Monday Message Board
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
Trump’s new tariff unshock
The US Supreme Court ruled on February 22, 2026, that Donald Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act’s tariffs were invalid. This includes the “reciprocal” tariffs and those imposed on Canada, China, Mexico, and other countries under different emergency declarations. Not long after the decision, President Trump announced a 10% “global tariff” under Section 122. But
the new rex....
Too often I dream
Our lousy world leaders
Spirited from the ice cream
But to the world’s horrors
Replacement would be
Stung evermore by the bee
Imagine Rubio Hegseth or Vance
Taking over the Donald’s trance
Spinning the macabre dance
Of a debauched Epstein stance
Angus Taylor, the clock is ticking
With the resignation of former Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley from federal parliament, the newly minted leadership of Angus Taylor has been well and truly thrown in at the deep end. Following Ley’s resignation, there will be a byelection in her former seat of Farrer. Once, it was a blue ribbon safe seat for the
gone fishing....
Only Parliamentary nerds noticed. One such nerd Rex Patrick noticed and reports on a transparency dummy spit by Labor on the floor of the Senate.
Formal Business
preposterous colonial continuum....
a trumpian reverse gear or is everything doomed?.....
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years....
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
The RBA is under extreme pressure to hike again
Thursday’s labour force data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has put the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) under more pressure to hike interest rates. Australia’s headline unemployment rate remained at 4.1% in January amid solid employment growth of 17,800. The number of hours worked also rose by a solid 0.6% in January. As
The UK has just thrown its weight behind community energy. Australia should too
Last week, the UK committed up to £1 billion to community and local energy, with an ambition that by 2030, every community will have the opportunity to own an energy project. Australia should take notice.
Huge Top End solar and battery project drops court bid to remove native title claims
