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The Tally Room Friday, March 14, 2025 - 14:39 Source

Over the last few years I have had the privilege of making submissions and then appearing before parliamentary inquiries reviewing the conduct of the most recent federal election and the most recent state elections in New South Wales and Victoria.

Each of these inquiries are a standard practice following every general election, and are conducted by a standing joint committee dedicated to electoral matters. In NSW and federally it is called the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters (JSCEM), and in Victoria it is called the Electoral Matters Committee.

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Renew Economy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 14:39 Source
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Your Democracy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 13:05 Source

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The End Of Ukraine's KURSK Adventure Causes Hysteria In The West

 

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Statistics New Zealand released net migration data for January, showing that annual net permanent and long-term (PLT) migrant inflows declined to 32,471, continuing the declining annual trajectory. This is just above the post-2000 historical averages (30,000) but is well below the 135,500 October 2023 year peak. Annual arrivals have stabilised but annual departures hit record

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 12:30 Source

It is one of those marvels of the globe economy. Every so often a great and powerful friend does to us what we should have done ourselves long ago. AFR. Australia’s biggest universities have accused the Trump administration of foreign influence and asked the Albanese government to intervene after local researchers who receive US funding

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Renew Economy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 12:09 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 12:00 Source

CoreLogic’s latest monthly house price report shows that Melbourne is now the cheapest major capital city housing market with a median price of $772,561 as of 28 February 2025. Melbourne’s relative affordability follows a value gain of only 8.2% over the past five years, versus a 38.9% increase nationally. Melbourne-based real estate agent Adam Welling

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 11:30 Source

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its estimated count of Australia’s dwelling stock as of Q4 2024. According to the ABS, the number of dwellings in Australia increased by 168,000 in 2024, up from 157,300 in 2023. The Albanese government’s housing target commenced on 1 July 2024 and aims to build 240,000 homes annually

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 11:00 Source

The Q4 2024 national accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggested that households remained in recession. Real per capita household consumption declined for a record eighth consecutive quarter. This followed a record 8% decline in real per capita household disposable income. On Thursday, CBA released its Household Spending Insights (HSI) for February, which

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xkcd.com Friday, March 14, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 10:30 Source

I posted two charts on Thursday showing the monumental task of transitioning Australia off fossil fuels. According to the federal government’s 2024 Australian Energy Update, only 9.4% of Australia’s energy consumption in FY2023 was from renewable sources. The breakdown of energy consumption by fuel source was as follows as of FY2023: Coal: 25.9% Oil: 38.9%

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 10:00 Source

I have long argued that RIO’s treasonous Simandou mine is the Pilbara and QLD killer via crashing iron roe and coking prices. Increasingly, it is also a plain and simple killer of human beings. 13 worker deaths reported at Simandou since June 2023, sources and documents say Some safety guidelines not implemented, according to sources

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 09:45 Source

This isn’t a debate, it is monkey’s throwing poop at each other from pre-determined political positions. News. Hundreds of thousands of householders facing power bill price hikes of up to $200 a year are set to secure more cost-of-living relief in the March budget. But the energy rebate move, which is expected to be unveiled

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 09:30 Source

The Market Ear technicals still say buy! Inverse fear correction VIX is getting “sick” of the SPX move lower. Source: Refinitiv VVIX definitely not buying it VIX is muted, but VVIX is even more muted. Volatility markets showing green shoots of hope? Source: Refinitiv 12th of March = low point & turning point That’s it

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Your Democracy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 09:27 Source

The Two Sessions, part of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, held last week at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, were a pretty serious deal.

Not only because the sessions set the framework for Beijing to confront serious economic challenges ahead.

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 09:00 Source

Wall Street tumbled further overnight as the Fat Fuhrer again showed his exemplary trade making deals with a blustery response to the EU counter tariff schemes, all the while insulting the Irish PM to his face and giving short sellers a great opportunity to dump tech stocks. The USD is still somewhat mixed following the

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 08:30 Source

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has pushed back against caps on international students, claiming such students are “as economic assets to be treasured, not as a problem to be capped”. “I think that our world-class universities are an immense economic asset to NSW. That is the reason why we are seeing an explosion in emerging tech

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Renew Economy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 08:00 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 07:26 Source

DXY is bank. Overcooked EUR in reverse. AUD went down with the ship. Led boots are made for stability. Oil down, gold up. Copper is the new gold. Miners are not. Nor EM. In better news for stock bulls, junk is breaking down. Yields fell too. The US PPI was soft. There’s still no sign

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Renew Economy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 06:43 Source
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Your Democracy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 05:09 Source

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Your Democracy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 04:57 Source

Female pigs may be the "factories" of feral populations, but a new study suggests male pigs are the disease "super spreaders".

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Your Democracy Friday, March 14, 2025 - 04:46 Source

The Prince of Wales will make his first visit to Estonia at the end of next week to meet British troops providing a deterrent to Russian aggression in the region.

Prince William will travel in his role as colonel-in-chief of the Mercian Regiment to learn more about how British troops are bolstering Nato's eastern flank, Kensington Palace said.

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 14, 2025 - 00:05 Source

On Wednesday, I posted charts showing the record decline in Australian real per capita household disposable income. Annual real per capita household disposable income fell for a record tenth consecutive quarter, down 8.1% from the Q2 2022 peak. The magnitude of this decline is illustrated in the following chart, which compares the current episode against

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 17:30 Source

Asian share markets are somewhat mixed yet again traders try to decipher where the battle lines are being drawn in the ongoing trade wars started by the increasingly isolated USA. The USD is trying to fight back but is seeing continued weakness against Euro and Pound Sterling with a mild bounceback in Yen this afternoon,

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Cheeseburger Gothic Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 16:08 Source

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Prosper Australia Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 14:55 Source

Prosper Australia was proud to join with Per Capita and a host of other organisations across the community sector in presenting the 2025 Community Tax Summit. Held in the richly historic Trades Hall, the Community Tax Summit was a two-day conference that brought together researchers, advocates, people with lived experience, and economists to examine how […]

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