I was wrong to have written off Peter Dutton and the Coalition. On Thursday night, Dutton gave his budget reply speech. And while there were some minor things I disagreed with, I believe he got the biggest policy issues right. Below are the announcements I liked, followed by those I didn’t. Liked alot: East Coast
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One could say the purpose of Nature on planet Earth is to create more of itself in various formats in given conditional environments.
In order to achieve optimum survival, many of the species in nature develop defence against other species to avoid annihilation, as life needs to acquire (steal) proteins from another being — from the smallest to the biggest, relative “food chain”.
Noise around the latest tariff tirade from Trump, this time on cars from – well everywhere – has not really affected Asian stock markets that much relatively speaking as regional concerns outweigh the dummy spitting from the White House. The USD is lifting slightly against the major currency pairs, particularly Euro while the Australian dollar
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Goldman has pumped copper and is now turning. A key signal that the top is near. The US looks set to announce copper import tariffs in the coming weeks, according to apress report. This would shorten the timeline for tariffs, which we were expecting between September and November. What is the impact on physical market
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Let us recall the spectacle of Raja Albo dining with his fellow lords of Indian immigration over a damn good curry and discussions about how to gut the Australian border. Perhaps the suspected baksheesh was insufficient, or the Rajas underestimated Albo’s nature because, today, it is reported the man behind the party is not doing
They keep trying and keep failing to describe what is going on. SMH. Yet a gas reservation policy now will not save Australia from the diabolically embarrassing scenario of having to import gas to keep the lights on in Melbourne and Sydney. Understandably, Australians are having trouble getting to grips with the fact that we
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Greenpeace, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), and WWF Australia are among several environmental groups that will actively target Labor in the run-up to the federal election. They will help fund an advertising campaign against the federal government’s plans to legislate to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry. The groups contend that the legislation will hasten the extinction of