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AustralianPolitics.com Friday, January 19, 2024 - 12:19 Source

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a “country report” on the Australian economy, warning that growth is weakening and inflation remains persistently high.

IMF

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AustralianPolitics.com Monday, January 8, 2024 - 14:26 Source

As 2024 starts, a reminder that across the nine federal, state and territory jurisdictions, there are eight Labor governments.

Current Australian Heads of Government & Opposition Leaders – from December 21, 2024

No.
Jurisdiction
PM/Premier/
Chief Minister
Age
Party
Since
Opposition Leader
Age
Party
Since

1.

AUSTRALIA

Anthony Albanese

62

ALP

23.05.2022

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AustralianPolitics.com Saturday, January 6, 2024 - 14:05 Source

On the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection, President Joe Biden has made a swingeing attack on his putative Republican opponent in this year’s election, former President Donald Trump.

Speaking in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Biden told his audience: “Democracy is on the ballot. Freedom is on the ballot.”

Watch Biden’s speech (33m):

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Peter Martin Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 21:58 Source

If you’re looking for clues about whether the Reserve Bank has any interest rate rises left, Governor Michele Bullock offered several in her statement after Tuesday’s board meeting, saying:

  • the latest monthly figures showed inflation “continuing to moderate”

  • inflation expectations remained “consistent with the inflation target”

  • wages growth was “not expected to increase much further”.

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oecomuse Friday, September 16, 2022 - 22:31 Source

Among the seemingly endless coverage of Queen Elizabeth II dying at age 96 in Balmoral, Scotland, a legal fact gets lost: this event generates exactly zero change in law. There are non-law implications – historical, cultural, symbolic, administrative – but not legal change.

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WixxyLeaks Tuesday, May 31, 2022 - 20:39 Source

The Victorian Labor government has done some fantastic work, but principles have to count for something.

Just for the record, I canceled my membership to the Victorian Labor Party on the 13th May.

Those of you who know me well will know that this hasn’t been a decision I’ve taken lightly, however under the circumstances, it’s a decision that was easy to make.

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oecomuse Friday, May 20, 2022 - 22:43 Source

You may find this hard to believe, but the 2016 federal election campaign was a full fortnight longer than this one. I remember journalists from the campaign bus complaining afterwards that Malcolm Turnbull was moribund and lazy, booking a single daily event.

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oecomuse Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 23:10 Source

Yes hello long time blogger, first time in almost two years post. In late 2020 my life (and writing) became consumed by completing a doctorate, which was eventually conferred in September 2021. I even popped on a floppy hat in December last year.

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WixxyLeaks Friday, March 25, 2022 - 19:53 Source

Labor’s Senate leadership under attack from within as three leading Senator’s are smeared in the ugliest factional fight to date from a repeat offending sub-faction of the Victorian Right. So what’s it all about and who’s involved?

Another Labor factional shitfight. What’s new eh?

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WixxyLeaks Monday, October 4, 2021 - 20:31 Source

The events over the next week in NSW could have massive ramifications for the whole country.

There is a lot going on the NSW at the moment, however, I fear worse may be yet to come.

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WixxyLeaks Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 17:54 Source

Now that ‘Back In Black’ has transformed into ‘I See Red’ Australia is waking up to the fact that after years of Coalition mismanagement ‘The Honeymoon Is Over’.

Although many of us would like to think so, elections are not won from the left or the right, they are won from the centre. At the end of election day, it is the swinging voters that will decide the immediate future direction of the country.

And so it went in 2013 when as a nation we were afflicted with this Coalition government.

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Left Focus Saturday, March 6, 2021 - 15:22 Source

   

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Left Focus Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 16:23 Source

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