Your Democracy
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 07:24
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Protesters in Venice are claiming an "enormous victory" after US tech billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wedding guests were forced to "run away" from the city centre, moving their main celebration to another location. The venues for the three-day party to mark the wedding of one of the world's richest men to TV presenter Lauren Sanchez were never officially revealed. |
Your Democracy
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 05:43
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We talk glibly about our [Australia's] future in Asia, but we are stuck in a US and UK media cul de sac. The Washington consensus and our legacy media frames and conditions our thinking and actions. It promotes fear of Asia, the yellow peril. An updated post from August 23, 2021
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Your Democracy
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 05:34
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Anyone with any knowledge of Iran's history and culture will know that it will not be bribed or bullied into doing what the West wants. It has no reason to trust Western promises, and having endured the suffering of the Iran-Iraq War, is unlikely to buckle under any pressure, military or economic, that the West would be prepared to impose. |
Your Democracy
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 04:51
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Forget the fog of war. Even in war, and sometimes especially in war, some things are exceedingly clear. Regarding the so-called ‘Hamas-Israel War’, for instance, it is obvious that in reality it is not a war at all but a genocide, namely the Gaza Genocide, carried out by Israel against the Palestinians whose unbroken resistance will be the stuff of legends, and of history too.
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Your Democracy
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 04:24
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Screenwriters in Hollywood who “say they are Jewish” have been planting pro-war narratives about Iran in mainstream entertainment for more than a decade, Wikileaks has claimed. Israel launched airstrikes on Iran earlier this month, claiming Tehran was close to creating a nuclear weapon. Over the weekend, the US also directly joined the conflict by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities. |
MacroBusiness
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 00:05
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During the Albanese government’s first term, one of the main policy focuses was on public housing. Throughout much of the second half of the government’s first term, various public housing-related policies were major bones of contention, most notably the Housing Australia Future Fund or HAFF. The HAFF provided the Albanese government with a striking headline The post Albo’s public housing train wreck appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 18:08
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THE BLOT REPORT
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 17:25
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In 1992, I went to Russia and Kazakhstan on what was supposed to be an Australia-USSR science agreement exchange program visit (the USSR had ceased to exist at this time, so the Australian government paid for the whole trip). A Russian researcher had come to Australia to work with one of my colleagues and me in 1990. We had moved into a new house a week before I hopped on the plane to Moscow, leaving behind my partner and our two little boys aged 6 and 3. I took a couple of books to read in what I suspected would be a fair bit of down-time. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 16:30
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Risk markets are buying the rumour, selling the fact with stocks and undollars soaring higher while oil and the USD is slammed lower on the possibility of a “ceasefire” in the Middle East. Lost among this turmoil are the big deals happening in Europe between the EU, Canada and Greenland as the pivot away from The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
The Tally Room
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 15:05
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Late on Monday, the AEC transitioned the election results website to its final archive form. You can now find the results at results.aec.gov.au, and the previous link no longer works. There is probably enough fresh data to fuel a whole week of blog posts. I am planning to return to the question of the national 2PP and 2PP preference flows by party, as well as some deeper analysis of the 3CP trends across the country. For this post, I am going to focus on close races, in particular those involving independents against the major parties. |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 14:54
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 14:52
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 14:37
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 14:00
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Major LNG exporters Qatar and the United Arab Emirates rely on passage through the Strait of Hormuz to supply Asian markets. However, Iran has threatened to block the strait, prompting concerns about a possible spike in LNG prices, along with supply worries. However, Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King has sought to assure domestic gas users The post Labor cannot be trusted on gas appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 13:30
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The federal government has been advised by eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant to scrap YouTube’s exemption from laws banning people under the age of 16 from using social media, which are scheduled to take effect in December. Former communications minister Michele Rowland had cited YouTube’s educational content as one of the justifications for exempting it The post It’s time to end the nanny state appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 13:00
