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We have passed the whimsical age

Without a whimper of critical blue rage

Way gone the satirical era of permanent uproar

To contemplate once more the deadly idea that war

Was a dangerous step to turn the page

I was looking at the screen of my radar machine 

On the SSS Ford aircraft carrier for death-polished sheen

It went blank and dark then was messaged with a warning

“YOUR TITANIUM, POLONIUM, TANTALLUM, BIZOTHIUM 

The ABC’s Jacob Greber claims that the international education sector is an “export giant” that is being unfairly targeted by the federal government’s desire to lower net overseas migration. Greber argues that the government’s crackdown on the sector “undermine[s] Australian universities competing against attractive offerings in the UK, Canada and US”. “Limiting how many fee-paying

In ‘Powder keg in the Pacific’ Alfred McCoy is wrong from the very first sentence. He confounds cause and effect, revises history, reverses belligerent and defender, and hard-packs his article through and through with US state department mendacity.

Elon Musk has denounced Joe Biden for saying the businessman had been an “illegal worker” before he became the wealthiest man in the world. The incumbent US president was accusing the billionaire of being hypocritical regarding immigration.

In response to the claims, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made posts accusing the incumbent president outright lying and saying “losing the election was making the Democrats desperate.”

Buying a new high-rise apartment in Australia is a game of financial Russian Roulette. The second half of last decade saw the greatest high-rise construction boom in Australia’s history. In recent years, hundreds of these buildings have been required to remove potentially combustible cladding, at a cost of millions of dollars. There have also been

If bullshit was fungible, both Israel and Ukraine would be rolling in dough and not need another dime of foreign aid. The nonsense spilling out of Tel Aviv and Kiev is legendary and much of the Western public is slurping it up like a ravenous dog eating a bowl of rabbit stew.

BY LARRY JOHNSON

Broken Hill battery finally charges up to support power supplies in the storm damaged region, but why was the technology to support a micro-grid deliberately disabled in the first place?

Ben is joined by Alexis Pink from ZZZ to discuss the LNP coming to power in Queensland. We discuss the divide between north and south, the performances of the minor parties and how this new LNP government might differ from the last LNP government.

DXY was back Friday night: AUD knows no bottom: North Asia is buggered as BOJ hikes pause and Chinese cuts intensify: Oil will be tested after Israel’s benign response to Iran. Gold is a bubble: Base metals can’t decide: Miners stopped the rot: EM meh: Junk saved itself: But yields still up: Stocks meh: Remarkably,

The post Australian dollar from crash to crater appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Last week, CoreLogic recorded a national final auction clearance rate of only 58.2%, which was the worst result of 2024. It was only the second time in 2024 that the final national clearance rate had come in below the 60% mark. The other was the week ending 6 October (59.5%). As shown in the following

The post Auction slump pushes Sydney off house price cliff appeared first on MacroBusiness.

The shift from an essentially liberal, that’s with a lowercase ‘l’, to a neoliberal nation has been most evident in the last few years. How do we define ‘liberal’, as used in the context of an overarching philosophy for a population? This is quite a challenge since the concept has changed very much over time.…

The post From Empire to Liberalism to Neoliberalism appeared first on The AIM Network.

“It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol.” – Paul Keating, Redfern speech.

On not being in control, and learning to ‘Go Round’     By Robbie Lloyd

As the world's most enthralling recruitment process reaches its denouement, maybe it is worth carrying out a thought experiment.

Let's imagine you are running a small business — a fast food franchise, for the sake of topicality — and recruiting a new manager. What would be the red flags in considering applicants for the job?