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Emma Alberici interviews employment Minister Eric Abetz.

The government’s ‘bash the unemployed’ has two aims. The first is to scapegoat those whom capitalism throws onto the rubbish bin of unemployment. The victims of capitalism become the cause of their own unemployment (much like it is all the fault of the Palestinians for the Israelis having to kill so many of them.)

He sent children to their deaths in Sri Lanka. He drove two young men to burn themselves to death, and another to attempt to. He caused a riot on Manus in which sixty young men were brutally injured, one with a cut throat, one with a bashed head who died of it. He covered up this murder, and let one of the four murderers escape. He continued to employ the other three, and did not ask any questions of any witnesses. He continued to employ, or to allow his agents to employ, the other twenty or twenty-five head-bashing thugs.

From Reuters: China should set an economic growth target of 6.5-7 percent for 2015 and refrain from stimulus measures unless the economy threatens to slow sharply from that level, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday. Most of its directors hold that view, though some feel that an even-lower growth target is appropriate, the IMF said in the […]

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From the SMH blog: Earnings have been forecast to grow by an average of 15% as the year begins, but end up growing by 6%. Excluding recessions, the initial 15% forecast drops to 11%. But in the past decade or so the downgrades have been smaller. The current picture: In recent months accelerating downgrades suggest limited […]

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US solar giant Recurrent Energy is closing its Australian office because of policy uncertainty over renewables. It could be the start of a mass exodus of international players frustrated by the lack of action, Direct or otherwise, from the Abbott government.

Shoalhaven community energy group offers 6.5% return for investors in 99kW solar system at NSW bowling club to begin installation next week.

Ceramic Fuel Cells reveals 43% increase in sales but warns it will need even higher unit sales to sustain the business.

From Bloomie: Iron ore is heading for the biggest monthly increase this year on speculation that demand for imports in China may be improving, helping to absorb a global surplus as local supplies in the largest buyer are displaced. Ore with 62 percent content delivered to Tianjin rose 0.6 percent to $US95.90 a dry tonne yesterday, according to data from The […]

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From the Kouk: Some mixed news on the economy today – it suggest that the strong start to 2014 may have edged off a little, but that a resurgence in credit growth and on-going house price inflation are issues that will test the RBA in the months ahead. For now, with the economy rolling along […]

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On the top row of my library shelves is a book titled ‘’The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought’’ It is a book that I re visit between making a decision of what to read next. It contains over 100 contributions. Essays from Karl Marx ‘’The Opium of the People’’ – Albert Schweitzer ‘’Reverence for Life’’ – the work oft quoted by Kevin Rudd ‘’Letters from Prison’’ by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘’Autobiography’’ Other writers include, Solzhenitsyn, Schweitzer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nietzsche. None however is more earnestly satisfying than Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”.

Big data is paving way for mobile money, PAYG finance, and distributed solar being made accessible to rural poor of developing countries.

Is Julie Bishop our most under-rated politician? Column for The New Daily.Filed under: Politics Tagged: Julie Bishop, leadership, MH17, political leadership