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Shane tees off again.  Shane is pro the Population Ponzi.  Invariably long on rant and short of rationale or data Shane has been the less conspicuous but ever present mainstay of the Ninefax pro Ponzi stable. Let us examine his offering……   Migrants – what are they good for? A lot, actually Shane Wright Senior economics

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NATO has been sold to the world as some kind of international security agency. How Orwellian can you get? Peace means war, security means chaos and threats, and rules-based order means domination and exploitation.

After watching the five (if I can still count) idiotes on The View talking about the recent solar eclipse, one can hope that Artificial Intelligence is more intelligent than these cackling crapping geese…

By Gareth Aird, head of Australian economics at CBA: Key Points: The transmission of monetary policy in Australia to the household sector and by extension the broader economy is much more direct and potent than in most other major jurisdictions, particularly when compared to the US. A report released by the IMF on 8 April

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Nominations have been declared for three Tasmanian Legislative Council elections, with polling day on May 4.

Tasmania’s upper house is never fully dissolved, with two or three of the fifteen electorates up for election each year over a six-year cycle.

A poor trading session across stock markets in Asia to finish the trading week in the red, despite a late bounce on Wall Street overnight. The continued strength of the USD due to the fallout of the recent US hot CPI print is still being felt via spikes in bond yields across the world. The

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And then, in a single bound, it was back to small modular reactors. The federal Coalition’s confused nuclear power policy has lurched from SMRs to large scale nuclear and back again to SMRs.

Queensland heads to the polls in October and without bi-partisan support for the state’s existing energy transformation and emission reduction targets, this exciting progress could grind to a halt. 

The latest temporary visa data from the Department of Home Affairs shows that there were a record 713,144 international students in Australia at the end of February 2024: According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), higher education providers earned $14.5 billion in tuition fees from international students in 2022-23. Despite the boom, universities are

A storm of criticism no less: Jim Chalmers’ hand-picked chair of the Productivity Commission has warned Labor’s Future Made in Australia plan would divert ­investment from more productive parts of the economy and lead to higher-than-necessary costs for taxpayers. Danielle Wood – the former Grattan Institute chief executive who the Treasurer tasked with shifting the

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Walking stiffly, largely distracted, and struggling to focus on the bare essentials, US President Joe Biden was keeping company with his Japanese counterpart, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, when asked the question. It concerned what he was doing regarding Australia’s request that the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be returned to Australia.  Assange, who has spent five…

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The December quarter national accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that real per capita household consumption declined by 2.5% in 2023, which was the weakest result outside the pandemic since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008: The February Household Spending Indicator (HSI) from the ABS revealed that, in nominal terms, household spending

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