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By Leith van Onselen One of the common arguments against ‘urban sprawl’ is that it endangers Australia’s food bowl – the food producing farms that sit beyond the urban fringe of our major cities. In recent times we have witnessed alarmist reports from various bodies, such as the University of Technology Sydney, warning that Sydney

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By Leith van Onselen CoreLogic has released its Quarterly Rental Report, which reveals a two-speed rental market, with rental growth also beginning to slow after recently climbing off the canvas: The quarterly report measures the percentage change in rental prices over the first quarter, which is typically the strongest for rental appreciation and growth, as

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Via Goittiboff: I have been in touch with two of the top five non-apartment builders in Australia and neither realised that the Royal Commission was threatening to go after the banks over unfair lending practices if they keep lending to homebuyers on the basis of false living expense estimates. …Both builders explained that the majority

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By Leith van Onselen Last week, I published an article on the diminishing value of having a university degree, whereby due to exploding student numbers on the back of the uncapping of Australian university places, the economy has become massively oversupplied with university graduates: Leading to poor employment outcomes, despite the massive cost to the Budget

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Yet again, the spectre of “bugs” in the system haunts us. 

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DXY was down last night: AUD was stablish: Gold firmed: Oil fell: And remains vulnerable with a huge speculative long: Base metals lifted: Big miners fell: EM stocks struggled: The EM junk tide is definitely going out. A slowing China signal? Short end Treasury yields marched higher, the curve flattened again: Not so bunds: Stocks

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Last month's Global Guerrillas report used a combination of:

• David Ronfeldt's TIMN (tribes, institutions, markets, and networks) framework 
• Complex systems theory, and 
• Boyd's OODA 

to figure out how we can adapt to the challenges we face without the radical simplification of societal collapse.  

Via Domainfax: The Turnbull government is set for showdown with states and territories over its signature energy policy after new details of the plan revealed any additional efforts by the states to curb carbon emissions would not count towards the national target. A key policy design paper circulated among the states at the weekend and

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On 17 August 1942 Ulrich Boschwitz, a twenty-seven-year-old German-Jewish writer, departed Australia for Europe aboard a British ship, the Abosso. Nearing the end of its journey, in the dangerous wartime waters of the north Atlantic, the vessel was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Boschwitz was among the 362 passengers and crew who perished. An unpublished manuscript of his was lost forever, and even his published work, now long out of print, seemed fated to leave scarcely a trace.

Here is just a little of what Liberal & National party members - and their governments - refuse to understand as they support a far-right economic platform which is built on a reduction in corporate tax rates, high business profits and large management salaries in conjunction with employee wage supression, erosion of workers' rights, an increase in employment insecurity based on casual, part-time and/or employees as sham contractors and, further restrictions on eligibility for a number of basic welfare payments.The Sydney Mo

Despite wage growth falling to record lows last year, the Australian Minister for Jobs and Innovation WA Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash continues to talk down any need for a substantial national minimum wage increase and praises the good will of employers big and small.It seems she just refuses to accpet the evidence of her own eyes.......The Guardian, 11 April 2018:On Wednesday the Fair Work Ombudsman announced an audit targeting the fast food, restaurant and cafe sector which will penalise bu

Some nice MSM panic today via Reuters: Whether China is reducing its vast holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds is a persistent question in global markets, and the recent escalation in trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies means the question is increasingly on investors’ minds. The U.S. Treasury’s latest report on international capital flows

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