensive USD is joining in with a stronger Yen to keep other undollars depressed as the Australian dollar remains poised here

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