Most-viewed news websites Feb 2024: 8 different owners in top 11 spots.

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OEM engineer talks about stripping down a Tesla

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Crikey.com.au delivers the vax ad campaign we didn't realise we needed

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Australian Jobs: taxable income vs gender balance [OC]

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Does anyone else like to see this sort of thing? 35-year-old car, original rego, green Garden State plate, pristine condition. *kisses fingers*

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They just digitised some old Australian Government reports and ... holy jesus save me.

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Five cent coins now worth more as metal than face value. Don't try melting them down in your microwave tho...

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King Charles booted off the five dollar note: RBA

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RBA predicts inflation to average 6 per cent this year and gradually reduce to 3 per cent in two years time. (i.e. it will get worse before it slowly gets better)

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Huge shout out to Aussie Tim Macartney-Snape who climbed Everest in 1990 without oxygen (choosing a rarely used route with a 33% fatality rate, straight up the north face) and who is now 65, and has the physique of a 17-year old gymrat. [source: his instagram]

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The woman I love. (In the trees at Appi Kogen, Japan)

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Unemployment back over 4% for the first time in 2 years.

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Amazing new pilot study from Cornell finds ENORMOUS change in how controls and patients respond to exercise

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Australia is about to get a big lesson in the magic of compounding.

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What r/australia looked like 11 years ago.

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More clinical trials are starting up for long covid than have ever been completed for me/cfs. This is good news.

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Beer's long, slow decline.

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ATO data: median super balance by age.

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The cash decline seems ... to have stopped?

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The number of job ads in Australia fell by half in April, according to ANZ data.

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The fastest way from the bridge to the train station.

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Powerball update: $120 million prize split between two winners. number of entries made that a near certainty: highest ticket sales in history creating strongly negative expected value.

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The government finally gives us a bit of age/dose data.

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Alacaraz: heir apparent or shooting star? [OC]

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JB Hi-Fi proposes an alternative for Fed Square

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Victorian High Country, just before the sun goes down and it gets COLD.

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Only now do I truly *know* my ABCs

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PSA: This year is a very good year to get a flu shot.

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The Incredible, Indestructible, Australian Unemployment Rate! (unemployment holds at 3.5% in latest data)

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How much does percentage matter?

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A little is probably going to be a lot when it comes to rate rises.

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Dees percentage is in rare areas. But since 2000 there have been five ladder-toppping teams with a percentage above 150 at the end of round 10. Just one went on to win the Grand Final.

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The sharehouse just died (with a felafel in its hand)

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Federer's ranking history vs every other tennis player over 40. [OC]

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I very much appreciate this time of year, when, seen from the Eastern Freeway overpasses, the sun goes down behind the city.

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ZERO: New ABS data on monthly foreign visitors to Australia shows fall from one million to nothing.

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Car sales in Australia have collapsed in 2020. But not Hybrids, which suddenly hold a substantial share of the market.

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Job ads continue to fall back towards normal levels.

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Taxi companies stepping up their marketing. (x-post from r/melbourne)

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Does the law speak your language? [OC]

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Jobs are in services now. Burger flipping; software writing; dental; haircuts; accounting; plumbing; care; health; etc

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The sheer number of tennis courts in this one little area.

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The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia has just digitised the Australians books, a series of statistical historical reports produced for the bicentennial in 1988. Fascinating for many reasons, not least that a more heinous catalogue of data visualisation crimes exists nowhere else.

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Richmond v Melbourne, 1861. (Featuring what looks like an polite reference to a streaker.)

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ITAP: Mt Everest, 2003, on a 2.0 megapixel camera.

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Who's at work in Australia?

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The last two years have been highly equalising.

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In honour of the French Open, a chart showing the rankings ascent of Spain's 19-year-old tennis sensation Carlos Alcaraz, faster than either Nadal or Federer [OC]

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The insolvency shortfall, which looked big in April, looks even bigger in May.

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Somebody used the Freedom of Information laws to get the RBA's house price forecasts under their different pandemic scenarios.

