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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 09:00 Source

Friday night was a consolidation session for risk markets as they digested all the interest rate meetings of the week, with US bond yields falling slightly while the USD held sway over the currency majors. Wall Street stumbled a little bit but held on to their gains while European stocks were all over the place

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Your Democracy Monday, March 25, 2024 - 09:00 Source

A cabal of neo-conservative, anti-China politicians who call themselves the Wolverines, a nod to the 1980s Patrick Swayze movie Red Dawn, have just spread their network to Tasmania, thanks to last night’s election of Eric Abetz, and are ramping up their presence in WA. 

Robert Barwick reports. 

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 08:30 Source

The Senate’s inquiry into the retirement system has been extended for 12 months and will now run until June 2025. The inquiry’s terms of reference have also been expanded, and it will consider how superannuation can be used to increase home ownership. The inquiry is chaired by Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg, who contends that Australians

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Your Democracy Monday, March 25, 2024 - 08:22 Source

PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members. 

 

By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost 

 

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Renew Economy Monday, March 25, 2024 - 07:09 Source
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Your Democracy Monday, March 25, 2024 - 06:54 Source

Now is the time for talks that will bring us closer to peace and away from a deadly and destructive war with no end in sight.

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 06:31 Source

Labor is well on its way to becoming a minor party: But head-to-head it’s still OK: Everybody hates Albo and The Bollard: It’s worst versus worsterer.

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John Quiggin Monday, March 25, 2024 - 06:29 Source

Elections over the last week have seen some pretty good outcomes for the Greens and some very bad outcomes for both Labor and the LNP.

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John Quiggin Monday, March 25, 2024 - 06:28 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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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 00:21 Source

This is a pretty cowardly effort by Peter Hartcher: On the day this week that we learnt Australia’s population had grown faster than at any time since 1952, when Bob Menzies was prime minister and the British were setting off their first nuclear test in Australian territory, Pauline Hanson stood up in the Senate to

The post Time to burst the Pauline Hanson bubble appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 00:05 Source

Domain claims that dramatically shrinking the lot sizes of Australian homes would improve affordability. “Housing will become more accessible to more people as they can buy a smaller block but for a lower overall price”, said Nicola Powell, Domain’s chief of research and economics. “The cost of land is the major component in a house

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Renew Economy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 13:59 Source
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The Tally Room Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 11:57 Source

In this post I’m going to run through each seat in depth, explaining who I think has won and which seats are in play.

To summarise, at the moment I have 15 Liberals, 10 Labor, 5 Greens, 3 JLN and two independents in the lead.

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Cheeseburger Gothic Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 11:02 Source

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The Tally Room Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 10:03 Source

There’s still a bunch of votes to count, and preferences will need to be distributed before some seats are decided, but there’s still a lot to say.

There was a very clear shift away from Jeremy Rockliff’s Liberal Party, who have suffered a swing of 11.9%, but little of that went to Labor, who have only gained a swing of 1%.

The Greens also experienced a small gain, and this slightly increased vote combined with a lower quota puts the Greens in a position to win a bunch of extra seats. A majority of the swing went to the Jacqui Lambie Network, who look set to win a number of seats.

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Your Democracy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 09:14 Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a_0nbm7Erc

French Army Going to Ukraine Will Be a DISASTER

 

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

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Your Democracy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 06:58 Source

The truth about LNG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAUYI_eX24

 

More and more gigantic tankers carrying LNG, liquefied natural gas, are crisscrossing the oceans – and we're building infrastructure to trade ever larger amounts. But shouldn't we be moving AWAY from fossil fuels?

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Your Democracy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 06:40 Source

The US empire SABOTAGES entire nations for the same reason it sabotages domestic infrastructure... to KEEP US DOWN!

https://www.brighteon.com/a1ee8938-260b-4755-affb-5b68e2fea5c2

 

THIS IS CONSPIRACY THEORY.... AND THE CONSPIRACY COULD BE TRUE!....

GUS LEONISKY, POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951, HAS NO WAY TO VERIFY THE TRUTH...

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 06:31 Source

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Swedish engineer Erik Andersson, who led the first independent investigation to the site of the Nordstream pipelines blast sites, on the Swedish government’s sudden closing of the investigation into the terror attack on the eve of joining NATO.

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Your Democracy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 06:26 Source

As I was saying to Diocletian over Prosecco just last week, it is hard to run an empire these days. You have to lie to people more or less incessantly to keep the troops minding the perimeter in supplies. No falsehood is too preposterous to gain the public’s acquiescence. At times you have to deceive even the Senate. 

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Renew Economy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 21:19 Source
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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 20:02 Source

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The Tally Room Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 18:00 Source

Polls have just closed for the Tasmanian state election. Polls will also close in the Dunstan state by-election in South Australia in half an hour.

I won’t be liveblogging here tonight because I’ll be appearing on air on ABC Radio’s election night broadcast. You can hear it on ABC Hobart and ABC Northern Tasmania local radio, as well as ABC News Radio. The show will start at 7:30pm.

While I won’t be posting here, feel free to chat about the results in the comments.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 17:09 Source

Actions speak louder than words if not nearly as often, while inactions can speak louder than both. The Liberals are paying lip service to a target of fifty percent women in ten years, after Morrison’s catastrophic election hot mess-dumpster-fire-trainwreck in 2022 triggered an independent review from Peta Credlin’s manbag, Brian Loughnane and jolly Jane Hume.…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 14:37 Source

By Callen Sorensen Karklis   The election results of the local government elections are in. Some will be despairing on both the progressive and conservative sides in some key areas around the state, while others on each side will be content with the results. One thing despite it all is obvious: QLD Premier Steven Miles should…

The post Analysis of the 2024 Qld Council Elections appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 12:43 Source

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 11:57 Source

Be wary of what Washington offers in negotiations at the best of times. The empire gives and takes when it can; the hegemon proffers and in equal measure and withdraws offers it deems fit. This is all well known to the legal team of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who, the Wall Street Journal “exclusively” reveals,…

The post Julian Assange and the Plea Nibble appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 11:37 Source

The storm in a teacup about political donations comes from another era, and it’s time to move on. People over the age of 60 will remember that era. Things lost in the post, cheques, facsimile machines, paper invoices, and accounts receivable people entering numbers into spreadsheets were all reconciled for the end of the month

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 10:10 Source

When Donald Trump surprised the political establishment and won the 2016 US presidential election, there was a mad scramble within the Turnbull government to get in touch with him.

Australia’s then ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, came to the rescue by getting Trump’s number from the US-based Greg Norman, who was a friend of the golf-mad president-elect.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 09:17 Source

The dead cat bounce in Chinese steel prices continued Friday, though SGX iron ore flamed out: The Dalian Death Cross is here: The latest MySteel data remains alarming: Its commentary is equally so: The blast furnace (BF) capacity utilization rate among the 247 Chinese steel producers under Mysteel’s regular tracking ended a four-week drop and

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