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Renew Economy Monday, September 30, 2024 - 07:11 Source
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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, September 30, 2024 - 07:05 Source

e61 Institute Media Release Australians have a ‘persistent degree’ of inertia when it comes to their choice of supermarket, which is likely to explain the dominance of Coles and Woolworths more than a lack of access to alternate options, according to new research by the e61 Institute. Using a novel source of data – consumer…

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Your Democracy Monday, September 30, 2024 - 06:34 Source

During a meeting with US media on the UNGA sidelines, Max Blumenthal asked Masoud Pezeshkian about the Biden administration’s accusation this his government was funding pro-Palestine protest in the US, while the newly inaugurated Iranian president campaigned to prevent regional war.

 

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Your Democracy Monday, September 30, 2024 - 05:05 Source

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 30, 2024 - 00:05 Source

Monthly data from the Department of Home Affairs, reproduced below by Justin Fabo at Antipodean Macro, shows that the number of temporary visas on issue in Australia (excluding visitors) reached a new high in August, but growth has flattened out: The number of temporary student visa holders has flattened out just below 700,000, and has

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Renew Economy Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 19:44 Source
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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 18:39 Source

By Denis Hay Description Can Australia achieve zero environmental impact in transport? Explore how EVs, renewables, and innovative tech can create a sustainable future. #SustainableTransport Introduction: Can We Achieve Zero Environmental Impact in Transportationo? As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, the transportation sector stands out as a major contributor to global…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 18:36 Source

By James Moore   “A soldier doesn’t fight because he hates what is in front of him, he fights because he loves what is behind him.” – G.K. Chesterton. He wanted to help. That was a central part of his character and explained his personal mission. Everyone of his peers and family would have understood if…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 16:43 Source

The wonderful serendipity of the internet caused me to stumble across something I wrote or in February, 2017. (You can read the whole thing if you like by clicking on this link: The Future Is Different! If That Seems Obvious Then Why Are So Many Acting As Though It Isn’t!). Anyway, remembering this was written…

The post Perhaps, I Really Am Clairvoyant Or Is Politics Just That Obvious? appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 14:04 Source

Last weekend recorded the lowest final auction clearance rate of 2024, with only 60.7% of homes selling across the combined capital cities. The result was also 5.4 percentage points below the success rate seen in the same weekend last year (66.1%). In Melbourne, 1,335 homes were auctioned last weekend, the busiest week of the year

The post Auction market crashes as “fear of missing out” evaporates appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 12:44 Source

DXY is still tripping the light fantastic: AUD is up and away. 70 cents next: North Asia thermal: Gold stopped. Oil is still troubled: The new metals boom paused: Mining melt-up: EM gapping is unprecedented: Junk the red rag: Yields faded: Stocks too: Goldman has wrapped on the AUD: AUD: Temporary tailwinds. With the Fed

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 12:32 Source

Qantas Engineers’ Alliance Media Release More than a thousand Qantas engineers, fed up with management’s refusal to negotiate reasonable wages, are set to escalate the impact of their ongoing industrial action with line maintenance engineers – whose duties include the towing and marshalling of aircraft – to walk off the job during peak-hour flights on…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 11:49 Source

The ongoing Israeli operation against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia group so dominant in Lebanon, is following a standard pattern. Ignore base causes. Ignore context. Target leaders, and target personnel. See matters in conventional terms of civilisational warrior against barbarian despot. Israel, the valiant and bold, fighting the forces of darkness. The entire blood woven tapestry of…

The post The Illusion of a Solution: Killing Hassan Nasrallah appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 11:19 Source

Mainstream American political leaders regularly argue that the United States adheres to, defends and promotes a “rules-based international order.” What’s that? It’s rarely defined.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 10:18 Source

The Queensland LNP have a policy (just the one !) which they believe will sweep them into government come the 26 October state election. They have taken their lead from the Northern Territory CLP where it’s all about crime and punishment – mainly Aboriginal crime although that is thinly veiled. The Queensland LNP have adopted…

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Renew Economy Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 08:52 Source

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 08:42 Source

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) plans to soon enter southern Lebanon, ABC News reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed senior US official. The US outlet described the supposed operation as “very limited” but provided few details about its nature or when it may begin.

