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Your Democracy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 15:49 Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4db5qiPzCM

Ukraine’s Blatant Power Play: 5 Shocking Demands That Could Drag Germany into War! | TN World

 

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Your Democracy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 15:20 Source

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Your Democracy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 12:20 Source

'Hopefully' Russia and Ukraine 'will make a deal this week,' says US President Trump

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that "hopefully" a deal can be struck "this week" without specifying what that arrangement would entail.

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xkcd.com Monday, April 21, 2025 - 10:00 Source

'Wow, that must be why you swallow so many of them per year!' 'No, that's spiders. You swallow WAY more ants.'

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The Tally Room Monday, April 21, 2025 - 09:30 Source

I have referenced the concept of “personal vote” and “sophomore surge” quite a few times during this campaign, and in the past, but I thought it would be useful to actually collect data and analyse how much of an effect we can detect from the swings data.

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John Quiggin Monday, April 21, 2025 - 09:27 Source

Having finished off the Easter eggs (or bunnies/bilbies) and Hot Cross Buns (though these are a year-round thing now), I ought to be turning attention back to what’s happening in the world. But that’s too depressing to look at, a view our aspiring leaders have endorsed by resolutely ignoring anything more geopolitical than the price of petrol.

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John Quiggin Monday, April 21, 2025 - 09:26 Source

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

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Your Democracy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 07:38 Source

Anthony Albanese has claimed victory in Australia’s “Vegemite-gate” trade stoush with Canada, which has relented and allowed a Toronto-based cafe owner to sell the spread after initially ruling it did not comply with local food laws.

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MacroBusiness Monday, April 21, 2025 - 00:10 Source

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is famously bad at forecasting Australian wage growth. For the past 15 years, the RBA’s Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) has routinely forecast stronger wage growth than has occurred. The RBA continues to make the same mistakes, with Australian wage growth falling more than projected despite the nation’s low

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Club Troppo Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 21:39 Source

Many people think that if Medicare works for getting sick, it must also work for dental and anxiety and ADHD and various other types of problems.That isn’t necessarily the case.One big problem for any sort of health intervention is the interested carer. They have an incentive to suggest you need treatment.In the case of classic sickness, overtreatment has been restrained through various mechanisms.

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 20:24 Source

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THE BLOT REPORT Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 20:19 Source
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