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The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 16:51
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Not only are many Australians ungrateful for the privileges and the way of life this country provides us, writes Daemon Singer in this guest post, but they also wish to deny others from enjoying the rewards of our country too. Although many of us are appalled at this, we keep electing governments that perpetuate the cruel policies towards asylum seekers. Where are our hearts? asks Daemon. |
Delimiter
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 16:39
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It seems that no matter where you look, someone is trying to fix the Australian Internet television market. Attorney-General George Brandis, as his Labor predecessor Mark Dreyfus did before him, is trying to block Internet piracy. Quickflix and FetchTV are still trying to create viable competitors to Foxtel's pay TV operation. And Foxtel itself is obviously trying to make as much hay as possible while its sun still shines. Into this fraught situation comes Richard Branson's Virgin Group. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 16:39
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Stan Shaum for Chris Weston, Chief Market Strategist at IG Markets It has been a tough start to the week for Asian equities as investors juggle some concerning headlines. Today was the first chance investors had to react to China data released over the weekend which exposed volatility in China’s export growth yet again. There [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 16:20
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It’s clear now MH379 did not crash, did not blow up, and was made to fly to a place unknown by two hijackers with undetected weapons. We will hear from them by Saturday, and ponder their demands. They will be to do with America pulling its military, or its oil-drilling machinery, or its McDonalds franchise, out of some country or other. The destination would be a former Soviet country with Muslims in it. |
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Delimiter
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 15:24
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Queensland-based software vendor Technology One has poached the executive in charge of the state government's IT renewal program to become a business development executive, in a move that will further stimulate ongoing questions about the close relationship between the state's public sector and its IT vendors. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 15:20
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It takes a certain kind genius to be this profoundly inaccurate with such unfailing regularity. I take my hat off it! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit + - [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Croakey
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 15:17
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Melissa Davey Once you’re done with the Health Wrap, be sure to check out this Croakey round-up of health news to make you smile. What about the children? Regulation of alcohol advertising is failing to properly protect children and... Read more on the blog... |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 15:04
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WA Treasurer, Troy Buswell, most famous for the 2008 chair sniffing incident , has resigned: …after he had an emotional breakdown and has been hospitalised for 10 days in Perth and Sydney. WA premier Colin Barnett has been sworn in as Treasurer and Transport Minister pending a cabinet reshuffle later in the week. “Troy is in [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 14:52
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From Bloomie: China’s yuan fell after the central bank cut the currency’s fixing by the most since July 2012 and the nation’s exports unexpectedly declined last month. The People’s Bank of China lowered thedaily reference rate by 0.18 percent to 6.1312 per dollar today, the weakest level since Dec. 3…The cut in the yuan fixing “is significant, coming [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Delimiter
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 14:44
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A very interesting article on Techworld last week highlights the fact that IT security as a service is currently exploding in Australia, with smarter, sleeker, cloud-based alternatives to the old models coming to the fold. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 14:40
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By Martin North, cross-posted from the Digital Finance Analytics Blog Today we continue our series on housing demand, by looking at the underlying drivers across the states. We find that there are some important differences in household form and structure which explains some of the regional variations we highlighted previously. The results are based on [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 14:20
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By Leith van Onselen Ross Gittins has published a sensible and pragmatic take on the privatisation debate, whereby he argues that asset sales should be assessed on a case-by-case basis dependent on three criteria: …the first test of whether a proposed privatisation is in the public interest: it ought to involve an increase in competition [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Croakey
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 14:16
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It seems doctors will not face $5000 fines, after all, if they don’t request the removal of unsolicited online comments about their services, according to a “clarification” by the Medical Board of Australia on controversial new advertising... Read more on the blog... |
Delimiter
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 14:14
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Greens Communications Spokesperson Scott Ludlam has described the Coalition's new front bench as "technically illiterate", in a wide-ranging speech in the Senate last week kicking off his campaign to be re-elected in the upcoming Senate by-election in Western Australia and attacking Prime Minister Tony Abbott over various tech-related issues, from Internet piracy to the National Broadband Network. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 13:49
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Below find a piece I wrote for Crikey this morning on China’s “war of steel”. It repeats some of this morning’s ruminations but is also a more clear crystallisation of my views on what China is doing to its steel sector. Last week brought one of those magical moments in Australian business media when a [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 13:18
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Markets are not enjoying the China data. From the SMH blog: Shanghai copper has dropped by its 5 per cent daily limit to its lowest in more than four years after weak Chinese trade data fanned concerns over its metals industry following the country’s first domestic bond default last week. The most-traded May copper contract on [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Drag0nista's Blog
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 13:11
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Tough reform from the Coalition playbook. Weekly column for ABC’s The Drum.Filed under: Politics Tagged: ABC The Drum, Fair Work Act, GST, industrial relations, John Howard, productivity commission, Tony Abbott, workchoices, workplace relations |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 13:07
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From the FT: Efforts by central banks to spur economic recovery by providing guidance on what will happen to interest rates could endanger the global financial system, economists at the Bank for International Settlements have warned. Investors are being encouraged to load up on risk because they believe forward guidance will warn them well in [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Delimiter
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 12:49
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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull's new Ministerial Advisory Council last week features representatives from virtually every major Australian telecommunications company of any note. But the group most important to the future of the Australian telco sector -- consumers -- appear not to have been invited. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 12:46
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By Leith van Onselen Following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) deliberations on Friday at the Parliamentary Committee, covered earlier today by Houses & Holes, more firm indications have emerged that the RBA is seriously considering implementing macro-prudential controls on mortgage lending. Today, the RBA has released a bunch of reports under Freedom of Information [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 12:31
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From NineMSN and the Motley Fool: There’s still every chance that an iron ore price plunge could happen this year, however I doubt that share prices will fall as heavily as they did in 2012 and 2013. Our big miners are much stronger now than in either of the previous two years; debt is lower [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 12:20
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Amid fears of expanding Chinese influence in the Pacific, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has used a changing of the guard in Fiji's military to normalise relations, writes Nic Maclellan |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:45
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By Leith van Onselen I noted last month how Melbourne appears to be climbing up the skyscraper index: a concept developed in 1999 by Andrew Lawrence, research director at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, which showed that the world’s tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns. According to a recent post on the Toronto [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:30
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Why are Coalition women starting to demand affirmative action? New research from EMILY's list shows that it delivers both numbers and results for women, writes EMILY's list's Tanja Kovac |
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The Angle
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:23
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:23
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In the immortal words of some other investment opinion: “don’t buy now”: Here’s another chart from SMH blog capturing the iron ore price versus equities divergence I’ve been pointing to for some time: Plenty of room for catch-up falls. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit + - [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Peter Garcia-Webb
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:20
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Philip Dorling, writing in the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald has discovered nuclear weapons. The article leads in with a hardly flattering photo of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in […] The post Julie Bishop, Queen Boudica and Nuclear Weapons appeared first on Peter Garcia-Webb. |
Peter Garcia-Webb
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:20
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Philip Dorling, writing in the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald has discovered nuclear weapons. The article leads in with a hardly flattering photo of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in […] The post Julie Bishop, Queen Boudica and Nuclear Weapons appeared first on Peter Garcia-Webb. |
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xkcd.com
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:00
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Hoyden About Town
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:58
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Book review of The People Smuggler: the true story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler of Asia'. [This content summary is customised for content-aggregator sites. Click through to http://hoydenabouttown.com to read the full post.] |
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