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Renew Economy Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 12:12 Source
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The Australian’s Judith Sloan last week attacked the “shoddy” economic arguments used by those who favour large immigration numbers and open-border policies. The canards identified by Sloan include the following: Recent high figures of net overseas migration (long-term arrivals minus long-term departures) are merely a catchup from the pause caused by Covid. The overall trend

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Renew Economy Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 12:00 Source
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Renew Economy Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:34 Source
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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:30 Source

In the wake of the recent assassination of American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at an event at Utah Valley University, there has been a renewed drive for greater levels of gun control in the United States. Historically, the push for greater gun control in the U.S. has been accompanied by commentary that America should follow

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Green groups have attacked the planned mass rollout of “biodiversity-destroying” wind turbines across regional Australia. Veteran conservationist and former federal Greens leader Christine Milne told The Australian that peak environmental non-­government organisations were too “frightened” to oppose renewables projects: “I find it incomprehensible that you get this line back (from NGOs) that you can’t oppose

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 10:30 Source

When the latest polling from Resolve was published by the Sydney Morning Herald and the other Nine Entertainment papers, it revealed that the One Nation primary vote was polling at a record high of 12%, overtaking the Greens as the third largest primary vote. While this is just one poll, a broader long-term analysis of

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 10:00 Source

According to Domain, Australian home values are soaring at the lower end of the market, putting immense strain on affordability for first home buyers. Domain data shows that property prices in the bottom quarter of the market have increased faster than the top quarter during the last three years in most capital cities. “What it

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The Tally Room Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 09:30 Source

The Tasmanian government has announced plans to “reform” Tasmanian local government by slashing the number of councillors across the state. The government has put up a discussion paper on the topic, but in short it would reduce the number of elected officials on councils to five, seven or nine members. Across the state, this would remove almost 23% of all councillor positions.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 09:12 Source

The unnerving alliance between Big Tech and the second Trump administration goes much deeper than many in the public realize. What factors are motivating President Trump and Silicon Valley’s monumental investments in “artificial intelligence” infrastructure and the expanded integration of “AI” into military and governmental operating systems?

 

 

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 09:00 Source

From the Market Ear: AIQ at the most overbought levels since July 2024…just before markets crashed. The tech buy in Last week’s “notional net buying in global Info Tech was the largest in seven months and ranks in the 99th percentile on a 5-year lookback”. Soon enough… Everybody has been waiting for weak September… but

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 08:00 Source

In the years since pandemic-driven stimulus and ‘revenge spending’ began to feed out of the economy in the September quarter of 2022, Australia’s economy has, in headline terms, continued to grow decently enough. It’s hardly been stellar, with the economy achieving cumulative growth of just 4.63% since the June quarter of 2022, but the ‘Lucky

The post Australia – The lipstick on a pig economy appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 06:32 Source

A former Israel Defence Forces chief of staff says more than over 10% of Gaza’s population of approximately 2.2 million was killed or injured since October 2023.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 05:55 Source

China’s recent display of its newly acquired military might surprised not only international observers, but also its own seasoned diplomats.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 00:05 Source

It is important to view Australia’s immigration policy in a historical context. In the first 60 years after World War 2, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per annum, with only two years over that 60-year period recording a NOM of more than 150,000. In the 15 years of ‘Big Australia’ immigration leading up

The post Australians don’t support high immigration appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Renew Economy Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 00:01 Source
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Renew Economy Monday, September 15, 2025 - 22:30 Source
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Cheeseburger Gothic Monday, September 15, 2025 - 17:12 Source

I realised about halfway through World War 3.2 that I couldn’t finish the story in 3.3. I didn’t even have space in this most recent book to check in on Lonesome Jones. He just gets a few call-outs by other characters. And even though there is a whole ‘nother war in the Pacific and North Asia, we didnt see any of that either. (At least Jones got to kick some ass in 3.1).

So, yeah, I had to accept there would be a lot more AoT coming.

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Renew Economy Monday, September 15, 2025 - 16:06 Source

Banana Range and Dawson wind farm EDF

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Renew Economy Monday, September 15, 2025 - 14:59 Source

climate protest - sydney - michael mazengarb - optimised

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Renew Economy Monday, September 15, 2025 - 14:48 Source
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MacroBusiness Monday, September 15, 2025 - 14:00 Source

I reported last week how New Zealand is facing an employment crisis. The official Q2 labour force survey from Stats NZ showed that New Zealand’s unemployment rate increased to 5.2% in the second quarter of 2025, up from 4.7% in Q2 2024. The underutilisation rate also rose by 3.5% over the year to 12.8%. As

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 15, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Robert Gottiebsen at The Australian argues that the Coalition risks inciting deep animosity among a core part of its traditional supporter base, including farmers and shareholders. This cohort is being targeted by Labor’s proposed 30% tax on the unrealised capital gains of superannuation balances of more than $3 million. Gottliebsen believes that Labor would most

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John Quiggin Monday, September 15, 2025 - 12:43 Source

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

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Renew Economy Monday, September 15, 2025 - 12:23 Source
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MacroBusiness Monday, September 15, 2025 - 12:00 Source

The latest benchmark revision from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, covering data up to March of this year, revealed that the U.S. economy created 911,000 fewer jobs than initially measured. While a downward revision was widely tipped by analysts, with the consensus estimate of 600,000 fewer jobs being created, the actual figure surprised significantly

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Renew Economy Monday, September 15, 2025 - 11:41 Source

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Shortly before Britain went to the polls for the 2010 General Election, then Opposition Leader David Cameron released the Conservative Party’s manifesto, pledging to cut net migration into the U.K. from 200,000 people per year to “tens of thousands of people per year”. At the time, polling showed that immigration was the second most important

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