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Casting a formal vote in a Tasmanian lower house election isn’t the easiest vote to cast, but in some ways it’s easier than it would be in other places.

Voters are required to number at least as many boxes as there are vacancies – that means that the required number of preferences increased from 5 in 2021 to 7 in 2024 – despite an attempt by Kevin Bonham to allow for savings provisions that would minimise informal rates.

Another poor US domestic economic print – this time the latest ISM services survey – sent Wall Street lower amid reaction to a rambling interview by Trump overnight espousing new off the cuff tariffs for pharmaceuticals and others. Neither side of the Atlantic liked the newsflow although European stocks eked out a small gain while

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The latest data from the Departments of Home Affairs and Education indicates that the Albanese government’s “crackdown” on the international education sector has had minimal impact. The Department of Home Affairs’ temporary visa data for Q2 2025 shows that there were 821,251 people residing in Australia on either a student or a graduate visa. This

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Review headed by Tim Nelson makes nine recommendations, including tenders for e energy, shaping and firm contracts, more transparency, and a focus on CER.

DXY is holding for now. AUD is licking its wounds. Lead boots bounced. Gold is firm, oil not. Metals are lacklustre. Mining bear intact. EM bounced. Junk toppy. Yields held the losses. Stocks fell anyway. I expect more AUD chaos for now. The market remains very short DXY, and such consensus trades often need long

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Since the turn of the century, Australian policymakers have attempted to pump housing demand via stimulatory demand-side policies. These policies have ultimately driven mortgage debt and house prices higher, resulting in structurally worse housing affordability. The latest federal election was another prime example of this policy folly, with both Labor and the Coalition promising further

A new wind project has emerged near Julia Creek in Queensland's outback, the latest in a string of proposals along the Copperstring transmission line.

There are a fair number of curious idiosyncrasies within the systems of royalty and aristocracy, but perhaps one of the most popular queries relates to the well-known phrase ‘a person of blue-blood’. 

But what does this curious phrase actually mean? 

What Does Blue Blood Mean?by Chancellor von Moritz

NSW remains Australia's biggest coal state, but not for long. And the start of a unique contract with what will be the world's most powerful battery has got everyone excited.

The US is having a grown-up jobs debate that would serve Australia well (or it would be if the Child President didn’t sack everybody he disliked). Goldman is typical. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will publish a preliminary estimate of the benchmark revision to March 2025 nonfarm payrolls on September 9th. We estimate a downward

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The news on inflation continues to improve, following the latest benign Q2 CPI print from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). On Monday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute (MI) monthly CPI gauge was released. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, quarterly trimmed mean inflation remained low in July, undershooting the ABS measure. On Fabo’s

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WA's main grid has a "connection-ready" pipeline of more than 12 gigawatts of renewable energy projects, the state-owned network company has revealed.