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The Tally Room Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 10:15 Source

This blog post will be used to track the close counts for the 26 big partisan councils. I’m going to be busy this week packing for a house move so won’t be doing big updates in one go, but I’ll update a council at a time when I get a chance.

If there is no time mentioned, assume the analysis is as of first thing Tuesday morning, September 17. There are 102 contests being tracked. 51 of those contests have an undecided seat, for a total of 62 undecided seats.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 10:00 Source

The Market Ear on the Fed and equities. Pre Fed pricing 25 or 50? Next 12 hours are crucial in terms of press watching and will probably cement final pricing, writes DB. Must read all you need to know note here. DB The big bid… …is taking a pause. Friday 9/13 marked the first day

The post Sell the first cut appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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xkcd.com Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 10:00 Source

Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 09:30 Source

China is closed but SGX open. Iron ore firmed yesterday: But, overnight, Goldman rained on the parade: Despite the iron ore price falling by ~20% since July, global supply has remained robust, with total daily iron shipments currently running 2% higher than this time last year, and a similar picture for arrivals into China. While

The post Goldman smashes iron ore lower appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 09:00 Source

While the Dow Jones closed at a new record high, Wall Street was more broadly mixed as tech stocks pulled back from their Friday night advances while European stocks also retreated slightly. Risk markets are getting anxious about the slew of central bank meetings this week, with the BOJ going first and then the Fed

The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 08:00 Source

Last week, the NSW Productivity Equality Commission released its final report on housing supply challenges and policy options, which touted higher towers, smaller homes, and fewer car spaces as the solution to the state’s housing crisis: As reported by The ABC: “Higher-density zones around train stations would double in size… The NSW productivity commissioner is

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Cheeseburger Gothic Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 07:45 Source

I had no idea that the kebab, as we know it, is an Australian invention, or rather, an invention of the Turks who moved to Australia. But the Graun set me straight.

Apparently, it arrived here in the early 1980s, which was a surprise. I thought those twirling inverted pyramids of brown mystery meat had always been here. But no.

The doner kebab was brought to Australia by Turkish migrants, who began opening shops as early as the 1980s. And while there is little conclusive data, the community does claim to own a majority of kebab shops around the country.

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The Tally Room Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 07:00 Source

Ben is joined by Leo Puglisi from 6 News to analyse the results of the NSW local government elections.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 07:00 Source

The last few years have been a difficult time for Australia’s rising army of renters, particularly those on lower incomes. The enormous disparity between demand and supply pushed the nation’s rental vacancy rate to historic lows and asking rents to the moon. Earlier this year, Finder’s Consumer Sentiment Tracker showed that 42% of renters were

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 06:28 Source

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE BY GREGORY CLARK IS WEAK...

GUS: GREGORY, RUSSIA IS TREATING UKRAINE CAREFULLY, RATHER THAN WEAKLY... :

 

There must be a negotiated end to the Ukraine War. The alternative is nuclear armageddon.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 06:00 Source

The fact that Ryan Routh was “an ardent supporter of the Ukraine and wants to see Russia attacked, and clearly saw Trump as a threat to Ukraine's future receipt of US military support,” cannot be hidden, says former US State Department official and retired CIA intelligence officer Larry Johnson.

 

Convict, Zelensky fanboy, would-be Trump assassin: Who is Ryan Routh?

 

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