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The Heir Apparent? [OC]

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Consumer confidence is now 10% higher than it was in the 6 months preceding the pandemic: Westpac.

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Relationship between profit and employment | RBA. This is why we want to dodge recessions: firms will slash their employee numbers.

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Drug called xanomeline improves blood flow in mecfs (in vitro)

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Clifton Hill, looking southwest, at the end of the day.

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Household real disposable income change, quarterly

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Can the Pies win from fourth? A percentage perspective...

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In a speech today, the RBA reminded us that if we lean only on monetary policy to manage the economy, we risk higher house prices and worsening inequality.

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Fatal and Serious Injury (FSI) Rates for Different Travel Modes in Victoria, Australia (nb log scale!)

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Change in Australian home ownership rates by income group. (Bloomberg)

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There'll be a pile-on over on r/ausfinance, here, let's try to steel-man this idea and rebut it constructively.

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Interested in your theories on *why* this might be: Wealthier areas had the biggest % increase in JobSeeker recipients over the last two years, esp in NSW

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Black Friday more of a weak grey this year in a sign that rate hikes are in effect and could crimp Christmas

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The average monthly repayment increase for people coming off fixed in the next year is $1042 | NAB

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Household tax take grew at a record pace in the last Q | RBA

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Surprising: In the pandemic, both rich and poor areas got onto JobSeeker at about the same pace. [March 2020 vs Feb 2022]

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I needed to get fitter to be a better dad. I said to myself, if she's going through a body transformation, what's my excuse?!

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The outside Dunny still exists. $929,000 in Carlton

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Electric and hybrid vehicles have doubled their sales in the last year, even though new car sales have been weak.

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Young people have seen little income growth recently - Productivity Commission

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Consumer confidence: what surprises me is not that those who have paid off their home are most confident, it's that such a situation is basically unprecedented.

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The ATO has released its annual taxation statistics with all the breakdowns of Australian taxpayers.

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Should you use an accountant at tax time? Most high-earners do, but there's still lots of rich people using mygov!

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AUD has extremely large sudden plunge

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The International Energy Agency's predictions for solar capacity, vs reality.

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Nine Million tourists and rising [Australian Bureau of Statistics]

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Football journalism, May 1861, The Age

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Job seeker's market out there at the moment... [chart source: ANZ]

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x-post from r/Australia: New Aussie flag to foster that strong sense of trans-tasman camaraderie.

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A strategy update from department store Myer shows how the casualisation of Australia's workforce happens at a company by company level.

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Underemployment is rising again... [Source: ABS Labour Force, August 2019]

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Of Tolls and Bells.... I found a very old final warning notice inside this dusty old book. Is that nine pounds Miss Nash owed? Seems a lot!

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Travel is already more than halfway back to its pre-covid level. Can built-up savings and pent-up wanderlust overcome fear and trepidation and help us set a new outbound travel record this summer? What will it do to domestic spending if all the baby boomers are spending their money in London and NY?

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NDIS participation rates. Highest is boys aged 5-7. Over 10% of that cohort is enrolled in the NDIS.

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SMH front page will name Don Burke as serial abuser.

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wow. CBA reports incomes in Australia have RISEN thanks to goverment payments.

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A snowboarder getting ankle deep powder...

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Nominal GDP vs stock market in Australia. Are stocks underpriced as the value of a dollar falls?

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Australia's official interest rate and forecast interest rate, as published by the RBA today.

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Rate cut on Tuesday now basically a CERTAINTY, according to market pricing.

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It has been so long since our last recession that Australia has forgotten how to recession.

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Interest rate futures can be quite accurate at the start of a hiking cycle. (light blue lines)

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Are you ready for 3 rate hikes next year? Or has the market got it wrong?

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New ABS data reveals the biggest monthly fall in the number of people with jobs in over three years.

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ATO data: average and median super balance by state.

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Tesla engineering vacancy opens up.

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Australian labour force participation since 1980, by age and sex.

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Housing price to income ratios, Australia, by state

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A dataset you might not have seen before: monthly fuel sales. Aviation fuel -80%. Petrol -43%. Diesel -10%.

