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MacroBusiness Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - 00:05 Source

It is clear that Australia is on the verge of another house price boom. As illustrated below by Alex Joiner from IFM Investors, both Cotality’s and PropTrack’s dwelling value series lifted strongly in August, continuing the run of strong results. “If you’re struggling to afford a home, the only worse news than the Cotality dwelling

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George Monbiot Monday, September 1, 2025 - 20:41 Source

Marvellous giants are returning to our shores, which means only one thing: pathetic inadequates using them as a test of manhood.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 28th August 2025

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 1, 2025 - 16:30 Source

Asian share markets are starting the trading week in very mixed fashion with Chinese stocks leading the way while Australian shares have pulled back with the absence of a lead from the US as they have a long weekend. The fallout from the Friday night decision that the Trump regime’s tariffs are actually illegal (do

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THE BLOT REPORT Monday, September 1, 2025 - 14:08 Source

Again and again the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) refers to what is being perpetrated by Israel on the people of Gaza as a ‘war’1-3. Everybody who has any understanding of what is going on knows this is a genocide.

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 1, 2025 - 13:30 Source

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has slashed the official cash rate (OCR) by 2.5%, with another 0.5% of cuts expected by the end of 2026. As Justin Fabo of Antipodean Macro illustrates below, the decline in the OCR has cut the cost of new mortgages, which should have raised housing demand and driven up

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 1, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Westpac with the forecast. • Australia’s recovery stalled over the first six months of 2025, with the economy expected to have grown 0.4%qtr in Q2 and just 1.3%yr in six-month annualised terms – way below the RBA’s updated trend estimate of +2.0%yr. • The extent of the pull back in public demand has surprised on

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MacroBusiness Monday, September 1, 2025 - 12:30 Source

This is amusing to watch. Australia’s largest east coast exporter, Australia Pacific LNG in which Origin Energy owns a 27.5 per cent stake, is arguing for sweeping reforms that would rewire the domestic market and impose stricter obligations on rival producers to prioritise local buyers. By contrast, Santos — operator of the Gladstone LNG project

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