Now that we have the final booth results for the Tasmanian state election, I’ve decided to add another chapter to a series of blog posts analysing the geographic trends of individual candidates within each party within each electorate. You can read my blog posts about the 2021 election and the 2024 election here. I’ve also done similar analyses for ACT elections.
The Albanese government cannot be trusted on immigration. In 2023, former Home Affairs Minister turned Housing Minister Clare O’Neil delivered a keynote address to the AFR Workforce Summit, where she bemoaned the blowout in temporary migrants under the former Coalition government: Today, really for the first time in our modern history, our uncapped, unplanned temporary
Risk markets moved on geopolitical and outright political shenigans overnight with Apple pushing the NASDAQ over 1% higher while possible good news over Ukraine – via the US bullying India into submission over its Russian oil purchases – and more speculation about changes at the US Federal Reserve kept the USD significantly weak. Only Yen
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DXY is dropping again. Sticking with the recent rally pattern, AUD is not rising as fast. Lead boots are stable. Gold is firm, oil weak. Metals tracked DXY. Big bear intact. EM rebound. Junk too. Yields firmed. BTFD! The AUD has resumed rising with broader risk. Or, should we say, resumed inflating with the broader
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Those with a regard for their welfare would do well not to get between ASIO chief, Mike Burgess, and a soapbox.
US President Donald Trump praised the outcome of a meeting between his Russia counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff, calling it “very productive.”
Both sides will work on ending the Ukraine conflict “in the days and weeks to come,” the American leader wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
On the 16th of June 2015, Donald Trump declared that he was going to run for the presidency of the United States. At the time, it was a source of jokes for late-night hosts and a target of ridicule by Democrats riding high following two consecutive strong presidential election victories for Barack Obama. For those
‘Absolutely the best ship’: Japan wins $10bn contract to grow Australia’s war fleetThree Mogami-class frigates part of wider deal to replace ageing Anzac-class frigates and give navy a more lethal surface combatant fleet
Green across the board for Asian stocks today despite the poor lead from Wall Street overnight, basically on speculation that the US Federal Reserve is likely to ease in September against dwindling domestic conditions in the US economy. The USD lost further ground against the majors particularly Kiwi but also the Australian dollar which has
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“Hey, get down from there!” Quick, am I talking to a cat, a child, or the president of the United States? If you guessed the president, you’d be right. For some reason, Donald Trump got on the roof of the White House briefing room on Tuesday and just sort of ambled around for a bit while shouting to reporters down on the ground.
