Belgian police barricaded the entrance to a conference of national conservatives in the capital of the EU for several hours, in what participants denounced as censorship and political repression.
Richard Marles, the Defence Minister, has launched a new National Defence Strategy and Integrated Investment Program. Marles spoke today at the National Press Club. A full transcript of his speech appears below. Listen to Marles’ speech and questions (72m):
By Stephen Wu, Economist at CBA: We expect headline CPI increased by 0.7%/qtr and 3.4%/yr in Q1 24. Our forecast sees the trimmed mean CPI rise by 0.8%/qtr and the annual rate step down to 3.7%. An outcome in line with our forecasts would imply a slight undershoot relative to the RBA’s expectations. The upcoming
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Good on the Greens for trying but this argument is weak: Outgoing Woolworths boss Brad Banducci was threatened with six months in jail for contempt of the Senate after he refused to directly answer questions about a profit metric, in a fiery Senate hearing that went off the rails on Tuesday. Mr Banducci declined to
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The December Mid-Year Fiscal and Economic Outlook (MYEFO) projected that Australia’s net overseas migration would fall to 375,000 this financial year. Labor’s projection was categorically blown out of the water by Tuesday’s net permanent and long-term arrivals figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which recorded the strongest monthly (105,500), quarterly (172,400), and annual
I’ve done a fair bit of international travel over the last five years, Covid notwithstanding, and the thing I most appreciated in an airline was a deep recline. It’s not easy sleeping in flight, but even a couple of inches lower on the recline helps.
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The December quarter national accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recorded that GDP per capita fell by 1.0% in 2023: Real per capita household final consumption also fell by 2.5% in 2023, which drove the 0.3% annual decline in per capita final demand: Meanwhile, real per capita household disposable income in Australia plummeted
According to the most recent set of CoreLogic and PropTrack home value statistics, Perth is at the forefront of the nation’s price boom, with a spectacular rise in home values in the year to March. CoreLogic’s daily housing values index reported that Perth dwelling values increased by 19.8% in the year to March, considerably above
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'Then CBS Fired You?': Jim Jordan Questions Catherine Herridge About Reporting On Biden, Hunter
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