Given that’s what we’re doing, and screwing ourselves royally in the process, here’s some advice on how to do it properly. First, you set up a special economic zone where the normal rules do not apply. This should include lower taxes and no industrial relations laws. Put it somewhere out of the way of the
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By Nathan Lynch of Thomson Reuters. By early 2015, Commonwealth Bank’s investment in the rollout of hundreds of intelligent deposit machines across Australia was paying off handsomely. The country’s largest financial institution was reporting bumper profits. The gradual automation of its teller services, via this new kit, along with the push towards 24/7 banking, was
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Thursday 24 August 2017 Bill Shorten’s timing is impeccable. Fancy turning up on Q&A last Monday after two disastrous weeks for Malcolm Turnbull. And on a day when Newspoll put Labor 8 percentage points in front of the Coalition. However it happened I would suggest that it’s time to take him seriously. The difference in…
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Via The Australian: Crossbench MP Bob Katter says he would be willing to switch his allegiance to Tony Abbott and support a government led by the former prime minister. A week after telling Malcolm Turnbull he could no longer rely on his support, Mr Katter said he wanted to meet with Mr Abbott in the
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When is a welfare program trial no longer a trial? When the Turnbull Government decides to remove those restriction which made it a trial……….This Bill removes section 124PF of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999, which specifies that the cashless debit card trial will occur in up to three discrete locations, include no more than 10,000 people, and will end on 30 June 2018. Removing this section will support the extension of arrangements in current sites, and enable the expansion of the cashless debit card to further sites.
But only for the povoes: Melbourne’s relentless population growth is placing extreme stress on crucial early childhood and health-care services, with fringe growth suburbs bearing the brunt of the pain. Services such as new maternity hospitals, maternal-and-child-health centres and kindergartens in these areas are not being properly planned for, a report by the auditor-general has found. Some
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Iron ore price charts for August 23, 2017: Tianjin benchmark fell $1.40 to $77.40. Paper firmed overnight. Steel fell sharply. From Reuters: Steel and iron ore futures in China fell about 4 percent on Wednesday as a selloff in steel dragged down prices of the steelmaking raw material, cutting short a rally that lifted iron
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Via Reuters: China’s key short-term money rates leapt to their highest in nearly five months on Wednesday, as the central bank drained funds for a third day, keeping up the pressure on financial institutions to scale back more speculative forms of financing. Similar bouts of tightness in June and July had raised fears of a
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Via SCMP: Cash-rich Chinese firms – the big spenders in the global property market in the past four years – are getting cold feet as Beijing tightens controls on outbound investment. “Requests for overseas acquisitions are already drying up,” said Paul Guan, a partner with global law firm Paul Hastings who advises Chinese institutional investors
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Global Macro / Markets / Investing: Exxon proven to be as bad as big tobacco, internally acknowledge AGW, externally obfuscate according to Harvard study – The Guardian Hiring more women means higher stock prices? – Bloomberg Euro and Pound to head to parity – FT Cyclically adjusted PE valuations head to new sky highs for
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Rossleigh: Good evening, we have the Primed Minister, Malcolm Tinbull. Malcolm: With all due respect, I don’t think you can say that. Rossleigh: Why not? Malcolm: Well, I’m just a fictional character, aren’t I? I’m not the real Prime Minister. Rossleigh: Yes, that’s what most people are saying. Malcolm: No, they’re saying that I’m a…
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150th Anniversary Of Marx's Das Kapital ; Questions and Answers Event ; New International Bookshop Melbourne, September 7th. Please come along and show your interest and support.