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Your Democracy
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 17:07
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In the global Stock Market Olympic awards last week, the race to beat their pre-GFC stock market highs was won by Denmark – the home of Lego, King Canute, Soren Kierkegaard, Hans Christian Andersen, Hamlet, Jørn Utzon, Helena Christensen, Danish pastries, and a long line of Vikings called Erik. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 16:48
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By Leith van Onselen Here’s something that I never thought that I’d see. Victoria is reportedly about to open its first iron ore mine: a 10 million tonne deposit in Victoria’s Nowa Nowa region, roughly three hours from Melbourne. From The AFR: Eastern Iron, an ASX-listed company with a market capitalisation of $5 million has the [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 16:20
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By Leith van Onselen I wrote on Wednesday how both sides of politics plan to sell Victoria’s last major state-owned asset – the Port of Melbourne – in order to fund infrastructure to support Melbourne’s rapidly growing economy. One of the proposed new infrastructure projects – the $8 billion East West tunnel – is reportedly [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 16:13
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From the Canberra Times: Abolishing carbon pricing could cost the federal budget at least $4 billion a year within five years, if the Abbott government wants to reduce emissions in line with Australia’s international commitments, says economist Ross Garnaut. The Abbott government has limited the cost of Direct Action by “capping” funding at $1.55 billion [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Delimiter
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 16:07
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Malcolm Turnbull has appointed seasoned executive and public figure Bill Scales to conduct what the Communications Minister today described as an "independent audit" of the policy development process which led to the previous Government's National Broadband Network project, in an effort which is already being described as a "witch hunt" against Labor. |
Antony Green's Election Blog
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 16:05
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Antony Green's Sout Australian Legislative Council Caclulator is now live! |
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Drag0nista's Blog
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 15:30
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Why I lament the lack of moderate voices on the right. Latest post for Guardian Australia.Filed under: Politics Tagged: Guardian Australia |
Poll Bludger
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 14:53
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A ReachTEL automated phone poll of 2600 respondents conducted last night for The Mercury shows the Tasmanian state election situation much as it’s been for a very long time now, with the Liberals on a commanding 47.4% (up 0.2% from the last poll on February 13) and Labor on a dismal 23.6% (down 1.0%). The Greens are on 18.2%, up 1.0% on last time, while the Palmer United Party is down 0.8% to 6.7%. |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 14:32
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By Leith van Onselen After last week taking the fight to Auckland’s entrenched anti-sprawl “NIMBYs” (Not In My Backyard) and “BANANAs” (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone) groups in a speech at an Auckland Chamber of Commerce and Massey University luncheon, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Bill English, has today attacked town [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 14:09
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From Terence Clarke In a certain year, actress A won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the AFIs; actress B was not nominated. In the same year, actress B won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Oscars; actress A was not nominated. They were in the same film. Name the film and the two actresses, distinguishing between their awards. |
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Inside Story
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:53
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Charitable work, but inherently risky: lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit.
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MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:49
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Gina Rinehart has made the curious claim today that Australia should follow the example of Britain’s Thatcher Government: ‘’Thatcher steered through a lack of courage in her own political party, which had become riddled with lefties or ‘non-courageous wets’ and self-interested power mongrels, who didn’t grasp or didn’t want to grasp what was needed for [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:30
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Mr Michael Pascoe, well done: Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens brought (metaphorically) his hose to this morning’s House of Representatives economics committee hearing and proceeded to use it on every issue thrown at him in the first session – except for households’ housing debt. Stevens said household credit growth for housing of 5 or 6 [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Political Owl
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:27
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I guess that when you still want to be able to blame your predecessor for anything that’s remotely bad you need to be careful about sounding too enthusiastic about any inherited figures showing that things are in fact going ahead quite nicely. So it was that Treasurer Joe Hockey treated this week’s GDP figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the December quarter in a very downbeat fashion rather than put them in the context of the latest international summary by the OECD. |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:19
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From the SMH blog today: Miners are out and tech is in. That’s the conclusion from our analysis of who is in and out of the All Ords when S&P does its quarterly rebalance of the index from March 21. The waning of the mining boom is being felt acutely among smaller resource plays, with three quarters [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:13
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As Capt’ Glenn again failed to put a dent in the Aussie today, from the AFR comes a poetic moment in the life of the Australian dollar: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit + - [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Peter Garcia-Webb
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:11
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There is an editorial by the Editorial Board in the New York Times titled: Israel’s Choice. The editorial is a comment on a speech by Benjamin Netanyanu to the American […] The post Israel’s Choice: Peace or a Jewish State appeared first on Peter Garcia-Webb. |
Croakey
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:03
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In an attempt to provide you with some ‘feel good Friday’ vibe, here are some brief stories to make you smile. Mental Health benefits in quitting smoking In case anyone needed further encouragement to quit, a new article has debunked the... Read more on the blog... |
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Jack the Insider
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 13:03
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I SEE you are fond of talking about pixies, children; and a story about pixies and how they tried to save the Enchanted Forest from… |
MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:50
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From Westpac’s Elliot Clarke comes the below interesting update on the US housing market: This week we return to familiar territory: the housing market. We attempt to disentangle noise from signal in the recent data, rather than merely screaming “weather” and moving on. Over the three months to January 2014, existing home sales have fallen [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:49
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Cross-posted from Martin North’s DFA Blog. Continuing our series on housing and population, and in response to requests, today we provide a state by state summary. This is based on a combination of ABS population and housing data, and modified by our own survey analysis. For each state, we display the estimated number of residential units (both new and existing), the state [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
Skepticlawyer
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:43
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A strain of thought I have noticed over the years with reference to international relations is “the world has changed” line: that circumstances have become so different that past fears or concerns are no longer germane to present realities. So much so, that such fears and concerns themselves have become the “real” problem. |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:40
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Who was Winston Churchill’s one homosexual lover? Who was Hugh Gaitskell’s? |
MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:38
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It’s no secret that most sell-side analysts see Fortescue Metals as a buy. In fact, at my last count it 5 buys, 7 over-weights, 5 neutrals and two sells from Deutsche and Goldman Sachs. JP Morgan is out today recommending buying on current weakness: We remain bullish on FMG, and view the recent pull back [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:32
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Who is the father of Satchel, the son Woody Allen thought was his own? |
MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:22
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By Leith van Onselen The FIRE that is Australia’s Finance, Insurance and Rental, Hiring & Real Estate Services has just gotten a little bit bigger, now matching the towering inferno reached just prior to the Global Financial Crisis. This week’s national accounts data for the December quarter, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:13
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It's not often covered by the Western media but the political turmoil in Bangladesh could become directly relevant to far off nations - including Australia, writes Rafi Alam |
Delimiter
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:09
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The nation's biggest telco Telstra has published an extremely brief four page "Transparency Report" detailing a small amount of information about its interactions with law enforcement agencies, including the fact that it responded to over 40,000 requests for information over the six months to the end of 2013 alone. |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 11:55
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Well, you learn something every day. Australia does have a big stake in what happens in the Ukraine after all. It turns out that it is a substantial iron ore exporter. From Credit Suisse: In 2013 Ukraine exported 38 Mt of iron ore (Exhibit 20), of which 45% was shipped toChina (Exhibit 21). Recent events [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 11:46
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Drilling facts into students won't improve education outcomes. We know what will - and none of these critical factors will be examined in Christopher Pyne's review, writes Des Griffin |
