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By Andrew Klein   The challenges of the Global Refugee Crisis often appear unmet or lost in the narrative of political leaders attempting to use the ‘latest military’ problem to divert funding from genuine refugee problems. In other cases, such as Haiti, the UN response led to an increase of local problems such as disease spread…

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American exceptionalism can be a dreary thing, and no more so than each time a US president promotes the country’s imperial credentials and continued prowess. But in matters of literacy, shared wealth, and health care, the US has been outpaced by other states less inclined towards remorseless social Darwinism.  The overruling of Roe v Wade…

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Deloitte Access Economics has released an analysis of state budgets, which shows that Victoria is not forecast to return to Budget surplus until 2025-26: By which time, Victoria’s net debt is forecast to reach 27%, and has grown much faster than any other state over the past two years: Moody’s downgraded Victoria’s credit rating from

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Data from CoreLogic shows that a record 23.8% of dwellings across Australia fetched more than $1 million in the year to May 2022. The number of suburbs with a median price of more than one million dollars rose to 1,367 nationwide during the period: In the 12 months to May 2022, national dwelling values rose

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released retail sales data for May, with sales rising for their fifth consecutive month by 0.9% to be up 10.4% year-on-year: Retail sales were positive across all categories except clothing & footwear: Sales were also positive everywhere except QLD and ACT: According to Ben Dorber, Director of Quarterly

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More fuckedcrypto.com from FTAlphaville today. — Rapidly rising electricity prices should be bad news for cryptocurrency miners, right? Boutique investment house Kuros Associates believes so, having shorted US-listed Microstrategy and Riot Blockchain in spite of being a short term bitcoin bull. Miners “have a big problem [with] the rising cost of energy, and that’s not going

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Professor Ian Harper from the University of Melbourne has downplayed the prospect of across-the-board pay rises or a ‘wage-price spiral’ in the wake of the increase in the minimum wage. Harper, who was the inaugural chairman of the Australian Fair Pay Commission, says employers no longer face the 1970s-style indexing of pay to the consumer

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Olivia Smith from PositiveGood discusses where and how PR

There are always commies, kowtowers and useful idiots floating about the place. The latest fitting one or all of those descriptions is Colin Patrick Mackerras (Mackerras), an Australian sinologist and Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, who appeared in the Chinese propaganda organ, Global Times: GT: In the past decade, Australia’s relations with China have changed

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Papua New Guinea goes to the polls next month to elect the national parliament, and for the first time since 1977 there has been a redistribution of electoral boundaries. Seven existing electorates have been split in half to create seven new seats. Another six electorates will be split in half in 2027.