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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.] |
Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:50
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Troy Bramston this morning said Howard was thought our best Prime Minister by 39 percent, Abbott and Fraser by 3. This, adding up to 45 percent, is unsurprising, as it equals the number, disastrously low, of older Australians now pleased by the Coalition, or willing to live with it. What surprises is that all thousand respondents omitted Menzies, though eleven million of us recall his rule, in even this mere online poll of only 1007 people. People under fifty perhaps, that is 40 percent of those available and compos mentis, might explain this vast apparent act of national forgetting. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:47
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From the AFR: Tony Abbott is a conservative “hardliner” who Republicans in the United States can learn from to win elections, potential Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has told the party’s faithful. Mr Santorum, who has indicated he will probably run for President in 2016, invoked Mr Abbott’s name and embraced his leadership style as an [...] [[ 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 - 10:41
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The Immigration Department's new code gives departmental officers the power to send asylum seekers in Australia to Manus for spitting or 'spreading rumours', write Elyse Methven and Anthea Vogl |
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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:41
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The Immigration Department's new code gives departmental officers the power to send asylum seekers in Australia to Manus for spitting or 'spreading rumours', write Elyse Methven and Anthea Vogl |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:32
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From the FT today: Seth Klarman, the publicity shy head of the $27bn Baupost Group whose investment opinions have attracted a near cult-like following, said that investors were underplaying risk and were not prepared for an end to central banks reversing a five-year experiment in ultra-loose money. …“On almost any metric, the US equity market [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Political Owl
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:28
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The Tally Room
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 09:30
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John Quiggin
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 09:22
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It’s time for another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 09:11
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By Leith van Onselen The Australian newspaper today reports that a new poll has ranked John Howard as the best Australian Prime Minister of the past 40 years: The poll, conducted last week by Essential Research and provided exclusively to The Australian, shows that 39 per cent of voters ranked Mr Howard, the Liberal prime [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 07:44
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 07:43
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James Waites’ memorial service in the Wharf Bar, the best I’ve experienced, climaxed with Paul Capsis, who seemed a kind of divinity, singing xxxx. I wasn’t aware till I arrived (by fire escape, an aged throng left angrily on the street, locked out till 3 by the increasingly insane STC bureaucracy) that he had walked into the sea. He did not wish to be a burden and had, of course (of course), no self-esteem, and knew not how much he was loved. |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 06:43
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Is it wrong to ask this, or should we not now abandon our pursuit of the wreckage of MH370? Should we not, now, be asking how bombs got through security at Kualar Lumpur airport, and if there is a kind of explosive that can do this? It might be helpful, too, if a motive is hypothesised. Why would suiciding bombers not leave on the internet a message describing their quest, asserting their cause, the cause they bravely, crazily chose to die for? I myself am starting to think it wasn’t a bomb at all. Stolen passports assist illegal immigrants into western cities all the time. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 01:20
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The first batch of Chinese February data was out over the weekend and showed some staggering shifts. Exports collapsed 18.1% year on year as Lunar New Year distorted data and last year’s export invoicing scams offered a high base. In month on month terms it was down 34%! Even so, when averaging January and February [...] [[ 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 - 01:19
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The Friday default of a tiny corporate bond in China appears to have triggered larger ripples for commodity markets. From the FT: Copper for delivery in three months on the London Metal Exchange fell by as much as 3.7 per cent to $6,785 a tonne. Other base metals were also under pressure. Three-month nickel, which [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 01:18
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Find below the iron ore charts for March 7, 2014: In paper markets, 12 month swaps smashed any support level and are in free-fall. Dalian futures opened limit-down before rallying to still sharp losses. Rebar futures did likewise. In physical markets, iron ore is eyeing mid-last year’s low of $110.4o and will probably go through [...] [[ 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 - 01:16
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By Leith van Onselen The AFR has today called on the Government to introduce greater means testing of the Aged Pension, whose benefits are increasingly flowing to retirees that “live in big houses, drive new cars, and holiday in Europe”: …even though many public policy experts and even some pensioners say the rules for the [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 01:15
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The inexorable logic of macroprudential is pushing the RBA and APRA forward. When asked on Friday at the Parliamentary Committee about it, Capt’ Glenn replied: “I said somewhere a few months ago that we had thought about this, we had had some preliminary discussions with APRA, which we had, and we promptly had a flood [...] [[ 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 - 01:14
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By Leith van Onselen New modelling by the Productivity Commission estimates that the closure of Australia’s car industry will cost up to 39,000 jobs, mostly in Victoria and South Australia. From The Guardian: The commission’s modelling of the worst case scenario after the end of production by Ford, GM Holden and Toyota in the period [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 01:10
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As Canada and the UK move to restrict the affluent capital fleeing the developing world, largely because it is blowing up their housing markets, Australia will welcome it with open arms. The Abbott government is set to expand Australia significant investment visa program. It processed 116 approvals in the past year and another 486 are pending: The [...] [[ 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 - 01:10
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As Canada and the UK move to restrict the affluent capital fleeing the developing world, largely because it is blowing up their housing markets, Australia will welcome it with open arms. The Abbott government is set to expand Australia significant investment visa program. It processed 116 approvals in the past year and another 486 are pending: [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 01:09
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Click to view RP Data’s latest weekly housing market update, which provides a useful snapshot of the housing market as at 8 March 2014. This week’s report includes: Latest weekly dwelling value results; Auction results & clearance rates; Latest median house & unit prices; Average time on market & vendor discounts; Mortgage market activity; and New [...] [[ 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 - 01:09
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Click to view RP Data’s latest weekly housing market update, which provides a useful snapshot of the housing market as at 8 March 2014. This week’s report includes: Latest weekly dwelling value results; Auction results & clearance rates; Latest median house & unit prices; Average time on market & vendor discounts; Mortgage market activity; and New [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 01:09
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By Leith van Onselen Auction results were mixed over the weekend, with Sydney’s clearance rate firming and Melbourne’s cooling, although the latter was impacted by the Labour Day long weekend. According to RP Data, the weighted average auction clearance rate fell to 70.4% from 72.8% the week before, driven by a big fall in Melbourne [...] [[ 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 - 01:08
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By Leith van Onselen Fairfax ran a detailed article over the weekend lamenting the high cost of childcare, which is becoming a growing burden for both the federal government and Australian families: …every day… the need for parents to find and turn up to work collides with the reality of the Australian childcare sector’s costs and limitations… According [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 01:06
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From The Australian: The mining tax that was originally forecast to produce $4 billion in revenue this financial year has raised just $232 million…an analysis by The Weekend Australian shows the tax has failed to raise revenue even though the profits of the three big iron ore miners soared by 81 per cent and the price [...] [[ 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 - 01:05
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We commonly use stories to teach new ideas, but all too often end up taking the wrong lessons from them. My favourite example is the Coase theorem. Economics textbooks describe theorem as saying that it doesn’t matter where you place the liability for pollution, because in a world of zero transaction costs the right to pollute [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 01:03
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For those with a memory, it was the positive findings of a study by the macro consultancy NERA for the US Department of Energy that opened the way for the US entry into global LNG markets. That study has been updated: This report is an update to the study of the macroeconomic impacts of liquefied natural [...] [[ 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 - 01:00
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Global Macro / Markets: George Soros blasts ’parasite’ banks - The Telegraph Banks are a proxy for credit bubble fears - Financial Times EM’s dark debt squeeze exposure - Financial Times Emerging World Poses More Danger Than in 1990s - Bloomberg How to Avoid Another Global Financial Crisis - American.com North America: Is Rising Housing Wealth Great News for Spending? - [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
North Coast Voices
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 00:16
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