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Before you wish congratulations to Anthony and Jodie on their engagement, let me alert you to the fact that it’s only a distraction! I know this because I’ve been reading people’s comments on social media. Apparently a number of people who were concerned about taxpayers being charged for Jodie Haydon’s travel on the grounds that…

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How do we survive as a nation with an iMSM that is so suicidally dumb? Origin Energy boss Frank Calabria says the energy giant’s only power station in Victoria, a gas-fired peaking plant, is running at full capacity to help stabilise the grid as thousands of the company’s customers remain without power. “We have a

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Wednesday, February 14, turned out to be an unanticipated Happy Valentine’s Day for Julian Assange supporters. The Australian House of Representatives passed a motion introduced by Tasmanian Independent, Andrew Wilkie on behalf of the Parliamentary Friends of Julian Assange, urging the US and the UK to bring their prosecution of Julian Assange to a close, and allow him to return to his family and home in Australia.

Markets and economists have a tendency to look backwards and on the bright side. This is usually a good idea. An economy is not an easy thing to knock off course.  But sometimes it happens. Today is one of those times.  The RBA hiked in November and the economy hit a brick wall in both

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Some top tips on how to electrify your home and make it more energy efficient

Over the last few years, the Australian and UK Labor/Labour[1] parties, have followed strikingly parallel paths.

I have focused my analysis of the upcoming Queensland council elections on the City of Brisbane for a number of reasons. It is the most populous council in Australia, but it also has elections that are strongly partisan, with Labor, the LNP and the Greens running in every ward and holding all but one ward.

The developers of a solar thermal powered methanol production facility that will supply green fuel for shipping and aviation have bedded down $A40 million in funding.

‘Tis relentless and has a very long way to run. Morgan Stanley with more. Major Deterioration in 4Q23 Earnings Pre-AnnouncementsOur China Equity Strategy team’s quarterly tracker of earnings pre-announcements showed that 4Q23 earnings alerts have deteriorated sharply. As of February 5, 34% of MSCI China companies issued alerts, and the pre-announcements (by number of companies)

Australia’s former universities turned Third World corporate parasites are pulling sharp u-turn: Universities and private colleges have cancelled scores of international student enrolment offers as institutions rush to protect their risk ratings following the federal government’s visa crackdown. Some education providers believe they’re being unfairly impacted by the government’s migration reforms which aim to slash

February has turned out to be another shocker for Australia’s home-building industry, which faces an uphill battle supplying homes for Australia’s ballooning population. Only 162,200 dwellings were approved for construction in the 2023 calendar year. This was the lowest annual result since March 2013, below the historical average, and some 78,000 lower than the Albanese

Chicken Chamlers is at it again. This time on the WA GST deal: At $US128 a tonne, WA’s share of GST would have stayed around the 30¢ per person mark. But as Morrison’s plan meant its share had to increase, billions and billions more had to be tumbled into the GST pot to ensure all

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Fresh from the ABS. In seasonally adjusted terms, in January 2024: unemployment rate increased to 4.1%. participation rate remained at 66.8%. employment increased to 14,201,300. employment to population ratio decreased to 64.1%. underemployment rate increased to 6.6%. monthly hours worked decreased to 1,871 million. full-time employment increased by 11,100 to 9,797,800 people. part-time employment decreased by 10,600 to 4,403,500