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Today’s booth map covers two neighbouring seats in southern Sydney, both of which flipped from Liberal to Labor in 2025.

The seat of Banks covers south-western parts of the Canterbury-Bankstown coucnil area and a majority of the Georges River council area, on the northern side of the Georges River. The seat of Hughes covers parts of the Sutherland and Liverpool council areas on the southern side of the Georges River, but has recently added suburbs in the Campbelltown area to the west of that river. Those changes significantly cut the Liberal margin in the seat.

By Harry Ottley, Economist at CBA: The RBA cut the cash rate by 25bp to 3.85% as expected this week. The tone was more dovish than both we and the market had anticipated. We retain our call for two further interest rate cuts this year but expect the cuts to come marginally more quickly. Next

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Westpac with the note. The six-month annualised growth rate in the Westpac Melbourne Institute Leading Index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity relative to trend three to nine months into the future, slowed to 0.2% in April from 0.5% in March. The above-trend growth pulse that emerged at the start of the year

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Neoliberal economics began when a group of economists (Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Frank Knight) met at the Swiss resort of Mont Pèlerin to draft what they hoped would become the dominant economic model. Their model was inspired by the pro-market writings of classical economic liberals such as Adam Smith (1723-1790) and David Ricardo (1772-1823). While they said they were pushing back against the state totalitarianism of communism embodied by the increasing influence of the USSR, their neoliberalism morphed into market fundamentalism1.

Key energy hub in contested New England renewable energy zone moved to Origin owned wind project and property to reduce power lines on private farms.

The worst framing for climate debate makes a comeback - and it shows, once again, why we're thinking about this in the wrong way.

Larissa Waters has been appointed to lead the Greens after the minor party lost three seats and its captain at the federal election.

Join us in this week’s podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, and special guest economist Cameron Murray unpack the downsides of superannuation as a pension supplement—and explore the broader social issues it creates. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment

Tesla Australia boss Thom Drew on the release of the new Model Y, and supercharger plans. Plus: Riz, Tim and Sam discuss recent test drives and news of the week.

Fast and furious RSI across equity indexes has gone from extremely oversold to now hitting very overbought levels. RSI levels from the top: SPX, NDX and SOX. Source: LSEG Workspace Panic buying These are huge numbers. Forced chasing at its best. Goldman’s prime data from yesterday: 1. Global equities, second largest net buying day in 5

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The latest data from the Department of Education shows that a record 1.1 million international students were enrolled in Australia at the end of 2024, nearly 250,000 higher than the 2019 pre-pandemic peak: The number of graduate visas on issue hit a record high of 222,200 in Q1 2025, more than double the 2019 pre-pandemic

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DXY is back as the child president spews his slop in a hard reverse. AUD has switched from safe haven to growth proxy, Lead boots to the moon! That is the ugliest double top on gold I can remember. Metals vote for growth over tariffs. Miners maybe. EM nears breakout. Grow my junk! Yield pause.

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