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The Tally Room Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 17:10 Source

It has barely been two weeks since the no confidence motion passed, and just over a week since the Tasmanian state election has been called, but the candidates are coming out of the woodwork very quickly.

I have now updated my election guide to feature those candidates announced so far.

The Liberal Party and Labor have now announced a full slate of 35 candidates. The Liberals finished announcing their ticket this afternoon, when they announced their last four candidates for Clark.

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Renew Economy Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 16:22 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 16:00 Source

The Israel-Iran war continues to dominate risk markets as the TACO-in-Chief threatens to join in with bunker busters over the weekend to eliminate the Iranian nuclear facilities. The USD is gaining strength against most  of the undollars with the Australian dollar losing ground on a relatively weak unemployment today, heading back below the 65 cent

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George Monbiot Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 15:45 Source

Protection should be the default state of the oceans.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th June 2025

I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “marine protected areas” (MPAs). At last, some solid research on seabed carbon and the vast releases caused by the trawlers ploughing it up. But still I feel that almost everyone is missing the point.

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Renew Economy Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 14:16 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:30 Source

Liberal MP Garth Hamilton has called for sweeping changes to the tax system, arguing that it needs to be inclusive and support modern families. His suggestions for reform include introducing lifetime deductions on tax rates for mothers, in recognition of the fact that they often have lower salaries when they return to the workforce. Hamilton

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Renew Economy Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:28 Source

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:24 Source

ANZ with report. Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions declined 1.2% in the year ending March 2025, according to the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory. This follows a flat annual result over the year to December 2024. Excluding the land use, land use change and forestry4 (LULUCF) sector, annual emissions fell 1.0% in the year to March

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:00 Source

The blueprint for how to fix Australia’s tax system was spelled out 15 years ago by the Henry Tax Review. Unfortunately, both sides of government ignored its recommendations. Fast forward to today, and the federal budget is facing a decade of budget deficits amid the unwinding of commodity prices, the ageing population, and increasing spending

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 12:30 Source

The cartel is back, baby. And so are ludicrous electricity prices. Bowen is the great fiddler. The Australian. The Albanese government’s planned overhaul of household electricity price caps could put small energy retailers surviving on razor-thin profit margins out of business. Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen confirmed the government would review the Default Market Offer

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:56 Source

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the May labour force report, which reported a steady unemployment rate of 4.1% despite the loss of 2,500 jobs. The unemployment remained steady due to the 0.1% fall in the labour force participation rate. However, despite the loss of jobs, monthly hours worked jumped by 1.3% in

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:30 Source

The Market Ear on a rapidly exhausting market. Shorts stopped out Recent equity strength has been fueled by underweight positioning and a brutal short squeeze. But signs of relief are emerging — UBS reports the strongest hedge fund deleveraging since March, with sharp short covering. Nasdaq short interest is now in the 25th percentile, showing just

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Your Democracy Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:01 Source

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has confirmed that his agency has no firm evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, debunking the justification used by Israel to launch its aggression last week. Sputnik asked commentators including a renowned Iraq War whistleblower to weigh in why Israel and Washington neocons are so eager to beat the drums of war.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Labor’s Powering Australia Plan claimed that it would cut NEM wholesale power rates by $11 per MWh (from $62 to $51) by 2025. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised RepuTex Energy’s analysis as “the most comprehensive modelling ever done for any policy by any ­opposition in Australia’s history since Federation”. Albanese also regularly claimed that Labor

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 10:30 Source

DXY went nowhere. AUD recovered some. Lead boots are going sideways. Oil short? Metals bifurcating. Biug miner bear one for the ages. EM meh. Junk hasn’t budged. Long end sort of OK. Stocks nothing burger. Here are the Fed headlines. *FED HOLDS BENCHMARK RATE IN 4.25%-4.5% TARGET RANGE *FOMC MEDIAN FORECAST STILL SHOWS 50 BPS

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Renew Economy Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 10:06 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 10:00 Source

Australia’s annual R&D spending has also fallen to only 1.68% of GDP, well below the OECD average (3%) and the lowest among developed nations. As a result, the Albanese government has launched a review into Australia’s R&D, which is analysed below by independent commentator and MB Subscriber, Stephen Saunders. By Stephen Saunders Thus far, Australia’s

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The Tally Room Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 09:15 Source

I’ve previously posted a number of times before about the dataset I have compiled of election results since 2004, adjusted for 2025 electoral boundaries.

Most recently, prior to the election, I specifically did a comparison of the 2007 and 2022 electoral map: two elections with similar two-party-preferred votes and a similar number of seats with a two-party-preferred majority for each major party.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 09:00 Source

Overnight saw the Federal Reserve hold fire in their latest FOMC meeting although the reasons were more domestic than foreign macro problems as the Trump regimes tariff tirades are really starting to slowdown the US economy. The potential entry of the US into the fraca in the Middle East gave risk markets further pause but

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Your Democracy Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 08:38 Source

Pandering to the strategic goals of the United States, which puts a target on our nation’s forehead, our Government keeps lying to us. Michael Pascoe with some uncomfortable truths.

First, a little context, a little perspective, before getting to our government blatantly and consistently lying to us:

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 08:00 Source

Master Builders Australia (MBA) has used a submission to the Productivity Commission to argue that the federal government should provide tax incentives to builders who meet industry standards. The MBA argues that this would help boost competition, investment, and productivity in the sector, while also reducing the cost of building new homes. MBA CEO Denita

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Your Democracy Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 06:44 Source

On a threatening June evening, America’s army turned 250 and put on a show that revealed more than it intended.

Tanks and missile carriers rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue. Fighter jets flew over the Capitol dome. The President, visibly aged, saluted the display, a general on each side.

 

Stewart Sweeney

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Your Democracy Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 06:30 Source

One underrated voice in President Trump’s ear has broken his silence on the ongoing Israel-Iran war with a lengthy and powerful statement this morning that contains significant historical context. 

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MacroBusiness Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 00:05 Source

Australia’s unemployment rate is currently 4.1%, a historically low figure. The low unemployment rate has been driven by the boom in non-market (government-funded) roles, such as those related to the NDIS. The latest batch of data suggests that job growth has stalled, portending rising unemployment. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, last

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