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From Bloxo yesterday: …reading the economy recently has also required an expert eye. This is because many of the indicators we typically look at have been affected by the weather, or measurement issues, or both. Cyclone Debbie, which struck Queensland in late March, and unusually wet weather on the eastern seaboard, including the wettest March

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Please explain: Senator Hanson has called for limits to foreign non-resident home ownership in Australia and will be raising the issue today, on the floor of the Senate. According to Senator Hanson the shortage of affordable housing available for Australians can be addressed by limiting foreign non-residents to one new property and enforcing laws to

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That burying your head in the sand strategy ain’t working, via the AFR: Victorian CPAs are “highly likely” to lose their protection from multi-million-dollar malpractice lawsuits because their professional representative body, CPA Australia, will not have a new scheme approved by the government regulator before the current arrangement ends. CPA Australia, which has seen most

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Iron ore price charts for June 21, 2017: Tianjin benchmark added $1 to $55.40. Paper took off overnight. Coking coal too. Steel is stuck. The bear market rally that has been trying and failing for two weeks finally gained a little traction. My guess is the trigger is the new liquidity management being undertaken by

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The federal government is in a spot of legal bother. This may seem like the old cliché about the builder with the unfinished home renovation. But for tradies, the explanation is obvious. Work for paying customers is prioritised because it puts food on the table. The same explanation is not available to a government awash with lawyers, because its elected representatives are generously remunerated by the Australian public.

Text, video and audio of Senator Lucy Gichuhi's maiden speech to the Senate.

By Jane Salmon In suggesting that ‘autistic kids should be removed from mainstream classes,’ Pauline Hanson has reached a new low. The view Hanson reflects is one of ignorant prejudice, scarcity and austerity. Yep, my tackers with ASD are sometimes disruptive or especially emotional. They have painful struggles. This is easing with time, skill, therapy…

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DeepStack: expert-level artificial intelligence wins poker games... Playing games is for artificial intelligence to win. Most games are 100 predictable. One only needs to play the correct moves, including Chess and Backgammon. Machines win Chess all the time. 

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By Leith van Onselen WA Premier, Mark McGowan, has signaled that unlike his federal Labor counterpart, Bill Shorten, he actually cares about his workers. With WA unemployment and underemployment sky high: McGowan in March wrote to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to remove Perth from the Regional Sponsorship Migration Scheme, thus effectively preventing a pathway for

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Turnbull's pursuit of "baseload dispatchable" power has all the hallmarks of the Trump administration's campaign against renewables. But data shows that countries with lots of wind and solar have better energy security.

Major strategic partnership opens the possibility of integrating Vivid Technology and Honeywell products to create complete smart buildings solutions.

By Leith van Onselen The Housing Industry Association (HIA) has released its latest Housing Outlook, which forecasts a steady decline in dwelling starts over the next three years, with renovation activity also forecast to peak before falling: “The housing boom was not consistent across Australia and now with NSW and Victoria cooling, all indicators are

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Sunny and windy Sunday afternoon in the U.K. sees carbon intensity power production level fall below 100g of CO2 per kWh for first time ever, gifting country’s energy market glimpse into future power generation mix.