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Renew Economy Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 10:36 Source
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MacroBusiness Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 10:21 Source

The weekend’s preliminary auction results from CoreLogic showed that the preliminary clearance rate increased by 4.8% to 75.9%. This week’s preliminary clearance rate was the highest since the week ending February 11 earlier this year. The bounce in clearances was broad-based, with most cities seeing an increase from the Easter long weekend low. Melbourne saw

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 08:30 Source

"It's a pain you can't describe," Raylene Nixon says quietly.

"It's something that you feel deeper than a broken heart - it's pain in your soul."

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Renew Economy Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 06:20 Source
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Your Democracy Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 05:44 Source

On our own behalf: Why journalism is not a conspiracy theory and Multipolar is not a “right-wing” magazine

The RKI protocols that Multipolar sued for have triggered a broad political debate about coming to terms with the Corona period. Some media are now trying to attack our credibility. Multipolar is “right-wing” or “conspiracy-theoretical,” according to SPIEGEL and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A reply.

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Renew Economy Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 22:08 Source
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Your Democracy Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 22:03 Source

The Long Lineage of Russophobia

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 19:15 Source

The utter slaughter, ethnic cleansing and genocide that Israel has carried out over the last six months has, of course, been harrowing to watch. The glory that is instantaneous communication in the digital age has made information, up to and including video of these war crimes, available to anyone with a device in their hands.…

The post The Gaza Genocide and The West: Some Inconvenient Truths appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 18:41 Source

Hey, what if the next time Joe Biden visits the House of Representatives, Marjorie Taylor Greene is wearing a pin that says: “Donald Trump Lucks Out.” Because he so often seems to, doesn’t he?

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The Tally Room Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 17:43 Source

The distribution of preferences concluded today in the final three electorates: Bass, Braddon and Lyons, after Clark and Franklin concluded on Friday.

The final seat result was 14 Liberal, 10 Labor, 5 Greens, 3 Jacqui Lambie Network and 3 independents: David O’Byrne, Kristie Johnston and Craig Garland.

The race in Lyons was no longer in any suspense, and there was little in Bass, where Simon Wood was re-elected by less than 0.12 quotas over fellow Liberal Julie Sladden.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 13:56 Source

By Denis Bright NATO leaders met in Brussels to anticipate more policy confusion after the US Presidential elections on 5 November 2024. From ten major opinion polling institutes, the trendlines on oncomes are quite inconsistent and with wafer thin according to feedback from media monitoring by Microsoft Copilot to anticipate the election outcomes. This raises…

The post Australian Futures: Are Our Global Economic and Strategic Policies Consistent? appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Renew Economy Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 13:43 Source
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Your Democracy Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 10:19 Source

NATO nations can only forestall an inevitable loss to Russian forces in Ukraine by deploying their troops to the former Soviet republic, a former adviser to the US military has claimed.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 09:02 Source

A “colossal” increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza is needed immediately to stop children from dying needlessly, restore dignity and ease psychological suffering, warns child rights NGO Plan International. This Sunday (7 April) will mark six months since Israel launched its military offensive in response to the 7 October attack by an armed Palestinian group,…

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 08:50 Source

Pampered hernia patient Netanyahu is ultimately responsible for the destruction of more of the planet’s hospitals than anyone since the bombing of Hamburg during the Second World War.

Normally, one would feel at least some, if not in fact quite a lot, of sympathy, for a gentleman of a certain age who has to go to hospital to have a hernia operation.

 

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 08:49 Source

By Bert Hetebry Truth be told, we really would like other people to be a little more like we are. We have a seemingly inherent bias for others to be like us; to think as we do, to live as we do, to behave as we do, to believe what we believe.   We really…

The post I need the right to discriminate! appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 08:00 Source

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New Politics Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 07:55 Source

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MacroBusiness Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 07:00 Source

CBA senior economist Belinda Allen has written a nice report on this week’s dwelling approvals data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Allen notes that housing supply is lagging way behind both the Albanese government’s housing targets and immigration-driven demand. Higher interest rates, labour shortages, and elevated material costs continue to weigh on housing

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Cheeseburger Gothic Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 06:05 Source

There’s a Japanese place down the hill from us that I eat at only occasionally because there’s another Japanese place even closer that’s cheaper. But it was closed over the Easter weekend, so I went to the spendy place and decided I’d have something other than sushi or sashimi (or chicken katsu curry).

Ended up ordering this bad boy. Some sort of miso rice with wagyu.

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 05:42 Source

A pledge by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Ukraine will become a member of NATO looks like a scene from a movie about a nuclear apocalypse, entrepreneur Elon Musk believes.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 00:05 Source

International Reads: More Gen Z are choosing trade schools over college to become welders and carpenters because ‘it’s a straight path to a six-figure job’ – Fortune China is reaching technology parity with the US despite western technology and economic sanctions – East Wind The US economy is flashing a recession warning that has only

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Your Democracy Friday, April 5, 2024 - 20:48 Source

At last year’s Conservative party conference, prime minister Rishi Sunak declared the UK government planned to increase, year by year, the legal age of smoking to achieve a “smoke-free generation”.

The announcement gave the impression the prime minister was taking on Big Tobacco. 

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The Tally Room Friday, April 5, 2024 - 19:06 Source

The count is nearing the end, with Clark and Franklin finishing their count today.

Quite a few candidates reached quotas today, with most of the unclear races now resolved.

It now looks likely that Craig Garland will defeat Liberal Giovanna Simpson for the final seat in Braddon, leaving the government with just 14 seats.

It also seems clear that Simon Wood will defeat Julie Sladden for the third Liberal seat in Bass, with no more Liberal votes to be distributed.

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MacroBusiness Friday, April 5, 2024 - 16:30 Source

A sea of red across Asian share markets today due to the sharp reversal on Wall Street overnight as markets rebalancing their risks around the Federal Reserve rate cut agenda, which seems to keep getting pushed back. Not a good position to be in coming into tonight’s US jobs report with the USD still looking

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Renew Economy Friday, April 5, 2024 - 14:49 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, April 5, 2024 - 13:30 Source

Independent economist, Tony Alexander, discusses the recent weak economic data pervading New Zealand and how it increases the chances of “a series of quick interest rate cuts” later in the year. The case for a quick series of interest rate cuts to occur and to commence before the end of this year was strengthened right

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Your Democracy Friday, April 5, 2024 - 13:22 Source

BRUSSELS — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's top team is piling the pressure on her to explain the selection of an EU business envoy from the German political group of which she's a member.

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MacroBusiness Friday, April 5, 2024 - 13:08 Source

The Pilbara killer will harm nothing but the iron ore price: Rio Tinto chairman Dominic Barton has signalled the miner will set targets for the preservation of nature and biodiversity to bring international sustainability standards to projects in developing nations. Rio’s sustainability credentials have been questioned this week by big European investors who are considering

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MacroBusiness Friday, April 5, 2024 - 13:00 Source

It was the case that if you used polyethylene, then you would go to Qenos. But no more: The federal opposition has slammed the Albanese government’s lack of action on gas prices as major plastics manufacturer Qenos prepares to shut up shop in Victoria and NSW. Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien said Labor’s focus on

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