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Amidst the ongoing controversy and debate relating to the shooting of two people this month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Americans have been left bitterly divided over whether or not their actions were justified. To explore this issue in the most fact-based way as related to how it is perceived

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The ferrous jaws must close! CISA’s second ten days of January output was well below last year. Worse, inventories rise to 16.13mt. This one million tonnes above last year and the prospect of anything but weak restock is all but certain now. The iron ore great pyramids continue to grow. The Steelhome measure is approaching records

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DXY is fast approaching critical support. If it breaks down, and why not, given it is now a measure of the madness of the POTUS, then all bets are off on everything. AUD is more than the mirror image. Supported by rate hike fever and the roaring JPY. Rushing past the plodding CNY. Golden parabola.

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Victoria sets new date for its first offshore wind tender, nearly a year after the original that was delayed last year.

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British Conservative lawmaker Suella Braverman, who was home secretary — the UK equivalent to interior minister — between 2022 and 2023, has joined Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party.

Australia’s housing market is an unmitigated disaster on almost every metric. Cotality’s latest housing affordability report showed that dwelling values relative to household incomes were tracking at a record high of 8.2 in the September quarter of 2025: The ratio of mortgage payments to household income was tracking at a near record high of 45.0%

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This is one of the most depressing Australia Days I can remember. We are still recovering from the horror of the Bondi massacre and the disgraceful jostling for political advantage that followed it. Meanwhile, the news is that opposition is hardening on changing the date to one less offensive to First Nations people. The actual shifts aren’t that great in statistical terms, but there’s no doubt that this shift, along with the rise of One Nation reflects something real.

A $20 million national ad campaign raising awareness of Australian-made products kicked off late last week a manufacturer of low carbon aluminium products.

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The news first. Andrew Hastie has been given the blessing of his young family to enter the Liberal leadership race, as conservative powerbrokers lean towards backing the 43-year-old to replace Sussan Ley. Just hours after likely leadership rival Angus Taylor ­returned from overseas, sources close to Mr Hastie confirmed that the West Australian MP had discussed

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New Zealand experienced one of the biggest house price booms in the world during the pandemic. However, since prices peaked in late 2021, values in real inflation-adjusted terms have plummeted by more than 30% to levels last seen in 2019, nearly six years ago. The latest house price results from the REINZ showed that home

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Last year, I claimed that the Australian Treasury’s modelling of Labor’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers demonstrated that the Treasury had become the federal government’s propaganda arm. Labor’s First Home Buyer Guarantee program, which went into effect in October 2025, allows nearly all first home buyers to purchase a property with only a

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The Great Chinese Depression is in full swing. Property sales are catastrophic in the new year. The secondary market looks like a run for the exits. As prices fall relentlessly. Energy consumption is better but only due to the weather. China is at peak oil. Fiscal is booming. But building is going backwards. The boom

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No matter how hard you try. No matter how many facts you put in its way. The fake left will never acknowledge the terrible truth. It was they who abandoned class politics for culture wars and created the populist right in the process. It’s not rocket surgery, but central to fake left ideology is the

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