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The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 09:30
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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… |
MacroBusiness
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 09:20
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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, The post Queen of fake left decrees change in vibe appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 09:19
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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. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 09:00
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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
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Your Democracy
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 06:55
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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.
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Your Democracy
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 02:22
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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. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 00:05
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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 The post Australia’s inflation war not yet won appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 00:01
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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. |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 15:32
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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
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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. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 06:00
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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.
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Your Democracy
Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 05:38
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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? |
Your Democracy
Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 05:19
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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
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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: The post Australian dollar 40 cents looms as China lets yuan go appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 14:04
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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
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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. |
New Politics
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 13:24
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Your Democracy
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 06:30
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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. |
Your Democracy
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 06:00
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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
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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. |
MacroBusiness
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 00:01
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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 The post Albo delivers rental crisis national emergency appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 23:00
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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 The post Weekend Reading: 9-10 September 2023 appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 18:25
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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 The post Macro Afternoon: 8 September 2023 appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 17:08
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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. |
Cheeseburger Gothic
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 17:02
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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
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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… The post To Hell in a Hand Basket appeared first on The AIM Network. |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 15:54
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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
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 14:46
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