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By Jane Salmon   Palm Sunday rallies bring together Jew and Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, many varieties of Christian, humanists and atheists to share a vision of ecumenical cooperation and tolerance. The rallies traditionally promote human rights and equity while also condemning war. Sydney’s rally today was no exception. Josephite Sister Susan Connelly had plenty to say…

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I turn, gulp, 60 this year, so this bit in The Times (UK, not US) really hit all my pain points when I was lying in bed, sipping my morning tea, reading it yesterday. It’s paywalled and impervious to assaults by the 12 Foot Ladder, but I can summarise it for you.

Friday night was a consolidation session for risk markets as they digested all the interest rate meetings of the week, with US bond yields falling slightly while the USD held sway over the currency majors. Wall Street stumbled a little bit but held on to their gains while European stocks were all over the place

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The Senate’s inquiry into the retirement system has been extended for 12 months and will now run until June 2025. The inquiry’s terms of reference have also been expanded, and it will consider how superannuation can be used to increase home ownership. The inquiry is chaired by Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg, who contends that Australians

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The vast majority of investors do not see nuclear power as a good investment, with less than one in 10 exploring this technology, new survey finds.

Labor is well on its way to becoming a minor party: But head-to-head it’s still OK: Everybody hates Albo and The Bollard: It’s worst versus worsterer.

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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

Domain claims that dramatically shrinking the lot sizes of Australian homes would improve affordability. “Housing will become more accessible to more people as they can buy a smaller block but for a lower overall price”, said Nicola Powell, Domain’s chief of research and economics. “The cost of land is the major component in a house

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In this post I’m going to run through each seat in depth, explaining who I think has won and which seats are in play.

To summarise, at the moment I have 15 Liberals, 10 Labor, 5 Greens, 3 JLN and two independents in the lead.

There’s still a bunch of votes to count, and preferences will need to be distributed before some seats are decided, but there’s still a lot to say.

There was a very clear shift away from Jeremy Rockliff’s Liberal Party, who have suffered a swing of 11.9%, but little of that went to Labor, who have only gained a swing of 1%.

The Greens also experienced a small gain, and this slightly increased vote combined with a lower quota puts the Greens in a position to win a bunch of extra seats. A majority of the swing went to the Jacqui Lambie Network, who look set to win a number of seats.

The truth about LNG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAUYI_eX24

More and more gigantic tankers carrying LNG, liquefied natural gas, are crisscrossing the oceans – and we're building infrastructure to trade ever larger amounts. But shouldn't we be moving AWAY from fossil fuels?

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