Your Democracy
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 05:35
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Israel’s strikes against Iran amount to US military action despite official denials from Washington, US Senator Ted Cruz has suggested. Tehran has accused America of complicity in Israel’s attacks on its nuclear infrastructure. |
Renew Economy
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 05:11
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Your Democracy
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 04:57
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned Israel’s aggression in Gaza and ongoing attacks on Iran, comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. |
THE BLOT REPORT
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 00:40
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I know that not a huge proportion of Americans know what is going on beyond the borders of the US, and this was brought home to me recently, when I was reading something about the massive No Kings protests in myriad cities and town across the US. One source I read estimated that about 13 million people demonstrated. All this happened while Trump held his military parade in honour of his own birthday, at which something like a few thousand people showed up to watch, some of whom were even there to protest against Trump, or at least to separate the 250th anniversary of the army’s creation from Trump’s 79th birthday. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 00:05
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The Rudd/Gillard Labor government made the disastrous decision in the early 2010s to authorise LNG exports from Gladstone, Queensland, without forcing gas producers to first serve the domestic market. As a result of this policy blunder, East Coast Australia became the only gas exporting jurisdiction in the world without a domestic gas reservation policy. We The post How Australians were robbed of their own gas appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 17:42
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The Tally Room
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 17:10
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It has barely been two weeks since the no confidence motion passed, and just over a week since the Tasmanian state election has been called, but the candidates are coming out of the woodwork very quickly. I have now updated my election guide to feature those candidates announced so far. The Liberal Party and Labor have now announced a full slate of 35 candidates. The Liberals finished announcing their ticket this afternoon, when they announced their last four candidates for Clark. |
Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 16:22
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MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 16:00
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The Israel-Iran war continues to dominate risk markets as the TACO-in-Chief threatens to join in with bunker busters over the weekend to eliminate the Iranian nuclear facilities. The USD is gaining strength against most of the undollars with the Australian dollar losing ground on a relatively weak unemployment today, heading back below the 65 cent The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
George Monbiot
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 15:45
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Protection should be the default state of the oceans. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th June 2025 I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “marine protected areas” (MPAs). At last, some solid research on seabed carbon and the vast releases caused by the trawlers ploughing it up. But still I feel that almost everyone is missing the point. |
Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 14:16
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Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 14:13
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Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 14:02
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Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:42
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Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:32
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MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:30
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Liberal MP Garth Hamilton has called for sweeping changes to the tax system, arguing that it needs to be inclusive and support modern families. His suggestions for reform include introducing lifetime deductions on tax rates for mothers, in recognition of the fact that they often have lower salaries when they return to the workforce. Hamilton The post Liberal MP fails on tax reform appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:28
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MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:24
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ANZ with report. Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions declined 1.2% in the year ending March 2025, according to the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory. This follows a flat annual result over the year to December 2024. Excluding the land use, land use change and forestry4 (LULUCF) sector, annual emissions fell 1.0% in the year to March The post Aussie carbon emissons fall, sort of… appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 13:00
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The blueprint for how to fix Australia’s tax system was spelled out 15 years ago by the Henry Tax Review. Unfortunately, both sides of government ignored its recommendations. Fast forward to today, and the federal budget is facing a decade of budget deficits amid the unwinding of commodity prices, the ageing population, and increasing spending The post How Jim Chalmers should tackle reform appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 12:30
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The cartel is back, baby. And so are ludicrous electricity prices. Bowen is the great fiddler. The Australian. The Albanese government’s planned overhaul of household electricity price caps could put small energy retailers surviving on razor-thin profit margins out of business. Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen confirmed the government would review the Default Market Offer The post Bowen fiddles while energy burns appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:56
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the May labour force report, which reported a steady unemployment rate of 4.1% despite the loss of 2,500 jobs. The unemployment remained steady due to the 0.1% fall in the labour force participation rate. However, despite the loss of jobs, monthly hours worked jumped by 1.3% in The post Australia’s job market is weaker than it looks appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:30
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The Market Ear on a rapidly exhausting market. Shorts stopped out Recent equity strength has been fueled by underweight positioning and a brutal short squeeze. But signs of relief are emerging — UBS reports the strongest hedge fund deleveraging since March, with sharp short covering. Nasdaq short interest is now in the 25th percentile, showing just The post Stocks hit the ceiling appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:01
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IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has confirmed that his agency has no firm evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, debunking the justification used by Israel to launch its aggression last week. Sputnik asked commentators including a renowned Iraq War whistleblower to weigh in why Israel and Washington neocons are so eager to beat the drums of war. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 11:00
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Labor’s Powering Australia Plan claimed that it would cut NEM wholesale power rates by $11 per MWh (from $62 to $51) by 2025. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised RepuTex Energy’s analysis as “the most comprehensive modelling ever done for any policy by any opposition in Australia’s history since Federation”. Albanese also regularly claimed that Labor The post Labor drowns in energy lies appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 10:30
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DXY went nowhere. AUD recovered some. Lead boots are going sideways. Oil short? Metals bifurcating. Biug miner bear one for the ages. EM meh. Junk hasn’t budged. Long end sort of OK. Stocks nothing burger. Here are the Fed headlines. *FED HOLDS BENCHMARK RATE IN 4.25%-4.5% TARGET RANGE *FOMC MEDIAN FORECAST STILL SHOWS 50 BPS The post Australian dollar resilience returns appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 10:06
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MacroBusiness
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 10:00
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Australia’s annual R&D spending has also fallen to only 1.68% of GDP, well below the OECD average (3%) and the lowest among developed nations. As a result, the Albanese government has launched a review into Australia’s R&D, which is analysed below by independent commentator and MB Subscriber, Stephen Saunders. By Stephen Saunders Thus far, Australia’s The post Australia is a R&D wasteland appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
The Tally Room
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 09:15
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I’ve previously posted a number of times before about the dataset I have compiled of election results since 2004, adjusted for 2025 electoral boundaries. Most recently, prior to the election, I specifically did a comparison of the 2007 and 2022 electoral map: two elections with similar two-party-preferred votes and a similar number of seats with a two-party-preferred majority for each major party. |
Renew Economy
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 09:15
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Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 09:01
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