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AustralianPolitics.com Friday, January 26, 2024 - 12:32 Source

Australia Day 1973 passed almost unnoticed, according to one radio news report, but Gough Whitlam used his 53rd day as prime minister to announce a search for a new national anthem.

Listen to a news report from radio 3DB in Melbourne on January 26, 1973, including a clip from Whitlam’s speech (1m)

Whitlam’s announcement of a replacement for God Save the Queen came in his Australia Day address. He said:

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AustralianPolitics.com Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 14:59 Source

The former prime minister, Scott Morrison, has announced that he will retire from parliament at the end of February.

Morrison made the announcement in a statement posted on Facebook. He said he would “take on new challenges in the global corporate sector and spend more time with my family.”

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AustralianPolitics.com Saturday, January 20, 2024 - 18:37 Source

The libertarian economist and newly-elected President of Argentina, Javier Milei, has delivered a strident defence of capitalism at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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AustralianPolitics.com Friday, January 19, 2024 - 14:55 Source

This is the official timetable of key dates for the Dunkley by-election on March 2, 2024.

The dates show the election is being conducted within the minimum timeframe whereby polling day must be no less than 33 days from the issue of the writ.

2024 Dunkley By-Election Timetable

Event
Date
Explanation

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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 Friday, July 1, 2022 - 14:50 Source

Homeowners will face mortgage rates near 5.5% in a little over a year, according to a survey of 22 leading Australian economists.

The Conversation’s 2022-23 forecasting survey predicts an increase in the Reserve Bank’s cash rate from its present 0.85% to a peak of 3.1% by next August.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 14:42 Source

Census data to be released Tuesday shows Australia changing rapidly before COVID, gaining an extra one million residents from overseas in the past five years, almost all of them in the three years before borders were closed.

For the first time since the question has been asked in the census, more than half of Australia’s residents (51.5%) report being either born overseas or having an overseas-born parent.

More than one quarter of the one million new arrivals have come from India or Nepal.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - 14:37 Source

The really bizarre thing about calls for a UK-style windfall profits tax on gas is that Australia’s already got one.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, June 8, 2022 - 14:16 Source

By lifting its cash rate by 0.5 points, from 0.35% to 0.85%, the Reserve Bank has added about another $120 per month in payments for a A$500,000 mortgage.

If financial markets are to be believed, by the end of this year it will have added a total of $800 per month – and, by the end of next year, a total approaching $1,000 per month.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 13:52 Source

A recession in the US usually brings on a recession in the rest of the world, although not always in Australia.

Australia has escaped such a recession twice in the past 50 years.

We avoided the early-2000s so-called tech-wreck recession, and we avoided the so-called “great recession” during the global financial crisis.

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Peter Martin Wednesday, May 25, 2022 - 13:45 Source

Stand by for something “reckless and dangerous”.

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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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Peter Martin Wednesday, May 18, 2022 - 13:05 Source

The last week of campaigns used to be frantic, behind the scenes. In public, right up until the final week, the leaders would make all sorts of promises, many of them expensive, with nary a mention of the spending cuts or tax increases that would be needed to pay for them.

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