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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, September 11, 2023 - 09:30 Source

Media release Sri Lankan refugee Neil Para and his family have been granted permanent visas coinciding with completion of his marathon 1014-kilometre walk from Ballarat to Sydney at the weekend. The inspirational trek through two states put the issue of 10,000 refugees living in limbo without permanent visas firmly on the Australian agenda. Immigration Lawyer…

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 11, 2023 - 09:20 Source

The queen of the fake left, Katherine Murphy, may be stuck in woke ideology, but she is also pragmatic enough to know when it is losing: Labor is transiting from a point in the political zeitgeist when voters were more aspirational. Voters sought a new kind of politics, they voted for it in May 2022,

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Your Democracy Monday, September 11, 2023 - 09:19 Source

Indigenous leader Marcia Langton says a no vote in the referendum would be “a mandate to cause us even further harm” while raising fears about setbacks to reconciliation.

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 11, 2023 - 09:00 Source

Over the weekend, China released its inflation numbers for August. They managed to climb into the positive but it was fa from convincing, driven by only pork and oil. CPI was all pork and petrol: PPI was all oil: Meanwhile, the driver of weakness, the realty crash, shows no sign of abating despite great media

The post Onwards and downwards for China and iron ore appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Renew Economy Monday, September 11, 2023 - 08:07 Source

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Your Democracy Monday, September 11, 2023 - 06:55 Source

At a political fundraiser in Utah on 10 August, U.S. President Joe Biden described China’s economy as a “ticking time bomb”, adding that “That’s not good because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things”. It’s not only an unusually undiplomatic comment, but an unfair one that borders on the ridiculous. 

 

By Colin Mackerras

 

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Your Democracy Monday, September 11, 2023 - 02:22 Source

Journalists from other countries were not allowed to attend the press conference of French President Emmanuel Macron in New Delhi. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the decision was taken to protect freedom of speech. The French government has not commented on the decision.

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 11, 2023 - 00:05 Source

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) last week decided to keep the official cash rate (OCR) at 4.10% for a third consecutive month. This left the OCR at its highest level since April 2012, which follows the nation’s sharpest hike in interest rates in history: The language and tone of the Board Statement were largely

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 11, 2023 - 00:01 Source

Reads: Saudi Arabia squeezes oil market: ‘The Fed may have to react’ – Fortune The US dollar is king again. Here’s why.  – Yahoo The IRS plans to crack down on 1,600 millionaires to collect millions of dollars in back taxes – CNBC The Fed’s own economists now expect a Goldilocks scenario: No recession, low

The post Watercooler reads and vids: 11 Sept to 15 Sept 2023 appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 15:32 Source

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi really wanted to make an impression for his guests and dignitaries, and coarse realities would simply not do. The occasion of the G20 summit presented him with a chance to give the city an aggressive touch-up, touching up a good number of its residents along the way, not to mention…

The post G20 Aesthetics: Modi’s Brutal Delhi Facelift appeared first on The AIM Network.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 10:40 Source

The Right is obsessed with gender. This deep paranoia comes out of America and international far right movements. It harms straight people and LGBTQIA+ people differently, and we need to fight it before our copycat Right entrenches it here too. On Sunday night, Channel 7 broadcast a deeply specious piece of argumentation about trans youth…

The post The war on “gender” is a fascist threat appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 06:00 Source

By now, it’s clear to almost everyone that the West versus East policy train wreck we are witnessing is as much about personalities and warped ideals as it is about hard truths, reality, or anything quantifiable. The Western world is a broken rollercoaster of paid or converted geopolitical psychopaths. Here are some of the latest churnings from the Washington asylum, with my comments.

 

BY Phil Butler

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 05:38 Source

The Rabotino 'meat grinder': Why are Russia and Ukraine fighting so fiercely over a tiny village on the southern front?

What’s going on in the small hamlet in Zaporozhye Region which Kiev claims to have captured?

