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Ben is joined by William Bowe from the Poll Bludger to discuss the latest Tasmanian state polls and go through Tasmania’s five electorates one by one, discussing the race and possible winners in each division.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose “severe” tariffs of up to 100% on Russia’s trading partners unless a deal is reached to end the Ukraine conflict within 50 days.

Trump issued the warning on Monday during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office.

“We’re very, very unhappy – I am – with [Russia], and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in about 50 days,” he stated.

An uneasy start to the trading week as markets react to further bullying on trade from the Trump regime, with distracting letters sent to the EU and Mexico over the weekend. The USD was up slightly on the weekend gap before losing those gains later in the session as the EU indicated it will just

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Researchers in Darwin added First Nations seasonal calendars to solar irradiance forecasting and came up with some vastly improved results.

The financial year-end, 30 June, was volatile. After all was said and done, our international fund finished up over 18%, and our Australian fund finished up over 15%. Our tactical growth finished up over 12%. All of our funds look attractive relative to their benchmarks, especially as they were all significantly less volatile than the

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Bloomberg is out this week talking about the “once-in-a-generation trade” in the copper market: The Aug. 1 deadline for Trump’s 50% copper tariffs signals the endgame for the most profitable trade that industry veterans say they have ever seen… And the traders were only getting started. Trump’s probe fired the starting gun on a massive movement

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One could write an entire book on all the various drivers of Australian economic ruin. Today we will be taking the usual data-driven approach to examine the big three, in my view. Housing Is The Economy Back at the dawn of the 1990s, business lending was getting on for two-thirds of all outstanding bank lending

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As usual, everybody is asking the wrong question. AFR. The Trump administration’s undersecretary for policy, Elbridge Colby, is already leading a review into the AUKUS agreement between Australia, the US and the United Kingdom, and increasingly pushing for firmer commitments about how nuclear submarines would be used. Citing five sources, the Financial Times reported that Colby had asked Australia and

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When the sun set on 2023, Canada had one of the highest migration rates in the world, welcoming over 1.24 million new migrants over the calendar year, or 3.2% of the population. This left Canada ranked number 11 on the World Bank’s list of nations by population growth for 2023, sandwiched between various nations in

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This economy is not growing at 5% in anybody’s mind except for the CCP’s and its menagerie of grovellers. Property is stuffed. Prices are still falling. Cars are doing better on the cash-for-clunkers. This was true of consumption more broadly, but much of that is over now after the vouchers were pulled. But exports are

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I was having breakfast with a mate this morning who had just started watching Foundation on Apple TV, and I warned him that the first series was a bit ordinary but that he should stick with it because it got so much better in the later series.

I don't know how we segued from that to Blade Runner but I think we were talking about unfilmable books. Rob told me something I’d never known. Blade Runner was not a title Ridley Scott came up with because the original Philip K Dick story, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? would’ve been a box office disaster.