|
MacroBusiness
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 06:10
Source
DXY is back on tariff talk. AUD was poleaxed on the same. Lead boots were made for sinking. Gold needs a bigger pullback. Oil needs to break down. Goldman has wrecked the world’s most important metal. Big miners into the pit. EM meh. Junk meh. Yields up. Stocks down. The Mad Man is back. Bloomberg. The post Australian dollar poleaxed as tariffs return appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
George Monbiot
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 23:06
Source
By defending the UK’s draconian anti-protest laws, Labour is laying the ground for an authoritarian government. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd February 2025 If the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing. |
|
Renew Economy
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 21:52
Source
|
Prosper Australia
Sunday, February 23, 2025 - 17:47
Source
Prosper Australia today expressed deep disappointment at the Victorian Government’s continued failure to implement value capture mechanisms in its recent upzoning announcements. By allowing landowners to reap windfall gains without returning a fair share to the community, the government has missed a vital opportunity to fund essential infrastructure and public services. |
|
George Monbiot
Friday, February 21, 2025 - 02:11
Source
Trump’s assaults on governance could trigger systemic collapse. Here’s how it might happen, and how we can prepare. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th February 2025 Though we might find it hard to imagine, we cannot now rule it out: the possibility of systemic collapse in the United States. The degradation of federal government by Donald Trump and Elon Musk could trigger a series of converging and compounding crises, leading to social, financial and industrial failure. |
George Monbiot
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 23:33
Source
This is how Labour’s war on regulations will stymie its own policies. It is irrational and self-destructive. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th February 2025 This might sound astonishing, but the UK government’s core programme now appears to be the same as Donald Trump’s: dismantling the administrative state. There’s less theatre, but the results could prove harder to contest. Absurd? Consider the evidence. |
|
Prosper Australia
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 09:54
Source
What could $27 billion fund if Commonwealth-state transfers were adjusted to bring revenue and expenses for each level of government closer to balance? |
Prosper Australia
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 09:05
Source
Over the past century and a half, politics and economics have evolved significantly in how we manage society. Yet, the core principle remains: every person born on this earth has a right to a share of its bounty. |
|
Prosper Australia
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 09:00
Source
The relationship between older, younger, and future Australians and our tax and spending priorities is based on an implicit generational bargain. Working age taxpayers support older and younger Australians and can expect the next generation to support them in the same way, and economic and social development will enable each successive generation to enjoy rising living standards. At the very least, we should not leave the next generation worse off. |
George Monbiot
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 22:00
Source
The UK government’s pursuit of growth at all costs hands this country to predatory capital. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th January 2025 I can scarcely believe I’m writing this, but it’s hard to dodge the conclusion. After 14 years of environmental vandalism, it might have seemed impossible for Labour to offer anything but improvement. But on green issues, this government is worse than the Tories. |
|
George Monbiot
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 20:30
Source
Labour’s housing strategy makes a dysfunctional system bigger. We need systemic change. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th January 2025 Build baby, build. That’s about the intellectual limit of the government’s housing strategy. Millions are under-housed, so let’s “bulldoze” the planning system and build more homes. But it’s not nearly so simple. |
Club Troppo
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 13:49
Source
As part of a new policy, I’m going to post stuff I’ve published on my substack here where it’s substantial enough, or where I want to be able to link to it without the distraction of all the other stuff I pack into my weekly substack digest. |
|
Club Troppo
Sunday, January 26, 2025 - 15:31
Source
|
Monday, January 20, 2025 - 19:20
|
|
George Monbiot
Monday, January 20, 2025 - 19:20
Source
Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th January 2025 |
Friday, January 3, 2025 - 00:05
|
|
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 - 19:41
|
Club Troppo
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 - 19:41
Source
What if we held an Australian broadband crisis and nobody came? That’s pretty much what happened in Australian broadband policy over the decade to 2025. Governments, forecasters and the media can all learn lessons from this episode. |
|
Friday, December 27, 2024 - 03:05
It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with prior year-in-reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards given out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule. As a reminder, the awards are worth nothing. The only value is fifteen seconds of fleeting fame on this blog post. |
Friday, December 27, 2024 - 03:05
|
|
Digitopoly
Friday, December 27, 2024 - 03:05
Source
It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with prior year-in-reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards given out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule. As a reminder, the awards are worth nothing. The only value is fifteen seconds of fleeting fame on this blog post. |
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 15:59
|
|
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 15:59
|
The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 15:59
Source
Plan International Australia Media Release December 26 marks 20 years since the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which claimed the lives of 230,000 people and [...] |
|
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 14:53
|
The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 14:53
Source
He looked like a young, freshly sprouting Henry Kissinger, before complicity in war crimes coarsened him, and plagiarism became commonplace in allegedly relevant academic texts.The [...] The post Concentrated Markets and Iceless Fokkers appeared first on The AIM Network. |
|
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 14:25
|
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 14:25
|
|
The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, December 23, 2024 - 14:25
Source
Oxfam Australia Media Release Barefoot children forced to search through rubbish for food scraps across Gaza. Of the meagre 34 trucks of food and water [...] |
Sunday, December 22, 2024 - 22:02
|
