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Renew Economy Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 10:49 Source
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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: “His “train locals first” push comes a month after the Labor leader refused to back the government’s plan to bring permanent migration back to 160,000 a year”, The

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Your Democracy Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 10:03 Source

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MacroBusiness Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 10:00 Source

It just gets worse at Australia’s newspaper-turned-fantasy fruit cake recipe. Unsatisfied with the gaslighting of dying homeless people, The Guardian of Nothing’s intellectual frauds have scoured the earth to find a style of living that agrees with its perverse aesthetic: Meet Konstanze Winter in Delft, a canal-encircled city in the Netherlands best known for its

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Cheeseburger Gothic Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 09:43 Source

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MacroBusiness Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 09:30 Source

We have noted repeatedly how Australia’s unemployment rate will likely shoot up this year as employer demand for workers slows and labour supply grows briskly via strong net overseas migration. This puts MB at odds with the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) latest Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP), which forecast that Australia’s unemployment rate would

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Your Democracy Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 09:24 Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cyWBxCTqq0

 

The mother of all massacres

 

Water, water everywhere but not a clean drop to drink. Killing Gaza, bombing tents. And Britain’s acquiescent Labour Party, outsourced to Israel

 

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW................

 

 

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MacroBusiness Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 09:00 Source

Some very dovish Fedspeak and revisions to the latest US PPI print gave equity markets a small lift overnight, following a slump from the stronger than expected CPI print.  Wall Street rebounded and futures for Asian share markets look more optimistic as a result although the USD remains fairly strong against most of the majors

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Your Democracy Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 08:58 Source

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Wednesday that X host Tucker Carlson caught him by surprise during their interview last week.

The final interview was two hours long and has been seen by hundreds of millions of people. Before it, Carlson was criticized for speaking to Putin at all – and afterwards, for not asking the Russian president certain things.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 08:30 Source

Sometimes, being stupid can be an advantage, in the short term: Australia is lagging international peers on the adoption of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, according to the Productivity Commission. We are “pretty much toward the bottom of the pack of OECD nations,” Danielle Wood, chair of the commission, said at the AFR Workforce

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MacroBusiness Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 08:00 Source

A great note from TS Lombard that gets it. Time will tell if last week marked a local bottom in Chinese stocks, but the great unwind in China’s FDI and portfolio flows is just starting. The raft of measures put in place by Beijing to stem the market rout, including reports that Xi Jinping has

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MacroBusiness Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 07:30 Source

The Market Ear kicks us off. The Jaws Nothing new really, but the gap between equities and rates has grown very wide in 2024, especially over the past 2 weeks.These days the market is all about the Mag7, but what happens should the rates narrative revive as a driver of equities? Refinitiv Fed funds –

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Your Democracy Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 06:18 Source

Is it a typo? Australia’s monopoly of tollroad monopolies, Transurban, has broken hard with hallowed tradition and actually paid tax. A little bit, at least that’s what its interim profit release to the ASX shows.

Given payouts to shareholders were up 13%, free cash up almost 19%; and given the thwacking $2b in toll revenue just for the half year alone, the tax payable of $21m was a drop in the ocean. But what’s the scam here? Transurban usually pays nothing.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 00:10 Source

In the US, gas is now $2.50Gj. Asian net-back LNG shipped from Australia is $10.30Gj (and I’m only including the cost of shipping not freezing). European net-back shipped from Australia is $8.50Gj. (and I’m only including the cost of shipping not freezing). Yet, Australian gas prices are still $12Gj despite coming out of the ground

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MacroBusiness Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 00:05 Source

Australia has some of the world’s weakest anti-money laundering rules, making Australian homes a honeypot for laundering dirty money. In December, Treasurer Jim Chalmer announced that the federal government will triple the vacancy tax for properties held by overseas investors and triple the foreign investment fee for purchasing established residences. The changes are expected to

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Cheeseburger Gothic Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 19:02 Source

No idea if this will work, but here is the link for the Bookclub.

Doors open at 6.30 Brisbane Time. I will have a drink. If nobody turns up, I will drink alone.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87165401381?pwd=WXZpMzBLRm95WUxaRlVRclU3S2Yvdz09

The meeting ID is 871 6540 1381

The passcode is 180814

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 16:30 Source

Asian share markets are seeing awide slump in reaction to the overnight selloff on Wall Street in reaction to the surprise upside to US inflation. The vacuum of closed Chinese markets for the Chinese New Year break is not helping with the USD higher against everything while bond markets more importantly also continue their selloff.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 16:06 Source

The L/NP tree-house club, like many RWNJ organisations, is defined by what it’s against rather than what it’s for – where conservatism is a constant battle for preservation of the status quo; where anti is easy, and initiative is hard. It’s where bias beats brains. The only constant is change yet these trogs forever fight…

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Renew Economy Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 15:44 Source
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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 15:24 Source

By guest columnist and longtime Assange supporter, Tess Lawrence Interpol’s Red Notice warrant issued for Julian Assange was bloated with corruption. One of its presidents was the notorious Jackie Selebi, former Ambassador to the United Nations for South Africa. He reigned over Interpol for the usual four years, from 2004 to 2008. Three years later…

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Renew Economy Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 15:14 Source
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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 13:39 Source

National Tertiary Education Union Media Release The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has urged the Albanese Government to act on damning findings of a new study highlighting a workplace health crisis for university staff. A four-year survey involving more than 6200 responses from Australian university staff has found unacceptable levels of stress, burnout, pressure and…

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 13:30 Source

Late last month, the weaker-than-expected Q4 CPI inflation print flamed expectations that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand may soon cut the official cash rate (OCR). Headline CPI inflation fell quicker than the Reserve Bank’s projections in Q4:   Core Inflation also fell swiftly: . While the breadth of inflation plummeted: The New Zealand economy

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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 13:20 Source

The Paediatric Palliative Care National Action Plan Project has achieved another first in Australia’s care and support of children, young people, and their loved ones living with life-limiting illness. “For the first time we have data on the delivery of specialist paediatric palliative care in Australia,” say Professor Meera Agar, Chair, Palliative Care Australia (PCA).…

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 13:00 Source

Below is an extract of an interview with Sharri Markson (Sky News) and Warren Hogan (Judo Bank) discussing Victoria’s widespread power outage, which left some 500,000 homes without power on Tuesday evening after a fierce storm rolled through Victoria. I argue that East Coast Australia has shot itself in the foot by creating an artificial

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 12:30 Source

SQM Research has released rental vacancy rate data for January, which declined a sharp 0.2% over the month but was 0.1% higher than a year earlier: Meanwhile, capital city asking rents increased by 1.4% in the 30 days leading up to 14 February 14 2024, bringing the 12-month increase to 13.1%. National rents rose across

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The Australian Independent Media Network Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 12:21 Source

Legal challenges regarding the Israel-Gaza War are starting to bulk lawyers’ briefs and courtroom proceedings. South Africa got matters underway with its December application before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in its campaign against the Palestinians. While determining whether genocide has taken place, the ICJ issued an interim order warning Israel…

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 12:00 Source

The latest Seek jobs survey showed that the number of applicants per job ad surged in 2023, well beyond the pre-pandemic level: The latest Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) forecasts that Australia’s unemployment rate will rise to 4.3% by the end of 2024, which is just 0.4% above

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Renew Economy Wednesday, February 14, 2024 - 11:55 Source
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