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 05:19 Source

Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, says she will seek re-election next November. 

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MacroBusiness Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 00:01 Source

DXY is telling us that something is wrong with the global economy. That something is China and Europe: AUD is crawling along the cliff top: As CNY let go. Lowest in 16 years: DXY is helping but oil looks like its consolidating for another push higher: Dirt has decoupled: Miners held: EM stocks are over:

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MacroBusiness Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 14:04 Source

On Friday evening I was interviewed by Sky News’ Erin Molan to discuss Australia’s population growth, as estimated in Wednesday’s national accounts, which saw the nation expand by an estimated 620,000 people over the 2022-23 financial year: This record 2.8% expansion in the 15-plus population is placing great strain on the nation’s rental market and

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 14:03 Source

It all tallies. War, investments and returns. The dividends, solid, though the effort expended – at least by others – awful and bloody. While a certain narrative in US politics continues in the vein of traditional cant and hustling ceremony regarding the Ukraine War – “noble freedom fighters, we salute you!” twinned with “Russian aggressors…

The post “A Good Investment”: The Ukraine War and the US Arms Racket appeared first on The AIM Network.

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New Politics Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 13:24 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 06:30 Source

 

In discussions of the upcoming referendum on establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, a question often raised is how will it make a difference? This has been difficult for advocates to address because instances of governments’ empowering our First Nations peoples are few and far between.

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 06:00 Source

Many of us who write for and read Consortium News are worried about Julian Assange’s personal well-being, especially amid rumors that the British High Court will soon issue a decision to extradite the WikiLeaks publisher to the notorious Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) to face multiple counts of espionage.

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 05:54 Source

With Moscow and Kiev set on achieving their aims by force, there is no hope for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine in the immediate future, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters on Friday.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 00:01 Source

PropTrack has released disastrous rental vacancy data, which collapsed to a fresh record low in August despite large numbers of Australians being forced into group housing: In August, the national rental vacancy rate decreased by 0.14%, marking the lowest level in more than a year. In comparison to the beginning of the pandemic, there are

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MacroBusiness Friday, September 8, 2023 - 23:00 Source

Global Macro / Markets / Investing: Great news! You’re getting fired and your company’s stock just went up 9%. – Variety Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels – The Guardian U.S. dollar’s strength is mostly bad news for countries and companies around the world – MarketPlace Climate crisis

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MacroBusiness Friday, September 8, 2023 - 18:25 Source

  Frederick McKubbin, Landscape, 1914, AGNSW     AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225 Easy Listening    

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The Australian Independent Media Network Friday, September 8, 2023 - 17:08 Source

They really are a brutal lot. While the Queensland Labor Government croons on matters regarding rights, liberties and, it should be said, the plight of the First Nations Peoples, its policy, notably on youth detention, is a contradictory abomination. This situation finds itself repeated across the country, though the Sunshine State, as it is sometimes…

The post Children in Police Watch Houses: A Nasty Queensland Experiment appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Cheeseburger Gothic Friday, September 8, 2023 - 17:02 Source

I sent the first draft of The Forever Dead to Random House about an hour ago.

Now I’m dead.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Friday, September 8, 2023 - 15:57 Source

When a government department requires your land for a new electricity transmission tower, a highway or some other infrastructure they normally advise you of the need and negotiate a sale around the price identified by an independent valuer. The price doesn’t take into account that you will never be able to look at the spot…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Friday, September 8, 2023 - 15:54 Source

The Australian Financial Review was supportive of the ex-Reserve Bank Governor, Phil Lowe, telling its readers that he was the “scapegoat” for Albanese and Chalmers “their foolish promise to lift the wages and living standards of ordinary Australians without any plan to do so”. Poor Phil, he was a man who had the impossible task…

The post Lowe Down, Joyce Gone And One Less Payne In The Liberal Party… appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Renew Economy Friday, September 8, 2023 - 15:27 Source

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