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MacroBusiness Friday, July 25, 2025 - 11:30 Source

How can the central bank of the only enduring immigration-led, labour market expansion economic model on earth never mention immigration? It is a trick question, of course. The model is only possible because the mention of the word immigration is cancelled, thus enabling the ongoing slaughter of living standards for extant Australians. Imagine if they

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MacroBusiness Friday, July 25, 2025 - 11:30 Source

ANZ is excited. China: reflation kicks off China kicks off a reflation strategy, signalled by a mega hydropower project. The goal is to restore the inflation dynamics via supply-side tightening and creating new demand side. Producer price index (PPI) could turn positive soon due to rising commodity prices. But it will still takeat least two

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MacroBusiness Friday, July 25, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Last year, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) became involved in its own corruption crisis. When the Royal Commission on the Robodebt Scheme released its report, the commissioner recommended that six people be submitted to the NACC for investigation. Many Robodebt victims were outraged when the NACC announced that it would not execute the recommendation. The

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MacroBusiness Friday, July 25, 2025 - 10:30 Source

In the Albanese government’s first term in office, a strategy that could be broadly summed up as “Steady as she goes” or “Small target government” was pursued. While such an approach left the government with a minimal book of policy accomplishments, it also provided the Coalition few easy opportunities to gain momentum and present themselves

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MacroBusiness Friday, July 25, 2025 - 10:00 Source

Neither policymakers nor proponents of a Big Australia accept the importance of water in the immigration debate. A succession of papers has warned that Australia will experience chronic water shortages and escalating water bills as its population rises by millions, driven by chronically high immigration levels. For example, Infrastructure Australia’s 2017 modelling forecast that real household

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xkcd.com Friday, July 25, 2025 - 10:00 Source

Geologists claim it's because the earlier Cenozoic used to be called the Tertiary, but that's just a ruse to hide the secret third geologic period, between the Neogene and the Quaternary, that they won't tell us about.

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MacroBusiness Friday, July 25, 2025 - 09:30 Source

The ferrous complex short squeeze is flaming out. Arch CCP groveller Twiggy Forrest was on the hustings yesterday. The Australian. The next chapter in the Australia-China relationship will define our shared futures for the next century. It was significant that one of the defining moments of the Prime Minister’s visit was one I had not experienced on

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MacroBusiness Friday, July 25, 2025 - 09:00 Source

Risk markets were relatively benign overnight as the ECB meeting came and went without any movement in interest rates as expected while the latest US initial jobless claims didn’t surprise either with the USD putting in a very small rally after a week or more of weakness. Pound Sterling fell back the sharpest among the

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MacroBusiness Friday, July 25, 2025 - 08:00 Source

The human face of Australia’s rental crisis was revealed this year when father of three Morgan Cox bravely fronted ABC’s Q&A seeking answers to Australia’s rental crisis. Morgan Cox is a typical hardworking Australian living on the NSW Central Coast. He works two jobs to help support his partner and three children, one of whom

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Your Democracy Friday, July 25, 2025 - 07:49 Source

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that his country will recognize Palestine as a state in pursuit of what he called a “historic commitment to a just and lasting peace” in the region.

In a surprise statement on X on Thursday, Macron said that he would make a formal announcement to this effect at the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York.

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Your Democracy Friday, July 25, 2025 - 06:10 Source

Australia has lifted biosecurity restrictions on beef imports from the United States, one of the key grievances that led the Trump administration to impose tariffs on Australia.

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Your Democracy Friday, July 25, 2025 - 05:43 Source

US Senator Lindsey Graham recently slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for weakening Ukraine’s “critical anti-corruption institutions” — the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).

Why is the US senator so invested?

 

Gutting the Western-Built Machine

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