The EU was not “feared enough”during negotiations with the US on the newly-signed trade agreement between the two, French President Emmanuel Macron has said, according to Euractiv.
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Trump AG BREAKS SILENCE as Trump COVER UP BLOWS UP
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s Attorney General trying to get in Trump’s good graces by breaking her silence after her botched cover up by attacking a federal judge who Trump despises.
Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th July 2025
I packed a toothbrush, books and a notepad in a small rucksack, took my laptop from the house and hid it, gave my phone to a friend to look after and put a “bust card” (lawyers’ details and legal advice) in my back pocket. I wasn’t certain I would be arrested, but I wanted to be ready. Then I stepped, with other, much braver people into a legal labyrinth.
I always liked this song by Sheryl Crow, but I really love this cover by Skeggs on Triple J.
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After experiencing one of the biggest booms during the pandemic, New Zealand home values have crashed back to 2019 levels. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, this decline in home values, combined with falling mortgage rates, has drastically improved housing affordability: It is not just home prices that have crashed but construction
Prefabricated housing is often touted as a solution to Australia’s housing affordability crisis. This week, 9 News ran an advertorial on Australia’s budding prefabricated housing industry, which it heralded as “a potential new dawn for Australia’s housing crisis”. These homes, which can be constructed in 10 to 12 weeks and can be “generally installed in one
US President Donald Trump has said Moscow and New Delhi “can take their dead economies down together.”Trump announced 25% tariffs on India on Wednesday, plus penalties for the South Asian nation’s economic ties with Russia.
What do you think happens when you try to manage a narcissist with a narcissist? Both pretend the other does not exist. AFR. Leavitt said of the country’s 18 largest trading partners, two-thirds had a deal. Australia is among the huge majority of countries that have not yet struck a deal and is facing the
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Tarric Brooker posted the following chart on Twitter (X) showing that the level of real Australian resource exports per capita has risen from around $3,500 per year in 1988 to just under $15,000 per year currently. Brooker added, “Imagine the dividends of a smaller Australia”, in response to the massive population expansion experienced by Australia this
The perfect bubble is here, says the Market Ear. With systematics now fully engaged, it is hard to argue with. 100% too perfect Ring the bell. This is as good as it gets. Years ago we had the “Bündchen Bottom” in the dollar. Now the market just gave us the Sydney Sweeney squeeze Top –
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Goldman wraps the EOFY bump in retail sales. Nominal retail sales rose 1.2%mom in June, above expectations (GSe:+0.9%mom, BBG: 0.5%mom). The quarterly data were also firmer than expectations, with volumes rising 0.3%qoq in 2Q 2025 (GSe: -0.3%qoq, BBG:+0.1%qoq). That said, the acceleration in volumes growth was driven by a rebound in Queensland following flood-related weakness
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released dwelling approvals data for June, which posted another solid rise. There were 15,984 dwellings approved in trend terms in June, the highest volume since September 2022. Despite the rebound, approvals remained 20% below the monthly 20,000 run rate required to meet the Albanese government’s target to build 1.2