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Club Troppo Monday, April 29, 2024 - 01:25 Source

Amid Australia’s justified concern over male violence against women, we should remember how much we have been able to achieve so far. Some important indicators of violence against women have more than halved in the past three decades.

Prologue: Violence against women is a bad thing, and it’s still bad even when it used to be worse. We should be trying hard to lower rates of violence, by finding good solutions and implementing them with urgency. We should also understand just what we’re dealing with – which is what this summary tries to do.

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MacroBusiness Monday, April 29, 2024 - 00:10 Source

Earlier this month, CBA economist Harry Ottley published the below chart showing how the rate of rental growth is highly correlated to the change in population growth relative to apartment construction: The above chart should send shudders down the spines of Australian renters, given that population growth is expanding at a historically strong pace at

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MacroBusiness Monday, April 29, 2024 - 00:05 Source

Goldman with the note USD: Who you gonna run to? There have been different phases to the Dollar’s resilience this year. January brought a reversal of the December FOMC “pivot party” following stronger inflation and activity data. In February, the Dollar traded in the middle of the pack as markets priced broad cyclical optimism. Through

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 19:28 Source

WASHINGTON — The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside, with Biden instead using the annual White House correspondents' dinner to make both jokes and grim warnings about Republican rival Donald Trump's fight to reclaim the U.S. presidency.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 14:17 Source

The Israeli authorities, in their campaign of remorseless killing, doctoring and adjusting the numbers of the Palestinian populace for whatever future awaits, have been found wanting on accusations that Hamas terrorists packed, stacked and filled UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).  Not that this, in of…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 14:08 Source

By Jane Salmon   “Visa Amnesty, Permanent Residency, No Deportation After 11 Years”. Refugee Vigil Outside Minister Giles’ Thomastown Vic Office Monday 29/4/24 – 10am Refugee and stateless families are urging the federal government to provide amnesty for the 10,000 refugees who have been living in Australia for the past 10 years – ahead of a…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 11:36 Source

Even if one doesn’t frequent that cause of so much misinformation, social media, and merely relies on the reliable sources such as Sky After Dark, one will undoubtedly have learned that our society has been overrun by woke communists and Marxists. While those of you who haven’t read “Das Kapital” – and even those of…

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 08:12 Source

GUS: Putin is smarter than the average american president....

John Subba: I have read stories on Putin's life.

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 06:43 Source

The Ukraine conflict has become a great boon for American Big Five defense contractors, sending their stocks up and boosting their profits.

Before adopting the latest $61 billion package, the US Congress had passed four Ukraine spending bills totaling $113 since the beginning of the conflict in February 2022.

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 28, 2024 - 06:22 Source

As Peter Dutton, Coalition media and the security apparatus ramp up efforts to censor the internet, Michael West checks in on anti-China think tank, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. 

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 16:00 Source

By Bert Hetebry   Where did the term ‘Semitic’ come from and what did it mean? Look closely and see how mythology defines people in a very real way, marking their difference, no matter how small, as different, a means of judging, marginalising or inclusion, allowing for life or death over a definition of unprovable origin.…

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