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MacroBusiness Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 00:10 Source

Australia’s property obsession is slowly strangling the nation’s economy. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the total value of Australia’s housing stock reached a record high of $11,032.2 billion at the end of 2024, with the average home valued at $976,800. CoreLogic’s latest monthly chart pack valued Australia’s housing stock at $11.3 trillion as

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Club Troppo Monday, April 21, 2025 - 17:38 Source

Most credible researchers believe immigration affects house prices. The questions are: how muchs, and at what cost?

Peter Dutton’s Opposition has promised to cut Australian immigration by a quarter “to tackle the housing crisis“.

Is migration is putting pressure on housing prices? And will a 25 per cent migration cut relieve that pressure?

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Your Democracy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 15:49 Source

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Ukraine’s Blatant Power Play: 5 Shocking Demands That Could Drag Germany into War! | TN World

 

An explosive open letter from a top Ukrainian diplomat demands Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, immediately arm Ukraine with Taurus missiles and billions in aid—risking direct confrontation with Moscow and dragging Berlin deeper into war.

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Your Democracy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 15:20 Source

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Renew Economy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 12:52 Source
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Your Democracy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 12:20 Source

'Hopefully' Russia and Ukraine 'will make a deal this week,' says US President Trump

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that "hopefully" a deal can be struck "this week" without specifying what that arrangement would entail.

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xkcd.com Monday, April 21, 2025 - 10:00 Source

'Wow, that must be why you swallow so many of them per year!' 'No, that's spiders. You swallow WAY more ants.'

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The Tally Room Monday, April 21, 2025 - 09:30 Source

I have referenced the concept of “personal vote” and “sophomore surge” quite a few times during this campaign, and in the past, but I thought it would be useful to actually collect data and analyse how much of an effect we can detect from the swings data.

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John Quiggin Monday, April 21, 2025 - 09:27 Source

Having finished off the Easter eggs (or bunnies/bilbies) and Hot Cross Buns (though these are a year-round thing now), I ought to be turning attention back to what’s happening in the world. But that’s too depressing to look at, a view our aspiring leaders have endorsed by resolutely ignoring anything more geopolitical than the price of petrol.

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John Quiggin Monday, April 21, 2025 - 09:26 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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Renew Economy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 08:45 Source
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Your Democracy Monday, April 21, 2025 - 07:38 Source

Anthony Albanese has claimed victory in Australia’s “Vegemite-gate” trade stoush with Canada, which has relented and allowed a Toronto-based cafe owner to sell the spread after initially ruling it did not comply with local food laws.

Speaking at a press conference in Sydney on Saturday morning, holding up a jar of Vegemite, the prime minister declared he had achieved a “win for Australian industry” after his government’s discussions with the Canadian government.

 

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MacroBusiness Monday, April 21, 2025 - 00:10 Source

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is famously bad at forecasting Australian wage growth. For the past 15 years, the RBA’s Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) has routinely forecast stronger wage growth than has occurred. The RBA continues to make the same mistakes, with Australian wage growth falling more than projected despite the nation’s low

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Club Troppo Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 21:39 Source

Many people think that if Medicare works for getting sick, it must also work for dental and anxiety and ADHD and various other types of problems.That isn’t necessarily the case.One big problem for any sort of health intervention is the interested carer. They have an incentive to suggest you need treatment.In the case of classic sickness, overtreatment has been restrained through various mechanisms.

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 20:24 Source

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THE BLOT REPORT Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 20:19 Source
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MacroBusiness Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 09:40 Source

What a difference an election makes! DXY is in free fall. EUR surging. AUD follows EUR and is threatening a 2025 breakout. Concrete boots are stable. Gold is in heaven. Nobody needs an oil rally. Metals ex-copper are signaling much weaker growth. Big miner’s big bear is intact. EM meh. Junk skunk. Yields have at

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 09:04 Source

If you think the Russian army's numerous battlefield victories are a clear sign that the war is nearing its end, you are sorely mistaken. As I said earlier, the closer Russia gets to victory in this conflict, the more dangerous Ukraine and its Western backers become.

 

Russia deploys world's most powerful and fastest 'annihilation system'

by Borzzikman

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 07:36 Source

More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history, a new report says.

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 07:30 Source

The unplumbed depths of Peter Dutton cynical politics should be a matter of deep concern to genuine political conservatives across Australia. Whoever those people are (at present they appear to be in hiding), its time they distanced themselves from what the Liberal Party is becoming under Duttons leadership.

 

Allan Patience

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 06:12 Source

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz doesn’t officially take office until May 6, but that hasn’t stopped him from hitting the press circuit like it’s demolition day. Apparently, he’s got some lost time – and infrastructure – to make up for. 

 

Germany wants the UK to hold its hand while it starts WWIIIThe chancellor-in-waiting says he would commit to giving Kiev long-range missiles if London backs him

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 05:50 Source

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared an Easter truce in Ukraine, the Kremlin press service said Saturday, over three years after Moscow launched a full-scale offensive of the neighboring country.

The unilateral break in fighting is scheduled to last from Saturday evening until midnight on Sunday local time.

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MacroBusiness Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 04:12 Source

  Weird things happen.   At 2 o’clock in the morning on Easter Sunday a mate at the BBC beams me a question.  “Haven’t your mates been saying this for years?’ seconds before another Youtube video link is fed through.  This is it.     Within minutes another close mate a long way up the

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 22:01 Source

US President Donald Trump has said that Washington could abandon efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict if Moscow and Kiev don’t engage in negotiations. He added, however, the US still hopes to see the fighting come to an end.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump was asked to comment on remarks by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had suggested that the White House could walk away from efforts to broker a settlement.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 20:44 Source

      Australia & New Zealand       Europe       Asia   Americas …and the rest…

The post Easter 2025 Chartfest: 19 April 2025 appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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John Quiggin Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 18:00 Source

Back in November, when I concluded that Trump’s dictatorship was a fait accompli lots of readers thought I was going over the top. In retrospect, and with one exception, I was hopelessly over-optimistic. I imagined a trajectory similar to Orban’s Hungary, with a gradual squeeze on political opposition and civil society, playing out over years and multiple terms in office,.

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 12:57 Source

The Australia Institute is one of the country’s most influential public policy think tanks. Based in Canberra, we conduct high impact research that combines rigorous fact-driven material with cutting-edge communication strategies.

With your help, we're countering the spin of multinational gas companies. 

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Renew Economy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 08:12 Source
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New Politics Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 08:00 Source

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