The UK Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, has played a central role in spreading false intelligence and engaging in provocative actions aimed at escalating global conflicts, British whistleblower and investigative journalist for The Grayzone, Kit Klarenberg, has told RT.
Stock markets were doing well in Asia until it seemed like a leak of tonight’s US unemployment print by Trump spitting his dummy calling for Fed Chair Powell’s resignation. This saw most equities pull back alongside S&P futures while the USD firmed against the undollars, with Yen easing off as speculation the BOJ may raise
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The St Louis Fed recently did an interesting AI survey that suggested the benefits of AI are large in certain areas but far from uniform. For each generative AI user, we computed the percentage of working hours saved as the ratio of time saved in the previous week to hours worked in that same week.
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Wokey has been trying to turn Australia into a Chinese satrap for a few years now. It is little more than jingoistic and self-serving ignorance as it bristles about losing Big Tech revenues, but it’s currently in tune with local Trump Derangement Syndrome, so it is more dangerous than usual. Wokey can barely contain itself
Wokey has been trying to turn Australia into a Chinese satrap for a few years now. It is little more than jingoistic and self-serving ignorance as it bristles about losing Big Tech revenues, but it’s currently in tune with local Trump Derangement Syndrome, so it is more dangerous than usual. Wokey can barely contain itself
The trend of a falling major party vote isn’t quite the same in Tasmania as it is on the mainland.
While the major parties maintained their dominance for longer in federal politics, and in most states, as far back as 1989 we saw the Greens poll 17% of the primary vote.
From 1989 until 2021, the total size of the major party vote didn’t shift by that much. While the Greens have occasionally polled higher than their 1989 result, it remains one of their higher results. And the votes for the two major parties have usually stayed within the same range.
Gone through 2026. The ABS. The seasonally adjusted balance on goods decreased $2,621m in May. Goods credits (exports) decreased $1,168m (2.7%) driven by Non-rural goods. Goods debits (imports) increased $1,453m (3.8%) driven by Capital goods. The year has been OK for exports because most of the bulk commodity falls have been in coal, which is largely
One of the narratives put forward for high levels of immigration into Australia is that migrants are required to build sorely needed homes. At face value it seems to make sense. After all, we have a housing deficit that AMP’s Shane Oliver puts at up to 300,000 homes (once household demographic factors are added in)