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Merchant.adventurers.of.london · DeepT Nov 25 Australian Inflation Interest Rates and the Need for Economic Policy reform As the Australian economy staggers towards Christmas 2025 with cost of living and energy pressures still hammering the electorate, Deep T and Gunnamatta discuss the dynamics surrounding current scope for the RBA to cut interest rates. Over about 45

The Netherlands once again finds itself at a political crossroads. After years of turbulence and ideological fragmentation, the liberal-centrist party D66 (Democraten 66), led by Rob Jetten, scored a narrow yet striking victory compared with the previous election, rising from nine seats in 2023 to twenty-six in the 2025 snap election.

As Geert Wilders’ Far Right Stumbles, Can Rob Jetten’s Progressive Liberals Rebuild the Dutch Centre?

The toxic roots of China-phobia are deeply embedded in modern Australia’s cultural history. It has a firm grip on the minds of many of Australia’s policy wonks, politicians, media commentators, and the general public.

Today it is being fanned by security hawks in the foreign policy domain who are desperately committed to the quixotic (mis)alliance with the US.

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has denounced the US strikes on alleged cartel vessels in the Caribbean Sea as the Pentagon announced a new operation to fight drug traffickers.

A sea of read across Asian stock markets in response to the selloff on Wall Street as the premium for pricing in the re-start of the US federal government is being overshadowed by political events, namely a probable war in central America. Operation “Big Distraction” I think it’s called? Currency markets appear nonchalant however with

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Duelling queues snake out from the Australian and Turkish pavilions at COP30; one for tea and Turkish delight, the other for coffee.

In the second last line of the RBA’s exhaustive forecasts out to December 2027 was their projection for real wage growth in year-on-year terms at 6-month intervals. According to an analysis from Greg Jericho, the policy director at the Centre for Future Work, what they have projected is effectively two separate recessions for real wages

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Why are wrongful dismissal claims soaring?…Everyone has a theory. A weakening job market. Artificial intelligence-assisted applications. Greater media attention on the cases leading to greater worker awareness of their rights. Did something break in people’s attitudes during the pandemic that contributed to the increase? Has working from home done something to curdle workplace relationships? A

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Proponent’s commitments to benefit-sharing from big wind, solar and battery projects backed by government revealed in new resource

Canberra is on a charge for the media moguls. Facebook owner Meta would be liable to pay the Australian Taxation Office more than $112 million a year if it fails to strike commercial deals with local publishers under new laws aimed at forcing recalcitrant social media platforms to pay for news. But the tax, which

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