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swrightwestoz

  1. Now it's time for Chemical Brothers and the classic Dig Your Own Hole. Will be dimming the lights in the West Oz office soon! about 5 hours ago via web
  2. Good to be listening to Peter Gabrie's Scratch My Back - all covers, no drums or guitar. Bowie's Heroes a highilght. A way to work a weekend about 5 hours ago via web
  3. RBA getting more bullish on terms of trade - now reckon at highest levels since Federation. That will help budget line for more years 5:38 PM Nov 4th via web
  4. @birmo You'll be glad to know I'm a descendent of one of Australia's first home grown bushrangers. Jack the Native! 6:49 PM Nov 3rd via web
  5. @Birmo Watch it out there at Forbes. It's old bushranger territory! 2:54 PM Nov 3rd via web
  6. It's all our own fault. CBA largely blames competition in deposit rates for its super-size me standard variable increase 9:08 PM Nov 1st via web
  7. CBA takes lead, adding 0.45% to its standard variable mortgage rate. 8:56 PM Nov 1st via web
  8. At least I had money on Americain. Now I can pay the higher mortgage! 8:23 PM Nov 1st via web
  9. RBA has decided to hit mortgage holders before they do their dough on the horses. 7:30 PM Nov 1st via web
  10. RBA's annual reprot shows it made a loss of $3 billion last year - after a $9 billion the year before. 10:03 PM Oct 27th via web
  11. To paraphrase: There are ties, damned ties and Packham neck attire 8:32 PM Oct 26th via web
  12. RBA now in trouble for plans to lift rates next week, because underlying inflation well under control 5:34 PM Oct 26th via web
  13. Kaleen versus Kaleen #canbfilmfest 9:08 PM Oct 25th via web
  14. The Guns of Narranbundah, Last Exit to Queanbeyan, The Good The Bad and The Charnwood #canbfilmfest 9:03 PM Oct 25th via web
  15. The Guns of Narranbundah, Last Exit to Queanbeyan, The Good The Bad and The Charnwood #canbfilmest 9:02 PM Oct 25th via web
  16. State Circle of Play, Hughes Your Daddy?, Some Like it Hall, Citizen Kambah, Civic Wars #canbfilmfest 8:56 PM Oct 25th via web
  17. Harry J says there's something in the water today. Given his rebuke to Greg Hunt, he may have been drinking the water himself! 8:38 PM Oct 25th via web
  18. Maybe Bob Brown should argue against Brit investment in Oz given the way it behaved towards Aust in the 1930s? C'mon Bob... 5:30 PM Oct 25th via web
  19. It's the Seinfeld bizarro world in which Marn talks about Oprah. Has Oz politics moved that far forward? 9:02 PM Oct 24th via web
  20. Wilkie's journo shield laws now set to become 16th private member bill passed into law, and first non-govt bill since 1989 4:56 PM Oct 24th via web
  • Name Shane Wright
  • Location Canberra, Australia
  • Web http://www.thewes...
  • Bio Economics editor for The West Australian newspaper
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