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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, August 26, 2024 - 12:34 Source

La Trobe University Media Release La Trobe Ideas and Society Program presents Domestic Violence: Why? What has to be done? This year has seen a sharp rise in awareness of the violent, sometimes murderous, threats to women and their children, by current or former intimate partners. The terrible stories of Rosie Batty, Hannah Clarke and…

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MacroBusiness Monday, August 26, 2024 - 12:30 Source

Morgan Stanley thinks it through. No V-shape, but a modest recovery may be good enough. US steel prices appear to have bottomed, with recent price hikes by Nucor and Cliffs lifting spot US HRC toUS$695-700/st (+7% from the recent lows); we see room for a modest US$20-25/t uplift into YE as US imports continue to

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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, August 26, 2024 - 12:17 Source

Healthy Futures Media Release Today, the Australian Government took a significant step towards improving the integrity of Australia’s emissions reporting by committing to creating an expert panel to advise on fixing under-reporting methane pollution and removing outdated estimate-based methods for calculating methane emissions.  This comes after Healthy Futures, one of Australia’s leading health and climate advocacy…

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MacroBusiness Monday, August 26, 2024 - 12:00 Source

Meet Karen Fermin. She is an occupational therapist, which is a highly sought-after profession. She spent years at the university, gaining her degree, yet all she can afford is a micro-apartment for herself and her daughter that is barely large enough to swing a cat. The ABC’s article on Ms Fermin’s situation should be centred

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MacroBusiness Monday, August 26, 2024 - 11:30 Source

This is completely bizarre. So bizarre that it reeks of Rum Corps manipulation: Australia’s east coast energy market is facing a perfect storm of higher global LNG prices, volatile and intermittent renewables penetration, coal plant outages and extreme weather, increasing fears of gas shortages, spiking power bills and blackouts. Major Australian energy players Senex Energy

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Cheeseburger Gothic Monday, August 26, 2024 - 11:30 Source

Over the weekend, I found myself passing by the Apple Store in the city and noticed that the Apple Vision Pro headsets were available for demo. With half an hour to kill, I thought, why not? I had no intention of buying one, and after the demo, that intention hasn’t changed. I might jot down some thoughts on the new shiny gadget later, but what I do want to talk about is the post-demo experience I had this morning that wasn’t so much weird as it was irritating and slightly creepy.

An email from Apple asking me how “Chloe” did.

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MacroBusiness Monday, August 26, 2024 - 11:00 Source

Thirteen years ago, GlobalHigherEd reported that Australia was being inundated with sham private vocational ‘ghost colleges’ catering to fake South Asian students seeking to work and live in Australia: In 2002 there was just over 11,000 Indian students in Australia, and by 2005 this number had grown to over 27,000… However, by last year enrolments

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MacroBusiness Monday, August 26, 2024 - 10:30 Source

The Market Ear on the AI moment. The most important tech earnings in years The NVDA print is hyped as “the most important tech earnings in years”…(Dan Ives) Investors are jittery. Few of the big tech companies have been able to demonstrate enormous demand from paying customers for AI-powered services, which raises the question of

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MacroBusiness Monday, August 26, 2024 - 10:00 Source

There is no end in sight: Developers still can’t get capital: Infrastructure funding has improved a little: It’s more of the same: China’s housing regulator pledged to swiftly implement a program to purchase unsold apartments and turn them into affordable housing, its latest effort to cushion a record property slump. The government will also push

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xkcd.com Monday, August 26, 2024 - 10:00 Source

The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

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MacroBusiness Monday, August 26, 2024 - 09:30 Source

Friday’s ferrous markets were weak as SHFE and SGX resumed falls: Overnight, the Fed popped and dropped Dalian futures: Coking coal: The latest MySteel readings are very mixed. Flat products have rebounded while long sink: Output is cratered given zero profitability: At 28% below 2019 levels, apparent iron ore demand is lower by nearly 500mt

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MacroBusiness Monday, August 26, 2024 - 09:00 Source

A very supportive speech by Fed Chair Powell, where he outlined that the Fed will do what it can to help US unemployment and that meant swift rate cuts if necessary has seen the little reversal in USD go back the dominant way that risk markets had been thinking all along. Wall Street rallied alongside

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Your Democracy Monday, August 26, 2024 - 08:28 Source

Comedian David Baddiel has defended giving airtime to a Holocaust denier for his BBC Two documentary about the phenomenon, despite a senior Jewish lawyer criticising him for doing so.

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