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The Australian Independent Media Network Monday, March 25, 2024 - 09:13 Source

By James Moore   There are only 1500 people living in Brooklyn, Iowa, situated along the old transcontinental route of U.S. Highway 6 and north of Interstate 80, east of Des Moines. Calling itself a “community of flags,” Brooklyn does not have a profile that might suggest violent crime. Mollie Tibbetts certainly would have had no…

The post The Art of Hypocrisy appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 09:00 Source

Friday night was a consolidation session for risk markets as they digested all the interest rate meetings of the week, with US bond yields falling slightly while the USD held sway over the currency majors. Wall Street stumbled a little bit but held on to their gains while European stocks were all over the place

The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Monday, March 25, 2024 - 09:00 Source

A cabal of neo-conservative, anti-China politicians who call themselves the Wolverines, a nod to the 1980s Patrick Swayze movie Red Dawn, have just spread their network to Tasmania, thanks to last night’s election of Eric Abetz, and are ramping up their presence in WA. 

Robert Barwick reports. 

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 08:30 Source

The Senate’s inquiry into the retirement system has been extended for 12 months and will now run until June 2025. The inquiry’s terms of reference have also been expanded, and it will consider how superannuation can be used to increase home ownership. The inquiry is chaired by Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg, who contends that Australians

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Your Democracy Monday, March 25, 2024 - 08:22 Source

PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members. 

 

By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost 

 

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Your Democracy Monday, March 25, 2024 - 06:54 Source

Now is the time for talks that will bring us closer to peace and away from a deadly and destructive war with no end in sight.

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 06:31 Source

Labor is well on its way to becoming a minor party: But head-to-head it’s still OK: Everybody hates Albo and The Bollard: It’s worst versus worsterer.

The post Labor sinks in Newspoll appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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John Quiggin Monday, March 25, 2024 - 06:29 Source

Elections over the last week have seen some pretty good outcomes for the Greens and some very bad outcomes for both Labor and the LNP.

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John Quiggin Monday, March 25, 2024 - 06:28 Source

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.

I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 00:21 Source

This is a pretty cowardly effort by Peter Hartcher: On the day this week that we learnt Australia’s population had grown faster than at any time since 1952, when Bob Menzies was prime minister and the British were setting off their first nuclear test in Australian territory, Pauline Hanson stood up in the Senate to

The post Time to burst the Pauline Hanson bubble appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Monday, March 25, 2024 - 00:05 Source

Domain claims that dramatically shrinking the lot sizes of Australian homes would improve affordability. “Housing will become more accessible to more people as they can buy a smaller block but for a lower overall price”, said Nicola Powell, Domain’s chief of research and economics. “The cost of land is the major component in a house

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The Tally Room Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 11:57 Source

In this post I’m going to run through each seat in depth, explaining who I think has won and which seats are in play.

To summarise, at the moment I have 15 Liberals, 10 Labor, 5 Greens, 3 JLN and two independents in the lead.

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Cheeseburger Gothic Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 11:02 Source

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