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RBA charts showing price changes in most expensive, median and least expensive homes over time.

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Taxi companies stepping up their marketing.

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Sorry, but tonight's lottery will sell too many tickets to have a positive expected value. Every Powerball draw since 2018 (black circles) and the latest sequence(blue lines).

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The chat: The labour market is in unprecedented flux and kids will have multiple careers in their lifetime!!! Reality:

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Effort Expenditure task from the new NIH study. Will this really measure what the experimenters intend to measure?

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Melbourne City Council assessment of CBD footpath blockages.

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Incredible. [Source: RBA]

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Today's fall in the S&P 200 is set to be among the 20 biggest falls in the last 30 years

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Market pricing implies rate hikes very soon. RBA insists not for years. Someone is wrong.

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ABS - Lending to households down 4.4% in December 15.0% in the year

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Would you be happier in the country? [Source: World Happiness Report]

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gganimate question: How can I get the shadow mark to apply alpha = .2 to the geom_point later and alpha = 1 to the geom_text layer?

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Somebody used the Freedom of Information laws to get the RBA's house price forecasts under their different pandemic scenarios.

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Ten per cent of businesses intend to shut down when government support ceases, according to new ABS data.

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The median mortgage holder is worse off, but the median renter and outright home owner are better off, since December 2021: RBA

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AUD in freefall. 56.84 cents.

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Beijing, 2003.

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wow. CBA reports incomes in Australia have RISEN thanks to goverment payments.

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Interesting reminder from the RBA that even though wages(per hour) aren't keeping up with inflation, income (weekly) is easily outstripping inflation.

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ANZ job ads series: decline accelerates.

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How much does a rate hike affect the orange line?

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ABS data: How many Aussies are overweight or obese if you ask them (dark blue bars), vs if you weigh them (green bars).

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Encountered a dragon yesterday! 🐉 (Eastern water dragon, around a metre long, by the Yarra.)

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New owner occupier loans have never been higher. [ABS data out today]

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RBA chart: house price fall of 20% vs 10% makes a bigger dent in consumption than rise in unemployment of 8% vs of 1%.

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Since about 2004, owning a retail business in this country has been a slow grind.

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What's more relevant for the RBA: that higher electricity prices suck money from household budgets and therefore are a substitute for rate hikes in compressing spending; or that higher electricity prices flow through to CPI and are therefore a reason to hike rates?

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Spotted this guy swooping after prey down by the Yarra River last night. Tawny Frogmouth

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How the stimulus hits different households. [via AlphaBeta]

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Detail on loan deferrals at CBA. 8% of loans deferred, they say 12% of these are people in high-risk industries.

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Unemployment ticks back DOWN in May, RBA feeling better about their latest hike?

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Employment Status of Graduates

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Dwelling prices post covid.

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House prices this year in 5 capital cities.

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Results from the Stanford nano-needle test.

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Lowe specifies that if there is QE in Australia it will take the form of the RBA buying government bonds.

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ANZ is now forecasting shrinking GDP in the period October-December (December quarter), due to withdrawal of fiscal support.

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The fiscal cliff as it stands.

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Australia: putting money in the bank.

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In March this year, Australia hit peak side-hustle

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Poverty rates by family type [source: HILDA 2021]

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Married? Your chances of being unemployed just dropped dramatically.

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Major Banks' Retail Deposit Rates. Time to close your online saver

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The RBA's three unemployment scenarios.

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This pandemic is like Christmas for insolvency firms. (there's no work to do, nothing's going on, it's incredibly quiet.)

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RBA chart: Housing turnover rate

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Powder, onigiri and rickety single chairlifts: トマム (Tomamu)

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Australian house prices. (Monthly growth, annualised.)

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Housing market looks set to roll over again. Could be a weak Spring selling season.

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Laser focus!

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I have been haunting this ASIC spreadsheet, waiting for a big surge in insolvencies, and I think I have to finally admit, it's just not happening. Businesses are unusually strong.

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