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When Col Fullagar isn’t jumping out of helicopters volunteering as a firefighter in remote areas of NSW he works in the cutthroat world of life insurance.

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You can read James Packer's sell down and impending exit out of the Macau market many ways.

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When a guy with an assault rifle walks into a pizza joint to "self-investigate" the made-up conspiracy theory he found on the internet about a non-existent child-prostitution ring, there's no doubt we've got a problem.

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It is possible to make sense of what's happening in the labour market, but only if you follow a few rules.

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Congratulations are in order as ScoMo's epiphany represents a major break with the Abbott/Hockey dogma of all government debt being evil.

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More people are going to have to take risks, because jobs can't be guaranteed, even with a degree.

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The Fed's well-telegraphed move early this morning is a key part of why our central bank has not cut its cash rate again.

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The move take a position and get a slice of the spoils in the carve-up of the Tatts Group is vintage Macquarie Group.

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A new bid from financial players including Macquarie and US-based private equiteers KKR for lotteries and gaming group Tatts could scupper Tabcorp's takeover ambitions.

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The Australian public is the sole investor in Adani's coal export plans. We need to understand the true numbers.

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Fairfax is calling it dirty. At the very least it's intriguing.

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Imagine the task of building a city the size of Canberra every year, for the rest of this century. Or, how about creating a new city the population of Melbourne every decade?

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Donald Trump hung his winning presidential campaign on the idea that he alone could bring back American jobs.

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It was supposed to be the Coalition government’s panacea for the crisis in confidence plaguing the financial planning industry, but almost two years after it was launched, it’s a dud.

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What would economic race-calling be without its little excitements? As you may possibly have heard, this week's news is that the economy has contracted - shrunk, gone backwards - by 0.5 per cent.

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Treasurer Morrison labelled this week's surprisingly low September quarter GDP number as a "wake-up call". What he didn't say is that it's a call that's been ringing for three years.

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By turning his back on migrants is counter to the trends of immigration that actually realised his election mantra of "making America great again."

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​There's a big difference between something being legal and being morally right.

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The Treasury and the Reserve Bank are likely to 'look through' the reported numbers to focus on what's happening beneath them.

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To the extent that the soon-to-be-departing head of Bunnings John Gillam made a mistake, it was to turn down an approach to become chief executive at Woolworths.

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A store with no workers is a concern for us all.

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Women and men are not always supported in their desire for work flexibility. There's stigmas, and much resistance.

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"Who do you think you f---ing are? ... If you try to get me, I'm going to throw you under the f---ing bus."

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Vendors are signing real estate agency agreements that read as if the agents are doing a massive personal favour listing the property. And this when most properties in the hotter markets are close to selling themselves.

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There could be an interesting moment during Tuesday's Reserve Bank board meeting: when the members consider that the bank's forecast of year-to gross domestic product growth dropping to about 2.5 per cent has arrived nine months early.

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An age-old debate was re-ignited last week, when the OECD called for higher interest rates to rein in Australia's resurgent housing market.

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Australian banks are drawing a line in the sand. Interest rates on mortgages are going up – by stealth. And there will be flow on effect to the residential property market and temper the rate of growth in Sydney and Melbourne.

If Treasury wants to start acting more like economists than accountants, a good place to start would be to urge its political masters to seize on the opportunity presented by the school funding "compact" proposed by the Grattan Institute.

In a post-truth world, clear communication is more important than ever.

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Sitting at home watching Netflix or playing on home electronic gadgets, eating delivered takeout food, and getting fatter? You're not alone.