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Renew Economy Friday, October 3, 2025 - 10:53 Source
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I reported this week on Jobs & Skills Australia’s (JSA) latest study on the international education sector, which admitted that the primary motivation for international students to choose Australia is to obtain work rights and permanent residency. Nearly 70% of international higher education students reported migration as a key factor in their decision to study

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The Tally Room Friday, October 3, 2025 - 09:34 Source

New Zealand will go to the polls next year at their next general election, and the electoral map of New Zealand has been redrawn in advance of that election.

New Zealand’s parliament is elected via mixed member proportional, with a majority of MPs elected to represent single-member electorates using first-past-the-post, and the remainder elected from party lists as top-ups to ensure overall proportionality.

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 3, 2025 - 09:30 Source

The BHP dispute is capturing the headlines, but it’s the steel glut that is driving ferrous market pricing. Even after another accident at Simandou yesterday, costing three lives, the market could not find a bid. The problem is that there is far too much steel, so prices keep falling. This is the perverse fruit of

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 3, 2025 - 09:00 Source

The Market Ear on a bull gone mad. Most shorted mania Most shorted needs a bigger chart soon. Note that we are in overbought territory, but RSI is actually slightly lower than what we saw during the latter part of September. Source: LSEG Workspace MOVE chilling Bond volatility remains “depressed”. Noteworthy is that VIX has

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Renew Economy Friday, October 3, 2025 - 08:22 Source
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This week, we received data on dwelling approvals from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which showed that the Albanese government’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years (i.e., 240,000 dwellings a year) is falling badly behind. In the first 14 months of the National Housing Accord, 218,306 dwellings were approved, 61,694 (22%)

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Renew Economy Friday, October 3, 2025 - 07:58 Source
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Your Democracy Friday, October 3, 2025 - 05:55 Source

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has become the world’s first person to reach a net worth of $500 billion, according to Forbes. Musk’s fortune has been boosted recently by a rally in Tesla shares and soaring valuations of his private firms.

Tesla stock jumped nearly 4% on Wednesday, adding $9.3 billion to Musk’s fortune and pushing it to $500.1 billion, according to the Forbes Billionaires List. Musk’s 12% stake in the carmaker is valued at $191 billion.

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Your Democracy Friday, October 3, 2025 - 05:05 Source

Federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry have more than doubled since 2017 to an estimated $34.8 billion each year, a new analysis from Oil Change International has found. The report’s authors say that amount could soar to hundreds of billions of dollars in the years to come if lawmakers fail to rein in subsidies for controversial carbon capture and hydrogen technologies.

 

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Your Democracy Friday, October 3, 2025 - 04:24 Source

The pirates of Israeli supremacy: The West’s favorite rogue state has done it againThe assault on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza broke all kinds of laws, but then again, laws have never stopped Israel

The long-expected if perfectly criminal has happened again: Israel’s navy has intercepted the Gaza-bound Sumud Flotilla by force, stopping almost 50 boats and, in effect, kidnapping hundreds of their crews and passengers.

 

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MacroBusiness Friday, October 3, 2025 - 00:05 Source

Most of the media’s attention has been on Labor’s First Home Guarantee scheme, which came into effect on Wednesday. Under this scheme, almost all first home buyers can purchase a home with only a 5% deposit, without requiring lenders’ mortgage insurance, as taxpayers will guarantee 15% of the mortgage. Lateral Economics estimated that the 5%

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George Monbiot Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 23:47 Source

Alongside the genocide, the Israeli government is destroying the ecosystems of Gaza, perhaps permanently.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th September 2025

A landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which they are achieved. The first is the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians. The second is rendering the land uninhabitable. Alongside the crime of genocide, another great horror unfolds: ecocide.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 18:02 Source

Inside beach, Portsea Victoria   AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold   WTI     Brent     Australia 200     US S&P 500 UK 100     Japan 225     few problems getting charts again today, sorry. will keep trying

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Cheeseburger Gothic Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 15:39 Source

I enjoy flicking through Substack Notes of a morning, looking for an essay I might enjoy. Occasionally I’ll find something like ‘Light Travels at the Highest Possible Velocity’, a Sherman Alexie story I read one Sunday morning in bed which delayed my getting up by an hour.

It’s one of the best things I’ve read this year, and I found it by accident and read it for free.

Thanks Sherm.

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Renew Economy Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 14:11 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 14:00 Source

Since the ABS started publicly releasing its monthly CPI in late October 2022, it has been a source of controversy and debate. It has been an indicator that has been paid significant heed one month and then absolutely ignored the next, as it no longer produced a result in the desired direction. It has been

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Renew Economy Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 13:25 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 13:00 Source

The Albanese government’s fantastical target of building 1.2 million dwellings over five years is centred on delivering a boom in high-rise towers. I have repeatedly warned that state and federal government plans to blanket our cities with high-rise apartments are unrealistic, would not improve Australian housing affordability, and would degrade liveability. The August dwelling approvals

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THE BLOT REPORT Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 12:49 Source
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Your Democracy Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 12:47 Source

 

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is seeking to claw back decision-making power from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing diplomats familiar with the matter.

Merz, increasingly critical of Brussels, wants Berlin to have greater influence over issues directly affecting EU members, according to one of the sources.

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The Tally Room Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 12:37 Source

A state by-election will be held in the north Queensland seat of Hinchinbrook at some point near the end of this year or early in 2026, following local MP Nick Dametto’s announcement that he will contest the mayoralty of the City of Townsville at a by-election next month.

Hinchinbrook covers the northern outskirts of Townsville and stretches halfway up the coast towards Cairns. Dametto is a member of Katter’s Australian Party and has held the seat since 2017. His current margin is 13.2% against the LNP.

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Renew Economy Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 12:05 Source
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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 12:00 Source

In this week’s podcast, we are unpacking today’s stretched market valuations—why they’re really concentrated in just a handful of the largest stocks, why small and mid-sized companies may actually be trading below average, and how investors should think about growth versus price. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 11:30 Source

In the debate surrounding the viability of individual households servicing ever larger mortgages, the fact that Australia has yet to see large-scale defaults is often cited as evidence that the current level of debt is sustainable. Others use this as evidence to support the argument that we should allow households to incur even higher debt

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Renew Economy Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 11:29 Source
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During the pandemic, Victoria transformed into a police state. Residents were locked down for nine months, allowed to only exercise outside the home for one hour a day. Playgrounds were closed, play equipment was chained-up, and police patrolled the streets with vigour seeking to catch people not wearing their masks or following curfews. Police even

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