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Via Hong Kong Free Press: Police have fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon containing dye and tear spray at pro-democracy protesters, as Hong Kong entered its fifteenth week of demonstrations. The march, originally organised by the Civil Human Rights Front, was cancelled after the police objected to the event. But on Sunday, thousands

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Just
over two months ago, I wrote a piece on where the Religious Discrimination bill
was likely to go, given the content of the recommendations from the Ruddock
review into ‘religious freedom’. As I demonstrated then, most of the likely
provisions were to do with the continuation of discrimination by the religious
with a little dose of protection of hate speech thrown in1. While I
have occasionally had to wade through legislation to provide reports to my
employer on topics dealing with my speciality, there are people vastly more

Alan Kohler climbs aboard the monetary helicopter today: QE involves printing money and buying government bonds from banks to give them cash. Why not just give the cash straight to the government? Presumably because central bankers don’t trust politicians, although why they would trust bankers more is a mystery. Anyway, fair enough, politicians are not

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Why would anyone buy an apartment today? Via the AFR: Buyer fears about high-rise apartment fires and construction risks are causing sale times to blow out by more than 60 per cent compared with a year ago, creating bottlenecks for sellers. Lenders are also making it tougher for borrowers to buy apartments by blacklisting some

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In the lead-up to its fake population summit, which has been hijacked by ‘Big Australia’ mafia, The SMH has released a report telling Sydneysiders to get used to longer and more uncomfortable commutes as another 1.3 million people overload the city by 2030: Overcrowded trains and busier roads. An extra 1.3 million people in Sydney

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The New South Wales Government has instructed councils to keep flammable cladding locations secret in order to thwart potential terrorists from setting these buildings alight, as well as to protect apartment values. From The Guardian: In NSW, a taskforce has spent two years auditing 185,000 building records to understand how widespread flammable cladding is. Laws have been

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As we know, the global economy is on the edge of an oil shock as Saudi Arabia reels from Houthi rebel attacks. How will this impact the Australian economy and assets? The largest single impact will be on Aussie households. Petrol prices are the largest average monthly spend already, via CommSec: The mid-range shock scenario

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By RosemaryJ36   When you look back over the last 400 to 500 years, the accelerating pace of scientific discovery is really startling. It is not just how much has changed, but the increasing rate at which one discovery or resultant innovation follows another. There is an old puzzle which asks “How many times would you…

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I am writing this letter to anyone who considers themselves as part of the left movement. Excuse my lack of salutation. I was going to address everyone with Dear Comrades; however, that only poses my first problem. I don’t know if comrades is even a fitting greeting anymore. I don’t even know where I fit…

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Dear Mr President, This week the Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, will attend a state dinner at the White House. This is terrific honour. But there are several critical issues that you should raise with him. The first is to ask PM Morrison why his government is defending MP Gladys Liu, an ethic Chinese

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One of the biggest myths surrounding Australia’s international student industry is the claim that it is Australia’s fourth biggest export and worth more than $35 billion in 2018, as illustrated in the next table from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT): In a recent speech, Australia’s trade minister, David Coleman, spruiked the immense

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Global Macro / Markets / Investing: Trader builds $5 billion position after realizing he wasn’t using test program, but brokerage says he can’t keep his profit – CNBC Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech – NPR Ten Thousand Years Of History Show That Expecting Big Tech To Self-Regulate Is A Fantasy –

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