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The femmos next target is school hours. https://thenightly.com.au/opinion/kate-emery-why-school-hours-are-sexist-and-killing-womens-ambition–c-13660771?fbclid=IwAR2M1IYRaozyHheK8Brg-j-JdEoNiT5xtN2hl3-sqXlElrhkWb2AL3hIIAM Many will agree that schools, or somebody, should raise the children while the parents go to work. After all, everyone needs to work harder to buy the dog box unit or 200m² block that earlier generations would have labelled third world. But the underlying assumption is never … Read more

So according to AFR: “Leinster, where BHP owns almost everything including the houses, faces wipe out if the mining giant shuts down its nickel business in the face of what it admits is a structural change triggered by a flood of supply from Chinese-backed nickel laterite producers in Indonesia.” https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/inside-the-pub-at-ground-zero-of-australia-s-nickel-woes-20240218-p5f5uf DLS reckons that Simandou is the Pilbara … Read more

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/management/five-tips-to-manage-your-gen-z-workers-20240213-p5f4ij The late middle aged female chief people officer of supermarkets operator Coles Group says that Gen Z want: Another highly competent female was quoted as saying: Let’s be clear, this is not about Gen Z in general. This is about a select group of graduate Gen Zs that big companies compete for. It’s not … Read more

In the AFR on 9th November, in a piece called “Australia records biggest income decline in the developed world”, Deloitte Access Economics lead partner Pradeep Philip said “Australia’s 2.2 per cent population growth rate explained about one-third of the decline in per capita incomes. He added “the solution is actually to grow the economy to … Read more

The RBA is widely tipped to raise rates. MB points out, “Nearly half of all price rises are the fault of Albanese Government ineptitude.” ie. rents and utilities. https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/10/alboflation-runs-riot/ The falling AUD can’t be helping either. A feedback loop may be developing where interest rates follow rising house prices, which are fed by immigration. Immigration … Read more