After two weeks of intense negotiations, delegates at the UN climate summit in Baku, known as COP29, agreed late on Saturday to provide funding for developing countries to combat and adapt to climate change.
The Australian government has scrapped plans to introduce fines for social media platforms that fail to stop the spread of “seriously harmful mis and disinformation” online. The ruling Labor Party acknowledged that its Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill stood no chance of garnering enough support in parliament.
The lunatic RBA is back. It was a label I used for years before COVID as the central bank was far too tight for too long. Inflation in Australia is collapsing. It’s going to keep doing so on every measure. Input and output prices are already back in the lowflation range. Moreover, inflation is being
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Harry Chemay published an article on Michael West showing data from the latest NAB Wellbeing Survey. It showed how older Australians are carrying significant debts into their retirement years. “According to the ABS, the most recent estimated average mortgage outstanding for those aged between 55 and 64 is now north of $230,000”, Chemay wrote. “How
By James Moore In 1960, a handsome young senator and war hero from Massachusetts was trying to become the first Catholic president of the United States. His father, who was deeply involved in his son’s campaign, was worried about the closeness of the race with Richard M. Nixon, a Republican from California. When John Fitzgerald…
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The White House promises sprint efforts to preserve the "legacy" and "productive" work of outgoing US President Joe Biden, who failed to win re-election for a second term and spent more than a third of his first term in country residences and on the beach.
In the new era
Despite the punishments
We are grown
We are alert
We are more alive
To rescue each other
In the new era
Despite the dangers
Of brute force
Of the frightening night
We are in the struggle
To survive
This is one of those rare, weird posts for paying subscribers only. I threw a book together last week that will be going on sale next week, but for now, for you, it’s free.
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In light of recent elections, it’s very tempting to look at the argument that was once put forward that, as half the population is below average in intelligence and/or political awareness, that democracy is a flawed model and that we’d be better off adopting the model where only the elite got to vote… Ah, those…
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I noted on Saturday how final auction clearance rates across Australia’s two largest markets, Sydney and Melbourne, had fallen to their lowest level of the year, pushing dwelling values lower. CoreLogic has released its preliminary auction results for the weekend, which remained soft. The national preliminary auction clearance rate was 65.3%, up slightly from the
Multiple nuclear peer adversaries challenge the U.S. and its allies' and partners' security, according to the Defense Department.
The House easily passed a bill that would give Donald Trump and future presidents a bludgeon to target and silence dissenting nonprofits on Thursday, in what opponents warned is a step toward allowing the executive branch to wield unchecked, authoritarian power.
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered his Ministerial Statement on the Economy this week, which boasted that Labor has “turned two huge deficits into two substantial surpluses – the first in nearly two decades”. Chalmers noted that when Labor was elected, “gross debt was projected to be at levels not seen since the aftermath of World