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Your Democracy Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 08:01 Source

A new “water economics” needed to safeguard supplies of domestic water and make it a common good. Australia’s fossil fuels make it a rich “Climate Wrecker”. Carbon capture technologies fail to deliver.

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Your Democracy Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 06:03 Source

Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special” unit created for rich Big Tech mavens seeking military leadership roles.

 

US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels

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MacroBusiness Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 05:01 Source

By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA Australian CPI inflation surprised to the downside at 2.1%/yr in May 2025. The policy relevant trimmed mean measure eased to 2.4%/yr. As a result,we brought forward our expected timing of the next RBA rate cut to July. News offshore was dominated by geopolitical events as hostilities between Israel

The post The economic week ahead appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 18:13 Source

Today we have the auction results for the two biggest markets Sydney and Melbourne, but using a bit of a different approach. When Domain, Corelogic or any number of other property data sources produce their preliminary auction results on a Saturday evening, it perhaps isn’t based on what one would think at first glance. Instead

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MacroBusiness Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 17:02 Source

  Today we meet Ted.  Almost nobody knows who Ted is. In some ways this is a good thing meaning he can walk down the streets of wherever he lives without having soft fruit thrown at him.  But in other ways this may not be such a good thing, seeing as Ted is your shadow

The post Big Ted O’Brien makes a goose of himself appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 13:49 Source

On June 22, a large portion of the France 2, 8 p.m. newscast, hosted by Laurent Delahousse, was devoted to the US attack on Iran.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 09:00 Source

In this MacroBusiness podcast, Gunnamatta and Leith van Onselen unpack the budget outlook, the deindustrialisation of Australia, housing policy failures, energy policy failures, and the nation’s falling productivity growth. Highlights: 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Why Australia’s budget finances are unsustainable 10:30 Australia is deindustrialising 12:07 Australia should be the richest nation on earth 17:46 Australia’s energy

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Your Democracy Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 08:58 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 07:57 Source

The forms of 19th-century European fictions, including the Russian, have a powerful relation to older Christian stories, from the Bible to Bunyan. The novels meet the old tales with part parody, part dialogue, part rejection and reconstruction.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 07:28 Source

The Poetry Of Reality is a podcast hosted by renowned evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins. This is an audio and video experience that tracks our acclaimed protagonist in his navigation of the natural world and his pursuit of truth through scientific curiosity.

 

WELCOME TO The Poetry of Reality

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 07:19 Source

The ABC has long held a reputation as Australia’s sober, publicly-funded bulwark against tabloid sensationalism – the broadcaster you turn to when you want analysis, not alarmism.

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Your Democracy Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 06:32 Source

The Daily Mail has revealed that the grandfather of Blaise Metreweli, who is expected to become the first woman to lead the UK’s foreign intelligence service (MI6), was a Nazi collaborator who oversaw atrocities in occupied Ukraine.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: Trump Sends Dollar Plunging With Plan to Turn Federal Reserve MAGA – The Daily Beat Gen X is the least financially secure generation – Independent Cargo ship carrying 3,000 vehicles, including 800 EVs, sinks in the Pacific Ocean – Live Mint US economy shrunk faster than expected, new data shows – The Hill

The post Weekend reading and media appearances appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Friday, June 27, 2025 - 19:38 Source

Suddenly, nothing grew

The crops around the planet died

The air went dry without dew

The wind carried sands that fried

Hot like a Venusian summer

Cold like a Martian winter

 

What happened asked rat number two

Rat number one could not answer

He was dead as two would soon be too

 

We’re completely out of luck

Number two thought, barely cogent

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The Tally Room Friday, June 27, 2025 - 18:28 Source

Nominations were announced today for the Tasmanian state election. After record-sized ballot papers at the previous election in 2024, they will shrink slightly in 2025. There will be fewer columns on the ballot paper, along with larger fields of ungrouped independents. While ballot papers will be smaller than in 2024, they will still be some of the largest seen in recent decades.

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