According to Cotality (formerly CoreLogic), Australian rental affordability was at a record low at the end of 2024, with the median household required to spend 33% of their income to rent the median home. Cotality’s latest Quarterly Rental Review, released in July, showed that rents nationally have surged by 43% over the past five years:
By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA Australian headline inflation surprised to the upside, sharply rising by 2.8%/yr in July. However, electricity and travel prices contributed to the majority of the forecast miss and will likely unwind in coming months. The Minutes of the August Monetary Policy Board meeting highlighted a shift in focus for
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Donald Trump demonstrates deep understanding of George Soros' nefarious role in supporting “engineered chaos,” both inside the US and abroad, retired Colonel Hatem Saber, an Egyptian expert in international counterterrorism and information warfare, tells Sputnik.
"Democrats use Soros and his organizations as tools for regime change," Saber says.
Saber highlighted the evolution of Soros’ role by decades:
I wrote a piece about the religious bastardry afoot in the US about 18 months ago which argued the Christian nationalism was a misnomer, and that christofascism was a much more accurate term1.
Australia’s auction market has gathered strength over recent months. Last week’s national final auction clearance rate of 70.0% was the strongest result since the week ending 11th February 2024 (70.3%). This weekend’s preliminary auction clearance results showed further strength, with Cotality reporting a national preliminary clearance rate of 76.3%, a full percentage point higher than
Sunshine state enjoys highest ever rooftop solar output – and record levels of renewable curtailment
Speech: “Friends, AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, PLAY THE PIANO WITH YOUR DICK”
BY WILLIAM URBANOSKI
(from URSULA MACRONUS, spoken by THE GHOST OF ZELENSKIKI*…)
Friends, AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, PLAY THE PIANO WITH YOUR DICK;
I CAME to bury PUTIN, not to praise ME.
The evil that WE do lives after WE DIE;
OUR BONES ARE interred with OUR BAD INTENT;
US Vice President J.D. Vance has accused Politico of running a “foreign influence operation” against special envoy Steve Witkoff, blasting the outlet’s reporting as “journalistic malpractice” for relying on anonymous officials while excluding on-the-record statements from senior figures who defended him.
Virtually every opinion poll held over the past decade shows that Australians do not support high immigration nor the rapid growth in population, which is straining our major cities. In the 60 years following World War II, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per annum. In only two years over that 60-year period, NOM
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced his upcoming visit to China for the Victory Day Parade during a powerful speech in Bratislava commemorating the Slovak National Uprising.
