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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 12:48 Source

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released jobs vacancy data for the three months to February, which shows that total job vacancies fell by 6.1% from November 2023. It was the seventh quarterly drop in a row, and job vacancies are now 23.5% lower than they were at their peak in May 2022. Separate

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 12:20 Source

The poor run of consumer data continues with the value of Australian retail sales growing only 0.3% in February, missing economists’ expectations of a 0.4% increase: Retail sales grew by only 1.6% year-on-year, well below the circa 2.5% population growth and 3.4% CPI inflation. The soft result came despite the stimulus from the Taylor Swift

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 12:05 Source

Heads up, everyone! Due to the holiday, our live podcast will be postponed. Don’t worry, though! We’ve got you covered with a special replay of one of our favourite episodes. Stay tuned and enjoy the throwback! Get ready to supercharge your investment knowledge! Dive into ‘Megatrends 2024’ where the Nucleus Wealth Team looked at the

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 11:30 Source

If you want a textbook example of how Australia has entered the Twilight Zone on housing, look no further than the below gaslighting from The ABC celebrating the fact that a professional occupational therapist has been forced to rent a micro apartment in Marrickville, Sydney: Walking into her new studio apartment for the first time,

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 11:00 Source

By Stephen Saunders Dominating “Huge Australia” stakeholders are a diverse lot. United however, by false immigration narratives that railroad voters. It is extremely difficult to counter in woke Australia.  In late 2022, the Treasury held the Jobs and Skills Summit, which featured 140 handpicked participants for Big (now Huge) Australia. No dissidents were allowed. Federal

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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 10:54 Source

The UN Security Council presents one of the great contradictions of power in the international system. On the one hand vested with enormous latitude in order to preserve international peace and security, it remains checked, limited and, it can be argued, crippled by an all too regular use of the veto by members of the…

The post Distinctions Without Difference: The Security Council on Gaza Passes appeared first on The AIM Network.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 10:40 Source

By Callen Sorensen Karklis   Many Australians are heard saying that they’re feeling the pinch, especially at the checkouts! Gone are the days of Australia being the lucky country! Australia is well and truly amid a crippling cost of living and housing crisis because of excessive greed and bad policy. As Dorothy says in the Wizard…

The post How the supermarkets lost their way in Oz appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 10:31 Source

Russia rejects US sea annexations

American plans would violate international law, Moscow has said

Moscow does not recognize Washington’s attempt to illegally claim over a million square kilometers of maritime territory, including in the Arctic and the Bering Sea, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 10:30 Source

Earlier this month, CoreLogic reported that rental growth had reaccelerated, with advertised rents climbing by 0.9% in February, the highest reading since March last year. This re-acceleration also saw the rolling quarterly change in rents rise to 2.4%, the highest since May last year. On Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its monthly

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 10:00 Source

CBA’s head of Australian economics, Gareth Aird, has released a research note explaining why the latest unemployment print of 3.7% is way out of kilter with the economy. Aird expects the nation’s unemployment rate to rise over 2024 to 4.5% by year’s end, which would be 0.2% higher than the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA)

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The Tally Room Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 09:30 Source

There’s been a lot of discussion comparing the recent City of Brisbane council election to the 2022 federal election. Both elections saw a high Greens vote. At the federal election, the Greens won three seats in the inner city of Brisbane, something which exceeded expectations. Expectations were higher at the council election, with talk of the Greens winning up to six wards. The Greens did gain a swing, and won a second ward, but the eventual results didn’t quite meet expectations.

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MacroBusiness Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 09:30 Source

Today heralds a new day in Labor’s energy meltdown. Albo will travel to the Hunter: Anthony Albanese will launch a six-week Made-in-Australia pre-budget campaign in the coal­mining Hunter region of NSW, where he will announce a $1bn ­investment in the Solar Sunshot program to claim a bigger stake in global solar manufacturing supply chains. The Australian

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