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Your Democracy
Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 18:31
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The Government has just announced a spend of $1.7B on new ‘Ghost Shark’ underwater drones. But there appears to be more stealth in the budget than there is in the capability. Former submariner Rex Patrick reports. Pete Quinn must be pretty happy.
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THE BLOT REPORT
Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 16:36
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In June, I wrote a piece which suggested that when Trump sent in the National Guard to Los Angeles, he was hoping that violence would flare up, so that he could use it much as the nazis used the Reichstag Fire in February, 1933. The Nazis used this as an excuse to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree to suspend the right to assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other constitutional protections, including all restraints on police investigations. The decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, to dissolve political organisations, and to confiscate private property. |
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MacroBusiness
Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 14:00
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By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA The CommBank Household Spending Insights index recorded its sixth consecutive month of gains, lifting by 0.3% in August to be 5.0% higher annually. Business survey data reinforced our view that the Australian economy is recovering. Consumer sentiment was weaker in September after a strong result in August. Offshore, The post The economic week ahead appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 10:21
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Leading Sydney auctioneer and agent Tom Panos has issued a warning for Australian home buyers. Panos believes that Australia’s property market is the hottest it has been since the Covid boom and will only get worse once the Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers comes into effect next month. In his weekly The post Insider: “Hot” property market will “only get worse for buyers” appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 05:55
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Several days after its absurd endorsement of renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War and calling for a more aggressive posture against Russia’s war with Ukraine, the Washington Post stated that signing a follow-on to the New START Treaty was “reckless.” New START is actually the last remaining nuclear arms-control treaty between the United State and Russia and it is due to expire in February 2026.
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Your Democracy
Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 05:00
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Your Democracy
Sunday, September 14, 2025 - 04:44
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We’ll look back on 2024 as the year we sailed passed 1.5. Marine heatwaves in 2024 and 2025 seriously damaged the Great Barrier Reef, again. Insufficient land and money to create enough new forests to offset carbon emissions. Iceland sends a letter to the future. We’re getting hotter faster and are already past 1.5oC
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The Tally Room
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 18:00
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6:00 – Polls have just closed in the Kiama by-election. This state seat is on the south coast of New South Wales, and was vacated by Gareth Ward shortly before he was expected to be expelled from the Legislative Assembly after his conviction and expected sentencing. Results should start to come in before 7pm tonight. I’ll be live-blogging here. In the meantime, you can read my guide to the by-election here. |
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Your Democracy
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 17:29
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Prince Harry has made a surprise visit to Kyiv at the invitation of the Ukrainian government, saying he wants to do "everything possible" to support the recovery of thousands of servicemen seriously injured in the war. |
Your Democracy
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 08:04
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State lying is not an accident of politics: it is its mother tongue. Brutal dictatorship attacks the body, but insidious tyranny targets the mind and the means of survival. One can escape the blows; one does not always recover from a lifetime spent pretending to believe in them.
The Empire of Lies: A Success Story
by Azzedine Kaamil Aït-Ameur
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Renew Economy
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 07:57
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Your Democracy
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 07:48
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius requested 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) more over the next two years for military support to Ukraine than was approved by the German government, German newspaper Bild reported on Friday. Due to this disagreement, planned contracts with the Ukrainian defense industry must now be suspended, and support measures for the Ukrainian armed forces will have to be partially canceled or reduced, the report said. |
A “shameful betrayal” and a “climate fail:” Fury greets Labor’s approval of giant fossil gas project |
Your Democracy
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 06:40
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The Albanese Government’s proposed changes to Freedom of Information laws will deny access to any document of the government that involves controversy. FOI guru Rex Patrick explains. Just how fearless is advice that the author fears the public will see?
No controversy, please. We are the Aussie Government! by Rex Patrick
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John Quiggin
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 06:40
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I’m working on a first draft of a book arguing against pro-natalism (more precisely, that we shouldn’t be concerned about below-replacement fertility). That entails digging into lots of literature with which I’m not very familiar and I’ve started using OpenAI’s Deep Research as a tool. |
Your Democracy
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 05:55
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In reshaping the world for prosperity, humanity has undermined the very foundations of progress. So warns the latest study from the World Bank Group, entitled Reboot development: the economics of a liveable planet.
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 00:05
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International Reading: Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: ‘We need you, and we miss you’ – Fortune Hundreds of scared Arkansas farmers gathered to ask Trump for help — and plead with President to show ‘fruit’ of his love. What do they expect? – Money Wise The post Weekend reading and media appearances appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 22:47
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There is a lot of opinions about “Russia invading Poland with drones”… |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 18:43
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AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225 The post Macro Afternoon: 12 September 2025 appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 15:10
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 14:28
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 14:01
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MacroBusiness
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 14:00
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The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) interest rate cuts alongside the imminent introduction of the Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers have triggered a sharp uptick in Australian home prices. Cotality’s daily dwelling values index has reported the strongest 28-day growth since March 2024, with values across the five major capital cities The post Australia’s house price upswing gathers steam appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 13:52
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Renew Economy
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 13:01
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MacroBusiness
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 13:00
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CBA released its monthly Household Spending Insights (HSI), which rose by 0.3% in August and follows a 0.7% lift in July and a 0.5% increase in May and June. The following chart from Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro plots the uptrend in the HSI over recent months and confirms the stronger household consumption reported in The post Energy price shock lands on households appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 12:00
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The federal government is widely tipped to announce its 2035 emissions reduction target next week, ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. The Labor Environment Action Network’s new co-convener Louise Crawford says the 2035 target will provide an opportunity for Australia to demonstrate “global leadership” on the world stage. Crawford The post Australia: a global leader of energy idiocy appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 11:00
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Statistics New Zealand this week released migration data, which showed that only 13,066 net overseas migrants landed in New Zealand in the year to July. This was well below the decade average of 49,000 and more than 120,000 lower than the late 2023 peak. The decline in net overseas migration has been driven by the The post Fed up Kiwis flee to Australia appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 10:56
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Washington has dismantled its decades-long strategy of balancing competing regional powers in West Asia, opting instead to destabilize the region through its full-spectrum military, diplomatic, and intelligence backing of the Israeli occupation state. Where the post-9/11 years were defined by US-led regime change and nation-building, today's strategy is defined by state-breaking and governance erosion. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 10:00
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I have consistently cautioned that the state and federal governments’ plans to blanket our cities with high-rise apartments will not improve housing affordability. The reason is simple: it is too expensive to construct apartments. As a result, they cannot be delivered at a reasonable cost to buyers. Urbis highlighted the excessive cost of apartment development, The post Building housing in Australia is too expensive appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
