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One of the many fails of my body, and curiously right from near start of life, is my propensity for middle ear infections. Without antibiotics I'd have been dead from multiple infections as a child. I have stents in my ear drums to let out discharge from the middle ear but it's a two-way street and I have to keep water out of my ears lest it enter the middle ear then pool with intent. In then shower, when I roll my head beneath the pour, I fold over my ears to protect the canal. Today I didn't. I tilted my head and then a seeming fuckton of water poured straight into the middle ear.

By Leith van Onselen The ABS has today released its property price index – incorporating both detached houses and units – which registered a 2.2% rise in home values nationally over the March quarter and a 10.2% gain over the year, an acceleration from the 7.7% annual growth initially reported in the 2016 calendar year:

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Dalian is wandering aimlessly today: Big Iron is mostly up: Big Gas is burning: Big Gold is correcting: Big Bubble has had its run seemingly: Big Liar is soldiering on: And a bonus chart today, hope your enjoying Australian exceptionalism: If not, try the MB Fund launching July 1st with a 70% international equities allocation. Sign

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Dockless bike share faces a much bigger challenge in Australia than in countries like China, especially given new entrant oBike has to make it work commercially What are the prospects for dockless bike share in Australian cities?

Australian Technologies Competition shortlists 32 of Australia’s “most exciting” tech companies, including an EV charging outfit, a solar thermal solutions company, and an energy monitoring specialist.

By Leith van Onselen It never ceases to amaze how the Coalition’s token changes to the ‘skilled’ temporary worker visa system can elicit so much outrage from company heads. The latest example of this outrage has come from Woodside CEO, Peter Coleman, who claims that the Coalition’s decision to change the 457 visa scheme could

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Via Macquarie: Media reports suggest Japanese steel mills have concluded 2Q contract met coal prices at $135 per tonne for PCI materials and $126 per tonne for semisoft coal, down from $180/t and $171/t respectively in 1Q. As we wrote earlier, HCC contract prices already appear to have switched to an index averaged price, with

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From Credit Suisse: ■ Growth vs reform: The current waxing and waning of Chinese policy occurs as the authorities try to ensure economic stability while they undertake the very large task of economic reform. Over the last few months reform was “winning” with an effort to reduce some of the excesses in the financial system

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The abyss is back, and this time it spat up a penis (worm). At the end of May, we brought you a roundup of the strangest creatures dragged from the depths of the Australian abyssal zone, and you probably thought nature couldn't get any weirder. But then over the weekend, Twitter got itself all in a tizzy over this:

Every missile is a carefully packaged bad day traveling at high speeds. Hypersonic missiles are a modern development in the long-running military arms race to figure out just how certain that bad end is for the humans on the receiving end. Russia's Zircon missile could enter arsenals as early as 2018. Despite headlines to the contrary, not enough about the missile is known yet to definitely claim that it poses an uncounterable threats ships in the sea.

As I listened to the panellists on Q&A last night discussing the erosion of trust in institutions, I was forcibly struck by the quiet common sense of Jane Goodall and her inspirational message to a young boy who asked what he, at age 11, could do to help prevent the destruction of natural habitats, and…

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Via the AFR: On the basis of anonymity, a former Macquarie insider said debate around redomiciling was real in 2006 and 2007, when the concept was debated and investigated. But despite a work stream being set up to assess the idea, it didn’t get as far as speaking to regulators in other markets. “It’s easy

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By Matthew Mitchell Do you ever wonder what our society would look like if everyday people were calling the shots? If everyday people had more influence rather than a few privileged rich and large corporations? Would we have sold our public utilities? Would the centre of Melbourne look less like Manhattan; have less poorly constructed…

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