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It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards we give out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule. As a reminder, the awards are worth nothing. The only value is fifteen seconds of fleeting fame on this blog post.

CoreLogic’s daily dwelling values index shows Sydney’s housing market is finishing 2024 in the red. Over the 28 days to Boxing Day 2024, Sydney dwelling values had fallen by 0.6%. As shown above, monthly dwelling values in Sydney began falling in early October, and the rate of decline has steepened ever since. The auction market

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Join us in this Special Christmas edition of the podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, is joined by Chief Strategist, David Llewellyn-Smith, to discuss his biggest concern for 2025 and the economic danger it presents. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is

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Immediately after the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime, on the night of Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 December, it was learned that the Israeli air force had bombed 310 targets in Syria.

These targets were airports, planes, helicopters, ammunition depots, chemical weapons stockpiles, anti-aircraft batteries, chemical weapons production plants, ports, ships, command centres, tanks, etc.

US president-elect Donald Trump plans to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the first day of his second term.

That follows Trump’s 2020 decision to leave over unproven claims of Chinese control and his blaming of China for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The team at MacroBusiness thanks you for your support in 2024 and wishes you a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year. We will be taking a brief hiatus over the Christmas and New Year period, with only sporadic posting, and will return on 2 January 2025. We look forward to keeping the

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Earlier this month, Tony Webber from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries warned of a clear consumer shift from battery electric vehicles (EVs) toward hybrids. “The Australian experience with EVs is similar to many major markets overseas such as Europe, New Zealand and the USA”. “Car makers are responding to regulatory settings that mandate an

Today isn’t the last working day of the year for me. I have a commission I want to wrap up before NYE and I’m this close to finishing it. But not close enough. So I’ll be chipping away at that after Boxing Day.

I hope everyone else is winding down for the year. It’s been, well… a year. Another one coming right at us. 2024 finished badly, with the news about Andrew Reilly. My heart breaks for his friends and family.

Best wishes to everyone. Look out for yourselves. I’ll see you on the other side.

By Stephen Saunders Last Friday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers quietly let slip Australia’s fifth Population statement, in which he and the Treasury constitute public enemy No. 1.  Treasury’s Intergenerational Report is Coalition chicanery, warmly embraced by Labor. As is Treasury’s Centre for Population and its Statement. This fifth edition offers nearly 100 pages of pseudo-science and

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese indicated in January 2022—four months before the federal election—that his government would run a lower immigration policy if elected: In The Australian, Albanese wrote that Australia had relied too long on temporary migrant workers rather than training locals, suggesting Labor would not follow the approach of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s

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I have frequently maintained that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported $48 billion in education exports are inflated and vastly overstates the benefits of international students to the Australian economy. The ABS obtains this impressive export figure using “an average spend estimate from Tourism Research Australia … supplemented by the addition of total expenditure

Why do American Christian evangelists support Israel’s genocide in Gaza?

At this time of year many Christians express ‘tidings of comfort and joy’ toward their friends, family and even complete strangers. Good for them. No doubt it’s just what we need in these increasingly troubled times.