One feature of the recent Tasmanian state election result was a surprisingly small number of candidates reaching a quota on primary votes, despite the quota being lower than any election in the last quarter century.
Just four candidates reached a quota: the leaders of the Liberal, Labor and Greens parties, and deputy premier Michael Ferguson.
Now that I have the final figures (and have grabbed some older data) I have been able to track how this compares to past elections, and have found that 2024 was indeed a bit unique.
The Russians are coming — or coming back, better put.
As the November elections draw near, let us brace for another barrage of preposterous propaganda to the effect Russians are poisoning our minds with “disinformation,” “false narratives,” and all the other misnomers deployed when facts contradict liberal authoritarian orthodoxies.
The USD rebounded on more hawkish Fedspeak overnight, with Wall Street still unable to put runs on the board as inflation concerns linger. European stocks moved higher on more dovish speak from the ECB which will give Asian stock markets mixed signals on the open this morning. The Australian dollar retraced back to the 64
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The Albanese Government has declared a population war on Australians. It intends to substitute the existing population with cheap foreign labour from the Third World as swiftly as possible. The strategy’s beauty is twofold. It lowers the standards and costs of all public services, and the population accepts it because it is being debased so
DXY won’t go away: AUD is stuck at the bottom of its range: Anyone who thinks CNY is on its way to reserve currency status is not paying attention: Oil faded: But the Goldman-engineered copper scam is running full tilt: Miners weak: EM meh: Junk hope: No landing yields: Stocks are landing instead: Charlie McElligott
Government media funding supports the failing mainstream media (MSM) and right-wing advocacy groups like the Institute of Public Affairs.
The News Media Bargaining Code gifts $1b over four years from Google and Facebook mainly to Nine Network, Seven West Media, Guardian, and News Corp. The last two are foreign owned.
US President Joe Biden told an interviewer that he’d warned the Israeli government against attacking itself, in what appears to be the aging leader’s latest gaffe, and one that has again raised concerns over his mental state.
US-backed proposals to seize frozen Russian assets could undermine the international order, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde has cautioned. Her comments came during a meeting in Washington on Wednesday, where the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors were discussing the issue of using the immobilized assets of the Russian central bank to support Ukraine.
The geniuses at the RBA have turned their eye to Chinese steel, and, as usual, the outcome is a disaster: Weakness in the Chinese urban residential construction sector has persisted since 2021, and has significantly reduced the sector’s demand for steel. However, overall demand for steel has remained resilient due to recent growth in infrastructure
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The National Bank of Canada has derided the government’s mythical plan to build 3.87 million new homes by 2031. This target would require an average annual run rate of 550,000 housing starts per year, about double the record high of 270,000 units in 2021. National Bank of Canada notes, “we’re also going to need people
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Björn Höcke, the chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in the eastern state of Thuringia, stands accused of intentionally deploying a slogan used by the Nazi party's paramilitary wing in a speech at a campaign rally.
Asian stock markets are trying to rebound from a bad trading week so far following the escalation in conflict across the Middle East, with yet more hawkish Fedspeak overnight not helping risk sentiment . The USD remains strong against most of the undollars but had a small retracement while bond markets calmed down as well.
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