It’s a remote control that turns your Kindle pages for you. Just in case you were too tired after lying around in bed, eating chocolates all day to move your thumb a couple of inches.
It’s the Syukuyu RF Remote Control Page Turner!
Earlier this week, The AFR’s Michael Read published an analysis showing that Australian households suffered the sharpest decline in real per capita household disposable income in the world last year. As shown in the chart above, real Australian household incomes fell by 6.1% in the year to September 2023, against a 1.7% rise across the
By Stephen Saunders Are our top universities lofty centres of independent research and scholarship, or engines and extensions of government policy departments? Climate (population) engineer ANU is both. Indolent to a fault, I think little about mighty ANU, just a thirty-minute walk from our home in Canberra. But this summer’s Australia Day Awards and ANU
DL-S appearing at the ABC to discuss the ANZ-Suncorp takeover. Steve Austin at the ABC: Explain this one to me: how does this improve banking competition? DL-S: It doesn’t. It does the opposite. I think that’s pretty obvious. You’re reducing the number of banks in the market. That was used by the ACCC to initially
It’s interesting how quickly things change! I mean wasn’t it just yesterday when Morrison and his fellow Liberals were telling us that people were innocent until proven guilty and, if anyone hadn’t been convicted, then they were innocent. Of course, this legal concept doesn’t apply to people who have been charged with a crime because…
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In this week’s episode of The Treasury of Common Sense with Radio 2GB’s Mike Jeffreys, I explained why the Australian Greens’ advocacy for higher levels of immigration runs counter to the party’s faux concerns over the environment, ‘net zero’, and housing affordability. Edited Transcript: The Greens housing spokesperson, Max Chandler-Mather, appeared on Sunday’s ABC Insiders
Australia for UNHCR Media Release Australia for UNHCR is appealing for renewed support for Ukrainians as conditions worsen two years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion. Since the war began on 24 February 2022, two million homes have been bombed, at least 70,000 people have been killed, and millions have been forced to flee. “Fierce attacks…
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Leading homelessness advocates and unions have united in a joint push for state and federal housing ministers to plug a $73 million funding black hole that threatens to worsen the homelessness crisis by jeopardising the future of 700 critical support jobs, as ministers meet today. Homelessness services are overwhelmed by surging demand as the nation…
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) has published an interesting report explaining how New Zealand has solved its labour shortage by engaging seniors in the labour force. IPA noted that “Australian pensioners and veterans face an effective marginal tax rate of 69% if they choose to work”, which is a major disincentive. By contrast, “pensioners
Nominations will close next Thursday for the Tasmanian state election, and we’ve seen a surge in candidate announcements in the last few days. I’ve just finished updating my candidate lists, and they show that there is a real increase in independent candidates compared to recent elections, pointing towards larger ballot papers than in previous Tasmanian elections.