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Renew Economy Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 13:56 Source
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Bernard Keane at Crikey has a good wrap. It’s hard to overstate how much the Liberals had going for them in Dunkley. Historically a Liberal seat, in a cost of living crisis, a candidate with name recognition as a local mayor, the absence of right-wing parties like One Nation and Clive Palmer’s United Australia, top

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 13:00 Source

Sharri Markson interviewed me on Tuesday night for Sky News, during which I spoke about the escalating rental crisis affecting Australia as a result of the federal government’s record-breaking immigration. Below are key highlights from the interview. Edited Transcript: Sharri Markson: We’ve spoken about the impact of immigration on housing at the start of the

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Your Democracy Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:39 Source

It doesn’t take much to encourage Penny Wong, sporting her ‘deeply concerned’ frown, to rattle the China can – a can she gave a good shake to yesterday.

 

Penny Wong rattles the China can    By Paul Keating

 

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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:32 Source

The history of such experiments is not promising. Why would those in the US like the game of rugby league, when an established code of superficial similarity already exists? Fundamental differences, for one thing, abound. The US NFL Superbowl tries to keep blood and violence off the pitch. Force, when exercised, is chivalric, the moves…

The post A Wishful Gamble: Rugby League in Las Vegas appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:30 Source

The Greens will release their housing policy on Wednesday. The Greens will propose establishing a new government agency that would build 360,000 affordable homes over five years at a net cost of $12.5 billion. Some 70% of the dwellings would be rental properties, with rents to be capped at 25% of average household income; one-fifth

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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:30 Source

Solutions for Climate Australia Media Release Climate advocacy organisation Solutions for Climate Australia today called on the Federal Liberal and National Parties to release policies that would reduce climate pollution this decade, not talk up unproven nuclear reactors.   ‘We are deeply concerned that the Federal Coalition parties are promoting nuclear reactors and other dangerous distractions…

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:57 Source

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the national accounts for the December quarter, which recorded aggregate GDP growth of only 0.2%, below economists’ and RBA expectations of 0.3% growth. Over the year, the nation’s GDP grew by only 1.5%. Government spending continued to drive growth: Domestic final demand contributed just 0.1 percentage points to

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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:45 Source

Oxfam warns that over six million people from farming families in Zambia are facing acute food shortages and malnutrition until next growing season, which is twelve months away, due to a severe drought, exacerbated by climate change and El Nino, which has caused massive crop failures for half of the nation’s “planted area.” The drought…

The post Over six million people face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity in Zambia, Oxfam warns appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:30 Source

Here is Max Chandler-Hater: There’s a reason that every time we’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis where people are doing it tough that the rich and powerful bring up migrants because is an excellent way for people like Peter Dutton to distract from the real culprits of this cost of living

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:30 Source

The situation facing Australian renters continues to darken. Domain’s latest rental vacancy data shows that the national vacancy rate hit another record low of just 0.7% in February: Sydney’s and Melbourne’s rental vacancy rates fell to a record low of 0.8%, according to Domain. Brisbane’s rental vacancy rate fell for the second straight month to

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:00 Source

Former Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) chair Allan Fels has called for the ACCC to investigate the insurance sector over its recent hike in insurance premiums. Speaking after three insurers reported a combined $1.3 billion in profits from Australian consumers in the February results season, Professor Fels expressed concern about competition in the insurance

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xkcd.com Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 11:00 Source

Actually, the fact that Mars is still orbiting safely over here means that it was technically an *Euler* apocalypse, not a Venn one.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 10:56 Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z0ekb_Cj5s

Angry Peter Doocy EXPLODES NONSTOP at John Kirby, makes his FACE MELTS in FEAR on stage

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIcHPtwG274

Watch Josh Hawley LAUGHS After Mayorkas' Aide FOOLISHLY CONFESSED To 'Disinfo Comittee'...

 

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The Tally Room Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 10:30 Source

In cases where members are elected to represent single-member wards, or divisions, Queensland councils use the optional preferential voting (OPV) electoral system to elect members. This covers all mayoral elections, as well as council seats in most urban south-east Queensland councils.

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Renew Economy Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 10:30 Source
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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 10:30 Source

Chairman Xeating is back and he’s mansplaining! Former prime minister Paul Keating has accused Australian Security Intelligence Organisation chief Mike Burgess of running a “goon show” and undermining efforts to stabilise ties with China, while also lashing Foreign Minister Penny Wong for being out of step with South-East Asia. Mr Keating issued a blistering statement

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Renew Economy Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 10:11 Source
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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 10:00 Source

Greg Jericho from The Guardian and The Australia Institute penned an article lamenting the collapse in Australia’s productivity performance this century. “Whenever discussing any policy, we always should step back and ask what we are trying to do, and whether what we have been doing has worked”. “Take, for example, industrial relations. Have IR policies

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 09:30 Source

We have warned for months that Australia’s wage growth would stall as historically high net overseas migration collides with the slowing economy. This imbalance between labour supply and demand is best illustrated by the below chart plotting the sharp increase in the number of applicants per job advertisement against Australia’s official unemployment rate: As shown

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Renew Economy Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 09:19 Source
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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 09:00 Source

Overnight saw the release of the latest US ISM services PMI, which came in much softer than expected and led to a drop in the USD and bond yields. Wall Street still lacks confidence to move higher amid some tech wobbles, combined with the softer print sending it down more than 1% across the board,

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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 08:40 Source

Peter Dutton has a vision for our energy future. Personally, I think that’s great. One should have a vision particularly if one is a political leader… Like Jeff Kennett. Being a Victorian, I clearly remember how Jeff shared his vision of a privatised energy market where choice and the market would bring down prices and…

The post Peter Dutton’s New Clear Vision…Oh, Sorry Nuclear Fission! appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 08:30 Source

The Market Ear with bearish musings. How bullish is tech? NASDAQ is slightly lower than where we traded on February 9… Refinitiv Is this losing steam? NASDAQ remains trading inside the trend channel, but note the last break up has already been reversed, and the high never reached the upper part of the channel. This

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Your Democracy Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 08:17 Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfSS-dzucsU

How to Stop WORLD WAR III...

[GUS SAYS: DISMANTLE NATO AND KISS]....

 

The original goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), according to its first Secretary General, was "to keep the Soviets out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.

 

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 07:30 Source

DXY was flat last night: AUD fell: North Asia offered little: Oil waltzed lower through OPEC: Dirt meh: Big miners are headed for big retest: EM meh: Junk still OK: US yields were thumped: Stocks got whacked: I do wonder if the following chart is not about to revert to mean: Sometime early this century,

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 07:00 Source

Yesterday’s NPC did little for iron ore or steel. Futures for both kept falling (SGX is a day behind): It sure looks like a ‘sell the rallies’ market now. In Dalian, the chart looks positively sick as a perfect descending triangle pattern forms at the lows: Coking coal is joining in: The NPC was a

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Cheeseburger Gothic Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 06:51 Source

With Jane away for the first half of the week, I found myself with a couple of hours free and Napoleon freshly set free on Apple TV. I was a bit worried that the period costume drama stuff would fry my brain, but I had read that the battle scenes were all marvellously done. So I gave it a spin.

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Renew Economy Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 06:22 Source

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 00:05 Source

Late last year, BetaShares chief economist, David Bassanese, asked why Australia doesn’t have tighter restrictions on foreigners buying local homes: The article that Bassanese referred to stated: “Wealthy Chinese buyers are taking private jets to Melbourne to purchase mansions in Toorak – the city’s most expensive suburb – on the spot, says Toorak buyer’s agent

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