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Late Friday I reported on a possible victory for MB: The review recognises that price is an important indicator in establishing whether the domestic market is functioning effectively and considers that the ACCC’s forward LNG netback price series is the most applicable prices when estimating the likelihood and extent of a potential shortfall. As such,

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Global Macro / Markets / Investing: Guggenheim Says Market a ‘Ponzi Scheme’ That Must Collapse – Bloomberg Blackrock announces it’s going to divest half a billion dollars from coal mining companies, signaling coal is a dead industry – The Conversation Cryptocurrencies Remain Niche but Interest in Central Bank Digital Currencies is Soaring – Be In

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As promised, my article on climate change and the death of libertarianism/propertarianism, in Jacobin.

Conclusion

Global warming is the ultimate refutation of Lockean propertarianism. No one can pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere while leaving “enough and as good” for everyone else. It has taken thirty years, but this undeniable fact has finally killed the propertarian movement in the United States.

There have been Australia Days more loaded with fear and foreboding than yesterday’s (in 1942, for example), but not many. Richard Flanagan’s jeremiad in the New York Times might be overstated, but it’s a lot closer to the mark than our appalling Prime Minister’s suggestion that we should take the time to celebrate our greatness as a nation.

“The link between the fires, drought, and climate change is clear. For decades, climate models have predicted a hotter, drier Australia thanks to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Were greenhouse gases at pre-industrial levels, natural factors alone would produce a year as hot as 2019 just once every 360 years. But…

Miss Australia, 1975, Martin Sharp, Art Gallery of NSW   Macro & Markets Why the coronavirus outbreak could trigger a stock-market pullback – MarketWatch Scientist who simulated the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak says ‘the cat’s already out of the bag’ and calls China’s efforts to contain the disease ‘unlikely to be effective’ –

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Ok, I’m sure that there are always people who receive honours and you ask how on earth did they get the nod, whereas others you can look at say, “Even though I personally find them an odios reptile, I can see that they have done some things that a rather warped person would see as…

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Evidence a large majority opposes changing the date of Australia Day, even without the IPA's thumb on the scales.

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It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the year, dragged out, ironically enough, by the prosecution.  Curiously, this is a point that both the prosecutors, fronted by…

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Br Dr George Venturini   Can we do more than highlight, year after year, the lack of representation afforded to people of colour in parliament, in business, in the media? More than that recent spate of Aboriginal and Arab and South-Asian women who have somehow overcome unimaginable odds to get elected to parliament? Or more than…

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I had a short conversation
online a couple of days ago, where the others arguing against me were asserting
that it was more important to indulge in innovation than to have
sustainability. I tried to convince them that sustainability was all that
mattered and without it, any innovation or anything else would be pointless.
They could not be convinced. This got me thinking about the meaning of words
and how people’s understanding of words varies.

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With January almost done and dusted the Coalition’s form over the past six and a bit years has shown no signs of improvement. Sincerely, I would much rather be writing about the remarkable advancements the government has made since Scott Morrison came to power. I would gladly take it on the chin and congratulate his…

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