PropTrack’s latest housing affordability report revealed that housing has never been more unaffordable in Australia, with median-income households earning just over $112,000 a year only able to afford 4% of homes sold across the nation over the past year: Australians now need to be high-income households earning $213,000 a year (i.e., in the top 20%
This week we get the monthly inflation print for August. Westpac sees 2.7% and Antipodean Macro 2.6%. Well within the RBA’s target band and a trigger for rate cuts: However, the result will be driven by energy rebates: The RBA does not include the rebates in quarterly trimmed mean inflation, which Westpac sees as a
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Large protests took place across France on Saturday over the appointment earlier in the day of a right-leaning government. Thousands marched in Paris, denouncing President Emmanuel Macron and his new conservative prime minister, Michel Barnier, claiming they had disregarded the results of the July parliamentary election.
Boris Johnson has argued that Russia must be forced to accept defeat, even if doing so costs a trillion dollars
kwame nkrumah— the first person to apply ‘neo-colonialism’ to Africa’s 20th century experience......
‘Africa must unite’: Why this man was feared by the US and BritainKwame Nkrumah’s insight into the true nature of neo-colonialism was ahead of his time and is still relevant today
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The EU is having a full-blown existential crisis. Someone has really screwed up its economy, and the culprit is conspicuously absent from a new report outlining the carnage. Are there no mirrors in Brussels?
By James Moore Little Johnny was off to school with his backpack and baseball glove. Teachers said classmates could play catch during recess. They noticed something about him, however, that he was not as aggressive as other boys and was overly thoughtful and concerned about his fellow students, and there was just something about the…
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The sticky slime streaming forth from the memory of the late Mohamed Al–Fayed, who died in August last year at the age of 94, has been unrelenting. That the billionaire was an ogre of some proportion and influence during his time as the owner of Harrods in London was no secret. His ego was so…
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In the Intellectual Self-Defense Manual (special edition of Le Monde Diplomatique), the media philosopher MICHEL ONFRAY gets his ears rubbed by Benoît Bréville, director of Le Diplo.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced Wednesday that it will not endorse any candidate for president, amid polling which shows that its membership favors former President Donald Trump.
The Biden White House and the Democratic Party machine trying to advance Kamala Harris from No. 2 in the regime to No. 1 gets more interesting by the week, I have to say.
By Denis Hay Transforming Australia’s Democracy: From Representation to True People’s Power. Description Discover how Australia’s democracy can evolve from representation to a true people-powered system, using its monetary sovereignty. Introduction Australia’s current political system is termed a “representative democracy,” where citizens elect members of parliament to make decisions on their behalf. While this structure…
Sergei Kirienko, a former prime minister of Russia and currently the Number-2 man in charge of President Vladimir Putin’s staff, believes Russia can win the information war against the US and its allies.