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This year’s election had the lowest turnout for a century. For the first time since compulsory voting was introduced for the 1925 federal election, turnout fell below 90%.
The post Voter turnout in the 2022 federal election hit a new low, threatening our democratic tradition appeared first on The Australia Institute.
This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.
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Marta Russell (1951-2013), the US based writer, activist and leading critical thinker, argued that disability was not a medical condition or impairment, but a ‘socially created category derived from labor relations, a product of the exploitative economic structure of capitalist society’. Disabled bodies are useful only to the extent that they create value. Capitalist social norms both demarcate who is and is not disabled in contemporary society, and at the same time oppress the disabled body. It is productivity and profits that dictate restrictions on the disabled, as well as what limited adjustments may be facilitated for the disabled to better ‘fit’ social structures. Disabled bodies are viewed as a problem. In relation to work, Connor and Coughlin argue that they are often an ‘inevitable part of the “surplus” population, not quite fully human, unable to participate in society, at best a burden and at worst a drain’.
Last week, the LDS Church formally came out in support of the federal Respect for...
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When the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) wants to raise the target range for the fed funds rate, it raises the interest on reserve balances (IORB) paid to banks, the primary credit rate offered to banks, and the award rate paid to participants that invest in the overnight reverse repo (ON RRP) market to keep the fed funds rate within the target range (see prior Liberty Street Economics posts on this topic). When these rates change, market participants respond by adjusting the valuation of financial products, of which a significant category is deposits. Understanding how deposit terms adapt to changes in policy rates is important to understanding the impact of monetary policy more broadly. In this post, we evaluate the pass through of the fed funds rate to deposit rates (that is, deposit betas) over the past several interest rate cycles and discuss factors that affect deposit rates.
The arms trade links nations through their security interests, and its current patterns may be complicating a political resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war.
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The latest wage rises from enterprise agreements show good improvement, but overall, workers continue to see their wages lag behind inflation
The post Stronger wages growth from enterprise agreements, strongest from unions appeared first on The Australia Institute.
If you’re from the west coast, you’re probably making that face that
everyone made whom I told that to: eyes wide open, mouth in the shape of a
big O as though I’d just said I’d never bathed.
‘The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.’ Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth …
The post “Scrooge” Hunt’s Autumn Statement leads us to the darkness of a new round of austerity appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.
Here is the detailed argument we submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: IN THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS: CRAIG MURRAY Applicant v THE UNITED KINGDOM Respondent Government SUPPLEMENTARY STATEMENT UNDER RULE 47(2)(b) OF THE RULES OF COURT INTRODUCTION 1. This supplementary statement sets out the relevant domestic law and practice, […]
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The end of a long-running spoof signpost to a nonexistent Welsh airport is a sad moment for our determinedly unsilly era
Continue reading...If you simply assume property markets can be competitive, you will never make sense of how the market operates.
Freedom of the Press Foundation -- November 10, 2022
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By Branko Marcetic -- Jacobin.com -- November 09, 2022
The Department of Homeland Security is helping to coordinate tech company censorship efforts according to recent reporting. The line between tech firms and the national security state is only getting blurrier.
I just booked a few nights in Melbourne. I’m driving my old jalopy down the silver-city highway to visit my pal, @MJD.
In-line with my current obsessional thinking I have made a list of some boat-dealers in the area. Who knows maybe I’ll find …