I’m back to running primary figures as the headline for the latest fortnightly YouGov-Fifty Acres poll, because their two-party headline figures remain highly unorthodox – in this case attributing a 51-49 lead to the Coalition, compared with 50-50 last time, based on near equal results on the primary vote. The pollster’s other peculiarity, low primary votes for both major parties, are maintained, with the Coalition steady on 34% and Labor up a point to 33%.
From Paul Keating yesterday: The United States will not be able to recover its position as the dominant power in the world – nor its approach to globalism – even if Donald Trump were to be replaced by vice-president Mike Pence, according to former prime minister Paul Keating. In a tough assessment of United States
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DXY rebounded last night: AUD fell against it but rise against EUR: It fell against EMs: Gold held at the highs: Brent held at the lows: Base metals are still rising for no apparent reason: EM stocks took off: High yield too: US yields rose: And European, especially Italy: Stocks soared: Welcome to the Trump
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Eighteen far right groups and every single person who marched as part of the “Unite The Right” Rally on 11-12 August 2017 is being sued by two female Charlottesville residents injured when a car allegedly driven by a rally participant crashed into the back of their car.
Banks are bridling today via their good friend the AFR: The major banks have fired several torpedoes towards the government’s regime to lift standards in the banking sector, warning it will blur regulatory responsibilities, confuse legal obligations and lacks procedural fairness by preventing court appeals. National Australia Bank’s submission on the Banking Executive Accountability Regime is the
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@LesStonehouseOn 21 August 2017
From The Conversation. The densification of Australian cities has been heralded as a boon for housing choice and diversity. The up-beat promotion of “the swing to urban living” by one of Australia’s leading developer lobby groups epitomises the rhetoric around this seismic shift in housing. Glossy advertisements for luxury living in our city centres and
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Iron ore price charts for August 22, 2017: Tianjin benchmark rose 70 cents to $78.80. Coking coal futures are falling as the seaborne is now more expensive than Chinese sourced. Futures were pounded overnight. There’s a good chance we’re done here. Coking coal is unlikely to go higher and position limits in futures are weighing.
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Via Reuters: Chinese banks are set to see a slowdown in lending growth in the second half of the year, having exhausted most of their annual credit quota, raising the spectre of corporate defaults as financing costs climb further in the world’s No.2 economy. Beijing’s crackdown on riskier lending has already stretched financing costs and
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Global Macro / Markets / Investing: World population to reach 9.8 billion by 2050, up 31% from now – PRNewswire (so let’s shove 30% more new Aussies in then?) Market forces will drive takeup on electric cars, even without bans on polluting vehicles – Cleantechnica Switch to renewables won’t end the geopolitics of energy –
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Continued from Part One.
The ABC and Children’s Programming – The Highs, Lows and Power-plays 
The promise of the early years
I love this Eurythmics medley from the SNL 25 Year reunion show which features "Here Comes The Rain Again", "Ball and Chain" and "Sweet Dreams". I love everything about it; the costumes, the music instrument change over and Annie rocking it out in true Annie style.Only when it came to the line "... I want to talk like lovers do..." I instinctively shrieked "Shane, can you please move over?!
There's one clue for opponents of same sex marriage in a just released survey published by the Australian National University: don't have priests spruiking your message. Ministers of religion are held in low regard.
by Chris Becker Outside Japan its been a fairly positive day here in Asia with most stock markets advancing following the tepid mood overnight on Wall Street and Europe. The Yen weakened against the USD on the back of Trump’s Afghanistan speech as did Euro while Aussie dollar remained firm. In mainland China the Shanghai
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Today's raging grief out only lasted 65 minutes—and I was mobile the whole time, not trapped in the shed like yesterday.It started in the shower and I noticed the grief out tends to start there so on return following exercise I banned myself from ranting or thinking in the shower and demanded joyful music instead bellow forth from my tremendous lungs.I think I sang about the possum that lives in the three-foot enclave between our house and the one next door and how I probably shouldn't scare it by rage screaming into the shower wall where it lives on the other side. So it wasn't quite what