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Net overseas migration is undoubtedly the most significant driver of housing demand in Australia. Australia’s population grew by 445,900 in 2024 (equivalent to a Canberra), driven by net overseas migration of 340,600. Net overseas migration remained above the pre-pandemic peak of 315,700 in Q4 2008, accounting for 76% of total population growth. Another overlooked factor |
John Quiggin
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 12:39
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Pro-natalism (the idea that people, or rather, women, should have more babies than they choose to do at present) has become an established orthodoxy,[1]. The central claim is that, unless something changes soon, human populations both global and national, are going to decline rapidly, with a lot of negative consequences. This is simply not true, on any plausible assumptions about fertility[2] |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 12:30
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S&P with the report. Flash Australia PMI Composite Output Index(1): 51.2 (May: 50.5). 3-month high. Flash Australia Services PMI Business Activity Index(2): 51.3 (May: 50.6). 3-month high. Flash Australia Manufacturing Output Index(3): 50.4 (May: 49.8). 2-month high. Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI (4): 51.0 (May: 51.0). Growth in new work was notably driven by domestic clients |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 12:26
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Renew Economy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 12:05
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 12:00
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Policymakers want Australians to live in shoebox apartments to alleviate the structural undersupply of housing in our major cities and accommodate endless population growth. Their mandate contradicts the views of Australians, who prefer to live in detached homes. In May, the average price premium for a detached property in Australia’s major cities was 174%, according |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 11:59
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Your Democracy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 11:42
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A Trump official tells The Grayzone that Israel’s Mossad is using CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US CENTCOM’s Gen. Michael Kurilla to influence Trump with cooked intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program. Inside the White House, dissenters have been isolated, setting the stage for a regime change war that could cost American lives. Listen to/watch Max Blumenthal read this article here. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 11:30
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In the debate surrounding the so-called “Mortgage Cliff” and the impact of inflation and higher interest rates on households, the possibility of a strong rise in mortgage arrears has been written off in many quarters. Yet with the release of the latest Residential Mortgage Backed Security (RMBS) data from ratings agency Fitch, that is exactly The post Mortgages arrears surge to decade highs appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 11:00
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In a recent speech to the Queensland Parliament, Mermaid Beach Liberal Party MP Ray Stevens called for the return of vagrancy laws in order to prosecute the “presumably homeless people” increasingly cropping up in his electorate in “some of the most sought after locations anyone could wish for—absolute beachfront”. In a vacuum, one can empathise The post Does Australia need a war between the states and Albo? appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 10:30
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Victoria’s economy has become a national disaster. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) annual state accounts for 2023-24 revealed that Victoria’s per capita GDP fell by 1.2% annually and has only increased by 10.4% since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. Victoria’s growth compares poorly against the 1.0% national decline in per capita GDP in The post Victoria’s economy is gravely ill appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 10:21
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Twenty-one months into its genocide of the Palestinian people, Israel has extended its attacks to Iran, with the USA collaborating. Back in Oz, governments look away. Emma Thomas with the latest from the NSW antisemitism inquiry.
US joins Israel bombing Iran, genocide proceeds, Australia debates antisemitismby Emma Thomas
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 10:00
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The ferrous complex is hardly inspiring confidence. Steel output cuts should eventually force more price weakness upstream to iron ore. Meanwhile, Goldman has finally cottoned on to the structural nature of the Chinese property crash. It is forever. Gauging China’s new urban housing demand: In a recent comprehensive update, we re-examine China’s underlying demand for The post China’s thousand year property crash appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 09:49
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The Tally Room
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 09:30
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Earlier this month I published a blog post which discovered that the average 2CP margin of victory has not actually been getting smaller at recent federal elections. I didn’t end up including the chart in the post, but I also identified that the numbers of marginal seats hasn’t been going up over time, despite a number of formerly-safe seats now becoming marginal non-classic seats. But I wanted to explore the make-up of those marginal seats over time, and the safe seats not included on the list: seats for each party, and the number of classic and non-classic seats. |