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Your Democracy Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 06:56 Source

You will comply: This post-Soviet country is too independent for the West. Punishment is at handWashington and Brussels are ramping up the pressure on Georgia again, believing others’ sovereignty isn’t the same as theirs...

 

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 28, 2024 - 13:35 Source

Richard Marles and his mate, the US Defense Secretary, are beginning to wilt under the weight of sustained comment in Australia critical of the AUKUS arrangement.

Marles, unable to sustain a cogent argument himself, has his US friend propping him up in London to throw a 10,000-mile punch at me – and as usual, failing to materially respond to legitimate and particular criticisms made of the AUKUS arrangement.

 

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, September 28, 2024 - 12:33 Source

Australian Federal Police Association Media Release The critical shortage of police officers across Australia, as reported today, is a particularly acute problem in the Australian Federal Police, where officers are relatively underpaid compared to other jurisdictions. AFP Association President Alex Caruana: “AFP officers are overworked and under-resourced and the situation has reached a tipping point.…

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The Tally Room Saturday, September 28, 2024 - 12:00 Source

The maps and data for the final WA federal redistribution were released on Tuesday this last week but unfortunately I was busy at the time packing up to move house the next day. I have now had a chance to update the analysis I published when the drafts were released.

The announcement in early September revealed that six of the sixteen new electorates were modified from the draft to the final version, and those changes all appear to be quite minor.

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 28, 2024 - 07:18 Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItFMwaSzM0g

INTEL Roundtable w / Johnson & McGovern : Weekly Wrap Up

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQO1rmWdlHQ

Antony Blinken Lied To Congress About Aid Delivery To Gaza: Report | The West Asia Post

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, September 28, 2024 - 06:37 Source

Russia Hammers Ukraine With Hypersonic Strikes, Liberates Key Villages in Donetsk

In addition, over the past week, 66 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen surrendered to Russian captivity, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, September 28, 2024 - 00:15 Source

Treasurer Jim Chalmers recently claimed that the RBA was “smashing the economy” by keeping interest rates high. On Tuesday, the RBA kept the official cash rate on hold at 4.35% and warned that rates are unlikely to come down this year. The RBA acknowledged that headline inflation will fall below the target on the back

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MacroBusiness Saturday, September 28, 2024 - 00:01 Source

International Reads: Trump Would Totally Demolish Economy With His Plans, Says New Report – New Republic Most Millennials Believe They Need to Be Millionaires to Thrive, a New Report Says – Yahoo How Harris’s ‘opportunity economy’ could finally free the US from poverty – The Hill Disney Layoffs Underway: Hundreds Of Corporate Staffers Impacted –

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The Australian Independent Media Network Friday, September 27, 2024 - 21:23 Source

By Michele Madigan  As always, on August 6th we commemorated the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and later Nagasaki, when many lives were immediately obliterated and the lives of so many more, the Hibakusha were set on a terrifying trajectory of post bomb living.                        …

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Your Democracy Friday, September 27, 2024 - 19:03 Source

Tense second conversation, as Professor John Mearsheimer humiliates Piers Morgan's assertions on Ukraine, Russia, Putin, sending arms, the direction of the conflict, the potential use of nuclear weapons, NATO, and more.

Prof. John Mearsheimer Belittles Piers Morgan for second time on Ukraine, Russia, Nuclear, Putin.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnZxZWMkQGU

 

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MacroBusiness Friday, September 27, 2024 - 17:00 Source

It’s still green across the board as Asian share markets as the PBOC pushes through with its rate cut agenda, although local shares barely moved in response. The pullback in USD has continued although Yen is moving around due to localised inflation prints while the Australian dollar is stalling out just below the 69 cent

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Renew Economy Friday, September 27, 2024 - 14:02 Source
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The Australian Independent Media Network Friday, September 27, 2024 - 14:00 Source

By Jane Salmon “Fast Track” Visa Process DeRailed, Connecting Service Missing: Mass Transit to PR Overdue, Tony Burke. The clunky “Fast Track” visa processing “system“ was dismantled for refugees long before a connecting service could be arranged. In fact, it proved to be an expensive “Side Track”. A much-discussed High Speed Rail route to permanency…

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