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The Business Council of Australia (BCA) is calling for Sydney’s Aerotropolis and Melbourne’s Fishermens Bend to be covered by a designated area migration agreement (DAMA). DAMAs represent a formal agreement between the federal government and a regional, state or territory authority that gives easier access to overseas workers than the standard skilled migration program. However,

The idiot MSM is today replete with ScoMo bashing: Albanese said people in government are searching for documents that saw Scott Morrison sworn in secretly to various ministry portfolios, but said he won’t speculate yet on what implications these unprecedented arrangements may have on legal decisions made by the former government. The new PM told

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Max Opray, Schwartz Media’s morning editor, has neatly summed up the revelations that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly gave himself joint responsibility for the health, finance and resources ministries, in contravention of the Westminster democratic system of government: The Albanese government has ordered a search for documents authorising former prime minister Scott Morrison to

The ferrous complex was pasted on August 15, 2022: The futures contracts rolled forward so some of the damage is duration. This followed the terrible China data which was reinforced by the latest CISA output numbers running at 2018 levels: There’s worse to come as property starts keep crashing: However, there is an offset. As

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Pantheon kicks us off with an analysis of Chinese July data: China: Industrial production growth slowed to 3.8% y/y in July, from 3.9% in June.  Consensus was 4.3%. China: Retail sales growth slowed to 2.7% y/y in July, from 3.1% in June.  Consensus was 4.9%. China: FAI growth fell to 5.7% ytd y/y in July,

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DXY bounced hard last night: AUD was slain: All commodities and EMs were trashed: Treasuries were bid: Stocks only go up: Westpac has the wrap: Event Wrap US homebuilder confidence (NAHB) fell to 49 (est. 54, prior 55) – the lowest since May 2020. The report noted builder confidence continues to be affected by the FOMC’s rate

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The Ukrainian military has not been able to pull off its promised counteroffensive, and Russian forces are now likely to take over the whole of Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a former adviser to the secretary of defense in the Trump administration, has said.

A lot of analysis of the recent federal election used aggregate data and made assumptions about individual voting trends, but now we have some data that can actually answer these questions. Ben is joined in this episode by Shaun Ratcliff from YouGov to discuss the Australian Cooperative Election Survey, which allows analysts to make conclusions about individual voting trends.

We discuss trends in terms of income, wealth, gender, age, LGBTQI+ voters and cultural diversity.

Much like Sydney’s, Melbourne house price losses have accelerated, with values down 3.9% from their peak: Melbourne dwelling values started falling sharply after the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) initial interest rate rise on 3 May. Since that first hike, Melbourne’s dwelling values have plummeted by 3.7%. Alongside even heavier falls across Sydney (-5.6%), these

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The United States and its allies have spent years and billions of dollars providing weapons assistance and training support for Kiev, with aid ramped up dramatically since the escalation of the long-embering crisis in February.

Well, we all remember how upset Jenny was with Grace Tame’s bad manners when she and Scott invited her to one of their several homes and she didn’t even smile after the Prime Minister whistled her over to be in the photograph with them. Anyway, while a significant minority of people were upset with what…

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Have you noticed the latest coming out of Eastern Europe—the Estonians, the Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Czechs, and let us not forget the Ukrainians? Suddenly everyone thinks it is a good idea to begin shutting Russians, as in all Russians, out of Europe. That’s it: No more Russians in Europe because…because they are Russian. End of story, as some people like to say.