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AustralianPolitics.com
Saturday, January 27, 2024 - 20:44
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This is the video of Governor-General David Hurley’s 2024 Australia Day Address. The Address was shown on ABC television at 6.55pm on Australia Day. |
AustralianPolitics.com
Friday, January 26, 2024 - 12:32
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Australia Day 1973 passed almost unnoticed, according to one radio news report, but Gough Whitlam used his 53rd day as prime minister to announce a search for a new national anthem.
Whitlam’s announcement of a replacement for God Save the Queen came in his Australia Day address. He said: |
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AustralianPolitics.com
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 18:26
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The Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, has responded to the Prime Minister’s Press Club appearance today. The rhetoric could charitably be described as over-the-top: |
AustralianPolitics.com
Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 15:08
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The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has defended the changes the government has made to the Stage 3 tax cuts. In an address to the National Press Club, Albanese confirmed that the tax system will remain progressive with the reintroduction of the 37% tax scale. Whereas the Stage 3 cuts excluded people on lower incomes, all taxpayers will now receive a tax cut from July 1, but those on higher incomes have had their cut reduced. |
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AustralianPolitics.com
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 14:59
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The former prime minister, Scott Morrison, has announced that he will retire from parliament at the end of February. Morrison made the announcement in a statement posted on Facebook. He said he would “take on new challenges in the global corporate sector and spend more time with my family.” |
AustralianPolitics.com
Saturday, January 20, 2024 - 18:37
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The libertarian economist and newly-elected President of Argentina, Javier Milei, has delivered a strident defence of capitalism at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Reflecting a growing view being expressed by emerging right-wing leaders around the world, Milei said: “Unfortunately, in recent decades, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. Some have been motivated by well-meaning individuals who are willing to help others, and others have been motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste.” |
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AustralianPolitics.com
Friday, January 19, 2024 - 14:55
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This is the official timetable of key dates for the Dunkley by-election on March 2, 2024. The dates show the election is being conducted within the minimum timeframe whereby polling day must be no less than 33 days from the issue of the writ. 2024 Dunkley By-Election Timetable Event |
AustralianPolitics.com
Friday, January 19, 2024 - 12:19
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a “country report” on the Australian economy, warning that growth is weakening and inflation remains persistently high.
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AustralianPolitics.com
Monday, January 8, 2024 - 14:26
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As 2024 starts, a reminder that across the nine federal, state and territory jurisdictions, there are eight Labor governments. Current Australian Heads of Government & Opposition Leaders – from December 21, 2024 No. 1. AUSTRALIA Anthony Albanese 61 ALP 23.05.2022 Peter Dutton |
AustralianPolitics.com
Saturday, January 6, 2024 - 14:05
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On the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection, President Joe Biden has made a swingeing attack on his putative Republican opponent in this year’s election, former President Donald Trump. Speaking in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Biden told his audience: “Democracy is on the ballot. Freedom is on the ballot.” Watch Biden’s speech (33m): |
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Club Troppo
Wednesday, December 27, 2023 - 19:28
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Writing about the proposal of sortition in Ireland seven years ago, Hague takes up the story. |
Club Troppo
Saturday, December 23, 2023 - 16:49
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Michael Polanyi was highly suspicious of the hyper-reductionism of neo-Darwinism. It’s reduction of the evolution of a thing so vast as life into a single causal mechanism. And it was a good call. |
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Digitopoly
Saturday, December 23, 2023 - 13:25
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It is time to review the year in digital technology. Oh, what fun! As with prior reviews, we will arrange this review like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for an award: |
Club Troppo
Saturday, November 25, 2023 - 15:30
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Above is the video of a presentation I made at NESTA in London on 15th November with discussants Claire Mellior and Martin Wolf. I reproduce (AI generated) timestamps in the shownotes of the video below. |
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Prosper Australia
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 13:11
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Prosper’s Director of Research and Policy, Tim Helm, was interviewed by Cameron Murray for the Fresh Economic Thinking podcast on 9 November 2023. Their conversation covered the relationship between the prices of land and housing, how to define and measure landbanking, incentives for landbanking, the relationship between landbanking and housing supply, and methodological issues in […] |
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William Hague has caught the bug for democratic lottery. And he writes about it well. This simple sentence is a nice little microcosm. “Social media companies are poisoning the democratic world with the addictive spread of narrow and intemperate opinions.” Hear hear.