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‘Barwon Heads Road Connewarre, facing West 2040Hrs, 31 December 2021’ Macro & Markets Inflation and China Failed to Rattle Markets. 2022 Might Be Different. – Bloomberg Coronavirus: worst stage of the pandemic may end in 2022, WHO chief says – SCMP From bust to boom: How the 2020s economy could resemble the 1980s – Ninefax

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The countdown is over! Number 1 goes to Dr Jennifer Wilson for this article from February 2021 on what would be one of the biggest stories – and one of the biggest scandals – of the year. Congratulations, Jennifer. The Morrison government is a sewer An allegation of the brutal anal rape of a child in 1988…

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Dominic Perrottet’s COVID “change in approach” will be sceptically received and many will see this contradiction of earlier advice as a belated attempt to manage a situation that has the appearance of being out of control (“One in 10 may catch first wave, Chant says”, December 30).

Macro & Markets Looming mass extinction could be biggest ‘since the dinosaurs,’ says WWF: More plants and animals than ever before are on a global list of threatened species, with the World Wildlife Fund Germany warning that more than 1 million species could go extinct within the next 10 years. – DW South Africa court

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That’s the headline for a story based on an email interview I did with Yahoo News. Over the fold, the full Q and A.

• What are your predictions for NSW given the current numbers?

Assuming that Hazzard’s 25 000 cases a day estimate is correct, that 2 per cent  are hospitalised and and average stay of 10 days, that’s 5000 people in hospital on any given day. NSW has 20700 hospital beds, so almost 25 per cent taken up with Covid

In today’s investment webinar MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen and Senior Financial Advisor Sam Kerr cover the different ways you can invest ethically, how ethical investing really works, why you might consider it, and the investment impacts of the decisionOn the agenda: Defining Ethics Effect on portfolio performance What are the options for

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Canberra’s conduct towards the Timorese was so grave that Australia continues to be regarded, within international legal circles as a cheat.

The idiotic James Morrow has been one of the sources of hilarity and ridicule here before, mostly as one of the monumentally gullible, obsessively antiscientific ‘three stooges’ on Sky News with Rowan Dean and Rita Panahi1,2. Morrow recently wrote a vicious little piece attacking epidemiologists and some of the states’ chief health officers, as well as Dr Norman Swan. It was a classic piece of stupidity in which he mostly whined about how their dire Covid-19 predictions didn’t come true, seemingly ignoring the fact that lockdowns and mask-wearing mitigated the spread of the virus3.