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Black Lives Matter has criticized the Democratic Party for "anointing" Vice President Kamala Harris as the expected Democrat presidential nominee without a public vote.

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International Reads: It turns out a lot of return-to-office mandates were meant to make workers quit – QZ Elon Musk warns ‘America is going bankrupt’ as interest payments on US debt ate up 76% of June’s income tax revenue – Yahoo These are America’s 10 worst states for quality of life in 2024 – CNBC

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Media heir Lachlan Murdoch hosted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and several Australian billionaires on Thursday evening, less than 24 hours after it emerged that his father, Rupert Murdoch, had moved to cement his media empire’s conservative edge beyond the grave.

The proposition of clean hydrogen derived from carbon capture and storage is misleading and fanciful.

Cyan Renewables plans to spend at least $US1 billion in Australia's offshore wind industry after buying out a local Australian marine services provider.

Solar would not happily co-exist in a toxic ‘frenemy” relationship’ with nuclear. Instead, we urgently need a great Aussie marriage of home solar with home batteries.

Data from property group Domain shows that the median house price in Brisbane has risen by 4% in the last three months to a record high of $976,464. Domain expects Brisbane’s median house price to reach $1 million within three months. The firm had forecast in April that the $1 million median price milestone would

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Last month, Michael Fotheringham, a major immigration propagandist and managing director of the Australian Housing and Research Institute, touted group housing as a solution to Australia’s housing crisis. “We are consuming more houses for the number of people we have… The number of people per household is decreasing. Australia is increasingly becoming a nation of

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I have criticised Bloomberg commodities analysis before. But today’s effort goes from bad to disastrous. Stock-market routs like Wednesday’s highlight the importance of portfolio diversification. While not suitable for all investors, commodities are looking increasingly cheap and uncorrelated to the equity market. Unlike stocks — which experience their worst drawdowns in a recession — commodities rally