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Renew Economy Friday, October 18, 2024 - 12:18 Source
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Your Democracy Friday, October 18, 2024 - 10:52 Source

 

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Bret Baier unveils inside look into Kamala Harris interview

 

Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier explains why his exclusive interview with Vice President Kamala Harris was 'a little tense' on ‘Hannity.’

 

 

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Cheeseburger Gothic Friday, October 18, 2024 - 09:57 Source

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Cheeseburger Gothic Friday, October 18, 2024 - 09:51 Source

Yes, yes, yes, it’s AI-generated so its inherently evil.

But still cool.

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 18, 2024 - 09:30 Source

DXY is up and how: AUD fought it for a day after the NDIS jobs release: North Asia is cooked: Gold is completely dislocated from all traditional supports. Other commods are cooked: Miners mashed: EM ouch: Junk is feeling nervous: Yields firmed: Stocks stalled: AUD jumped on the strong NDIS jobs report as we all

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 18, 2024 - 09:00 Source

The long expected cut from the ECB transpire overnight without much fuss, giving European shares a leg up but Wall Street struggled to rebound as the latest retail sales numbers outperformed. The stronger USD weighed further on the undollars with Euro spiralling further down while the Australian dollar continued its descent below the 67 cent

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 18, 2024 - 08:00 Source

Labor MPs are understandably furious that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has spent $4.3 million on a luxury beachfront getaway during a housing and cost of living crisis. “It looks like he’s got one foot out the door”, one MP told The Australian Financial Review, who, like others, spoke candidly only on condition of anonymity. “It’s

The post Albo charges taxpayers $100m to pave love nest driveway appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Renew Economy Friday, October 18, 2024 - 07:25 Source
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The Tally Room Friday, October 18, 2024 - 07:00 Source

Ben is joined by Andrew Messenger from the Guardian to discuss the final stretch of the Queensland election campaign. We spend most of our time going through the key seats in each region of the state, and the issues that have dominated the campaign.

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 18, 2024 - 07:00 Source

The Victorian government has released its Rental Report for the June quarter of 2024, which shows that the number of properties available to rent has declined amid an exodus of property investors. As illustrated in the following table, new lettings fell by 6.4% across Victoria and by 7.0% across Melbourne in the 2023-24 financial year:

The post First home buyers rejoice as investors dump properties appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Friday, October 18, 2024 - 06:52 Source

Hamas chief and Oct. 7 mastermind, Yahya Sinwar, was killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza on Wednesday after more than a year of eluding Israeli forces, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed Thursday.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Friday, October 18, 2024 - 05:49 Source

The recent string of exaggerated military successes – or at least as they are understood to be – places Israel in a situation it has been previously used to: prowess in war. Such prowess promises much: redrawing boundaries; overthrowing governments; destroying the capabilities of adversaries and enemies. Nothing, in this equation, contemplates peace, let alone…

The post Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Renew Economy Friday, October 18, 2024 - 05:00 Source
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Your Democracy Friday, October 18, 2024 - 03:59 Source

THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IS RUSSIA.... PUTIN, MORE TO THE POINT.

SINCE 1917, THE AMERICAN EMPIRE HAS WORKED HARD TO DESTROY RUSSIA....

SO WE IN THE WEST HAVE HAD TO JUSTIFY THIS LONG-STANDING HATE OF RUSSIA... 

IN 2015 SOMEONE (Maria Lipman for the EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS) WROTE THIS CLEVER BUT DESPICABLY "INVERTED" ARTICLE THAT IS FULL OF CRAP:

 

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 18, 2024 - 00:10 Source

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week released data showing that Australia’s birth rate has collapsed to an all-time low of 1.5 babies per woman: The collapse in births combined with a rise in deaths meant that Australia’s population only grew by 105,600 in the year to March 2024 from natural increase: The SMH

The post Australia has become a no-go zone for families appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 18, 2024 - 00:05 Source

The RBA is still going to cut in December. The reason is inflation will be too weak if it does not, Especially so after another round of energy bill rebates is announced: Gareth Aird at CBA: Hiring continues to grow at a strong pace, albeit most of the jobs growth has come in the non‑market

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Your Democracy Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 21:43 Source

After months of avoiding difficult interviews, Kamala Harris finally walked into the lion’s den today, sitting down for an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier. When the interview was announced the other day, I noted to my colleagues what a gamble this was for Harris, the sort of move her handlers would allow only if their previous strategy of avoiding all unscripted media interactions had become untenable.

 

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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 20:24 Source

By Denis Hay Description How the Australian monetary system prioritizes corporations and political elites over citizens. Learn how to reform this for a fairer society. Introduction: The Misuse of Australia’s Monetary Sovereignty Australia holds a significant advantage in being a sovereign currency issuer. Yet, despite the ability to fund essential services, the system is geared…

The post How Australian Monetary System Favours the Powerful appeared first on The AIM Network.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 17:21 Source

National Tertiary Education Union Media Release The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has slammed Australian National University’s bid to cut pay while announcing more job losses. ANU management today announced another 108 job losses across three central divisions after earlier this month cutting 50 jobs from the College of Health and Medicine. Management has also…

The post ‘Staggering’: ANU cuts more jobs while asking staff to take pay cut appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 17:00 Source

Asian stock markets are somewhat mixed after a similarly lacklustre performance on Wall Street and in European stocks overnight as currency traders position for tonight’s ECB meeting. Locally the latest unemployment print surprised to the upside with both Australian stocks and the dollar rebounding higher although the latter is falling back going into the London

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Renew Economy Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 15:34 Source
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Your Democracy Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 15:11 Source

Decades after the end of the Cold War, the US continues to employ proxy warfare as a central strategy in its confrontations with major global rivals, particularly Russia and China. This approach enables the US to extend its influence and pursue its geopolitical objectives without direct military engagement, instead relying on third-party actors to do the heavy lifting. 

 

US tees up Ukrainian and Syrian extremist proxies in fight against Russia

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 14:32 Source

The Chinese Housing Ministry is busy giving the latest yawnulus briefing today and it is not going well. On the surface, it appears bad for prices but better for construction volumes: China said it will expand a program to support “white list” property projects to 4 trillion yuan from about 2.23 trillion yuan already deployed,

The post “Whatever is takes” torched at China property briefing appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Renew Economy Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 14:29 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 14:00 Source

It is incomprehensible that Australia’s leading business paper, which should understand the interaction of supply and demand, lacks the honesty to mention demand when evaluating the housing crisis: The AFR View rightly claims that “housing affordability” policies like looser lending standards and shared equity are unhelpful to Australia’s housing affordability crisis. It also argues that

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The Tally Room Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 14:00 Source

The AEC released the final maps and data for the Victorian federal redistribution earlier today. In this blog post I’m going to post my final estimates of primary votes, two-party-preferred and two-candidate-preferred margins for each seat. At the end I’ve also posted the final pendulum after the completion of the redistributions in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, although we have the draft boundaries for the NT redistribution due tomorrow.

First up, this map shows the changes between the 2022 boundaries, the draft 2025 boundaries and the final boundaries for Victoria.

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Your Democracy Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 13:39 Source

Any new deal to keep Russian gas flowing to the European Union through Ukraine would be a “dangerous”choice, the bloc’s energy chief, Kadri Simson, claimed on Tuesday.

EU countries are well prepared for a winter without Russian gas, the energy commissioner said at a news conference following a meeting of the bloc’s energy ministers in Luxembourg.

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