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Hoyden About Town Monday, March 7, 2022 - 09:37 Source

Sydney Harbour Bridge span is hardly visible through raindrops on a window.Rainy Sydney in 2011, much the same now

In Sydney right now anyway. How about where you are, everybody?

I hope all hoydens and hoyden-adjacent folks are safe and sound during the latest manifestations of the climate emergency.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 18:06 Source

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Peter Martin Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 23:19 Source

We are about to find out whether we’ll lose a tax break worth up to $1,080 a year.

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Peter Martin Monday, February 21, 2022 - 23:11 Source

Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Australia’s leading economists have overwhelmingly endorsed a return to the highest immigration intake on record, saying Australia should aim for at least 190,000 migrants per year as it opens its borders, up from the target of 160,000 per year set ahead of COVID.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, February 16, 2022 - 21:23 Source

If you told someone a year ago unemployment was about to dive below 5%, to just above 4%, they wouldn’t have believed you.

If that person was an expert, and you said it would happen despite a Delta outbreak and lockdowns in our two biggest states, they might have said you had little idea of how the economy worked.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 21:16 Source

Sometimes the best things you can do are invisible.

Such as fighting cholera by ensuring drinking water wasn’t contaminated by sewage, as happened in London in the 1840s.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, February 2, 2022 - 23:03 Source

What’s the boldest thing the Morrison government could do in next month’s budget?

It would be to forecast an unemployment rate below 4% (a rate of three-point-something), then to pledge to go further, to two-point-something.

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