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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 09:30 Source

Good on David Pocok for taking it on, but he’s talking nonsense. Independent ACT senator David Pocock said on Monday the pressure on the environment and infrastructure motivated many marchers on the weekend, who felt there was “no plan” underpinning the migrant intake. Albo has a very clear plan. It’s just that it sucks for

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 09:00 Source

Overnight saw some calm return to risk markets as the new trading week got underway without US involvement as they had a long weekend, although we still got more bullying of the Federal Reserve by the Trump regime. The perceived loss of independence and the blowout in US fiscal budget continues to put pressure on

The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 08:00 Source

There are two primary reasons why the federal government loves ‘Big Australia’ immigration. First, immigration boosts the overall economy, as measured by headline GDP. Running a high immigration strategy enables the government to claim that it is an effective economic manager, even when per capita GDP growth is negative (as it currently is) and individual

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 07:56 Source

Cashiered former general Prabowo Subianto was elected president of Indonesia last year on a contradictory campaign image.

One side showed a soft, caring grandpa, friend of the wong kecil (wee folk). The flip side promoted an urbane statesman who’d lift his country’s international status as the world’s third-largest democracy.

 

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 07:34 Source

ASIO deserves a good deal of credit for the cool and professional way in which it gathered and collected information to demonstrate to ministers its belief that members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had been behind at least two terrorist incidents in Melbourne and Sydney this year. Diplomats not alleged to have known of this have been tossed out as a result.

 

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 00:05 Source

It is clear that Australia is on the verge of another house price boom. As illustrated below by Alex Joiner from IFM Investors, both Cotality’s and PropTrack’s dwelling value series lifted strongly in August, continuing the run of strong results. “If you’re struggling to afford a home, the only worse news than the Cotality dwelling

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George Monbiot Monday, September 1, 2025 - 20:41 Source

Marvellous giants are returning to our shores, which means only one thing: pathetic inadequates using them as a test of manhood.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 28th August 2025

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 1, 2025 - 16:30 Source

Asian share markets are starting the trading week in very mixed fashion with Chinese stocks leading the way while Australian shares have pulled back with the absence of a lead from the US as they have a long weekend. The fallout from the Friday night decision that the Trump regime’s tariffs are actually illegal (do

The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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THE BLOT REPORT Monday, September 1, 2025 - 14:08 Source

Again and again the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) refers to what is being perpetrated by Israel on the people of Gaza as a ‘war’1-3. Everybody who has any understanding of what is going on knows this is a genocide.

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