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In the US, the freshly installed administration of President Donald Trump is attempting to drastically reshape science. Here we focus on interventions that are relevant to epidemiology and public health.

These include: (i) restricting or eliminating access to health data; (ii) dictating what kinds of research can be conducted; (iii) cutting ties with international health bodies; and (iv) firing early-career researchers.

Out with the new and in with the newer at the Lunatic RBA. Somebody has to be sacked. The Lunatic RBA has starved the pig for market day. There is no excuse for it. It’s been obvious for six months that inflation is beaten, yet it refused to budge. Now, we have a private-sector economy

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From one election to the next, the swings back and forth of Australian politics can look cyclical – that things start and end in the same place. But when you widen the time frame, things look different. Over time, some place move from being safe seats to marginal seats, or even from being safe seats for one major party to the other major party.

Another ugly night on Wall Street that started out as a lovely time had by all as equity markets across both sides of the Atlantic rebounded on hope that everything is going to be ok. But that was a lie as the Fanta Fuhrer again spoilt the party after first suggesting a delay in new

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A joint federal-state funding deal will use solar, efficiency upgrades and electrification to slash energy costs for social housing homes.

Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?

“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”

Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.

DXY is hanging in there. AUD is not. As lead boots turn to concrete shoes. Commodities are the screaming meteor of death. Landing on big miners. EM lol. The junk skunk! Uh oh, Treasuries are selling with everything else…hello, Liz Truss moment. Stocks whoa. Here is your new world order chart with Trump’s 50% increase

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The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has said that "boys will be boys" after Elon Musk took to X to call Peter Navarro, a long-time aide to Donald Trump, a "moron" who is "dumber than a sack of bricks."

Tom Elliott from Radio 3AW outlined multiple reasons why he believes Australian home prices will boom amid the fallout from the Trump administration’s trade war. First, Elliott argued that the share market rout is likely to see a flight to the perceived safe haven of property. “When the share market gets the wobbles as it

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Morrison intervened in Australia Post awarding 4 watches but did absolutely nothing to stop Communist China taking over the military port of Darwin for an entire century. 

The Sunshine State's extraordinary story of accelerating renewables transition, and its benefits for the economy, cost of living, jobs and climate is now at risk.