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The Dutton-led Coalition is staring down a massive election defeat, with the latest polling from Roy Morgan showing Labor’s two-party preferred vote widening to 55.5% (up 1%) against the Coalition’s 44.5%. The following chart plots recent polling from various sources and shows Labor’s lead widening as the election date approaches. Primary support for Labor also

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The Trump Administration is the best thing that has happened to the incumbent Liberal government of Canada. Polling conducted in early January suggested that the Liberal Party could win as few as 21 seats in the 338-seat parliament at this year’s election. Canadians had endured a decade-long decline in their living standards. Per capita GDP

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Time for more yawnzooka as Chinese property falls into a tariff hole. Yawnulus fading. Sales too. Inventory still drawing. As completions keep falling. Not much good here. More yawnulus incoming. And it had better hurry. Morgan Stanley. Our Asia Research team’s latest AlphaWise survey of ~2,000 consumers in China (conducted April 8-11, immediately after the

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Origin says grid access win will trigger a $175m final payment for giant wind project, while Spark reveals Danish giant CIP is involved in its Dinawan hub.

Aussie retail sales have been structurally weak, falling in per capita terms over the past two years. Discretionary ‘brick-and-mortar’ retailers have suffered the most, losing market share to online giants such as Amazon, Temu, and Shein. Amazon joined the Australian market in December 2017 and has quickly expanded its presence. Amazon Prime offers competitive pricing

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Renewables industry reels in wake of Donald Trump’s extraordinary intervention, ordering construction of a fully permitted and shovel ready offshore wind project to be "stopped cold."

The Climate Council claims that Australians are paying $30 billion more on insurance than they were a decade ago, while premiums have risen at more than twice the average rate of inflation over that time. Insurance companies have incurred losses averaging $4.5 billion a year over the past five years due to extreme weather events,

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Australia offers some of the world’s most generous post-study work rights for international students, as illustrated in the table below. These generous post-study work rights are coveted by “students” from South Asia, who value post-study work rights and opportunities for permanent residency above most other factors. Australia has experienced an explosion in graduate (485) visa

While there is a range of Australian war poetry, much of the poetry associated with Anzac Day is not Australian.

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The greenback has hit a three-year low while gold soars past $3,500 per ounce. Things aren’t looking good, experts say.

Trump, Tariffs and Trust: The dollar's slide "reflects Trump’s meddling in Fed policy via tariffs and eroding trust in the US financial system,” Paul Goncharoff, financial analyst and general director of Goncharoff LLC, tells Sputnik.

Four huge wind, solar and battery projects win grid access in new renewable zone, but the biggest talking point could be the lower capacity offered.

This week, newspapers around the world received reports and signed documents from South Africa. The reports said that, in 1975, Israel agreed to sell South Africa nuclear weapons. South Africa then released an arms agreement signed by current Israeli President Shimon Peres. This is the document “heard round the world.”