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Your Democracy
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 09:12
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The unnerving alliance between Big Tech and the second Trump administration goes much deeper than many in the public realize. What factors are motivating President Trump and Silicon Valley’s monumental investments in “artificial intelligence” infrastructure and the expanded integration of “AI” into military and governmental operating systems?
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 09:00
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From the Market Ear: AIQ at the most overbought levels since July 2024…just before markets crashed. The tech buy in Last week’s “notional net buying in global Info Tech was the largest in seven months and ranks in the 99th percentile on a 5-year lookback”. Soon enough… Everybody has been waiting for weak September… but The post AI mania has tech seriously overbought appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 08:00
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In the years since pandemic-driven stimulus and ‘revenge spending’ began to feed out of the economy in the September quarter of 2022, Australia’s economy has, in headline terms, continued to grow decently enough. It’s hardly been stellar, with the economy achieving cumulative growth of just 4.63% since the June quarter of 2022, but the ‘Lucky The post Australia – The lipstick on a pig economy appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 06:32
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A former Israel Defence Forces chief of staff says more than over 10% of Gaza’s population of approximately 2.2 million was killed or injured since October 2023. |
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Your Democracy
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 05:55
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China’s recent display of its newly acquired military might surprised not only international observers, but also its own seasoned diplomats. |
Prosper Australia
Monday, September 8, 2025 - 20:11
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Ross Gittins wins 2025 E.J. Craigie Writing Award for the best article reflecting the ideas of Henry George. Prosper Australia is pleased to announce Economics Editor for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Ross Gittins, as the recipient of the E.J. Craigie Writing Award for 2025 for his article: Productivity Commission wants our big mining companies to […] The post Esteemed economics journalist Ross Gittins wins 2025 E.J. Craigie Award first appeared on Prosper Australia. |
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Club Troppo
Friday, September 5, 2025 - 17:01
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I remember the shock of recognition I got reading liberal Raymond Aron’s critique of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. The ideal of a society in which each would choose his gods or his values cannot spread before individuals are educated to collective life. Hayek’s philosophy assumes, by definition, the results that the philosophers of the […] |
Prosper Australia
Monday, August 25, 2025 - 15:58
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The Economic Reform Roundtable is ostensibly all about productivity. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has argued that cutting red tape and speeding up approvals is the key to unlocking growth. It’s the old trickle-down idea made new again by Ezra Klein’s book Abundance: make it easier to build, and prosperity will follow. It’s an appealing story. But […] The post Fixing productivity needs more than deregulation — it needs tax reform first appeared on Prosper Australia. |
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Club Troppo
Friday, August 8, 2025 - 16:38
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I am about to break my indication that I am unlikely to post again until after Jen’s death. I am bored to death in this Regis joint filled with old codgers with assorted disabilities. How many I will write is … Continue reading → |
Club Troppo
Friday, August 8, 2025 - 14:53
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Troppo readers may be wondering why I haven’t been blogging lately, after making a comeback several months ago after a long absence. The reason is that my wife Jen is in hospital dying from ovarian cancer. It’s very distressing, both … Continue reading → |
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Club Troppo
Monday, August 4, 2025 - 18:04
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This is becoming a series. The point is that public figures now routinely refuse to engage with counter-arguments. I have another one not yet written about Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt who did not respond to three polite emails from me. The latest intellectual coward is Liz Allen, who is the go to pro-population growth demographer […] |
George Monbiot
Friday, August 1, 2025 - 17:42
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Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th July 2025 I packed a toothbrush, books and a notepad in a small rucksack, took my laptop from the house and hid it, gave my phone to a friend to look after and put a “bust card” (lawyers’ details and legal advice) in my back pocket. I wasn’t certain I would be arrested, but I wanted to be ready. Then I stepped, with other, much braver people into a legal labyrinth. |
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Prosper Australia
Thursday, July 31, 2025 - 11:47
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Summary To improve productivity Australia needs to shift taxes off work and enterprise and onto the economic rents from land, natural resources, and monopolies. This principle should be at the heart of any economic reform agenda. Income tax should be rebalanced to favour productive effort over unearned gains, beginning by scrapping CGT concessions. States should […] The post Economic Reform Roundtable submission first appeared on Prosper Australia. |
Prosper Australia
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 10:16
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Prosper Australia
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - 10:11
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New Politics
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 10:41
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Monday, July 14, 2025 - 12:49
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Prosper Australia
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 12:49
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Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 16:57
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George Monbiot
Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 16:57
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How “humour” opens the door to far right politics. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th July 2025 |
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Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 15:55
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George Monbiot
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 15:55
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Without resistance, a combination of new laws and new technologies of control will rush us towards dystopia. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th July 2025 No one can be trusted with power. Any government will oppress its people if not constantly and inventively challenged. And the task becomes ever-more urgent as new technologies of surveillance and control are developed. |
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 14:53
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George Monbiot
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 14:53
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Cynical operators seek to divide rural and urban people. But what we want is fundamentally the same. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th June 2025 |
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Prosper Australia
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 08:52
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New Politics
Saturday, July 5, 2025 - 08:00
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