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Demographer Liz Allen proposes massive ramp up of supply in food after leaving supermarket shelves empty at her local Coles and Woolworths

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Liz Allen has yet again departed from her weekly grocery trip leaving the supermarket aisles at the Canberra Civic Coles/Woolworths (she visited both) completely empty, at least in the chips/snacks/lollies and soft drinks aisles. When confronted on what the solution should be so that there could be more food available following these events Allen responded … Read more

Is DLS Bernard?

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MB channelling the ‘FKA again? https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/03/australias-brave-new-world/ Very low numbers of comments compared to us. Looks like MB’s subscribers are either not much interested in talking to one another or are not large in number. I would not like to see MB die. This would be a great shame. Leftist attacks are going to get more … Read more

Is WA going to crash or fly?

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Many posts at MB about how iron ore is doomed recently. This one today says this is the start of the the long way down. https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/03/iron-ore-goes-over-the-cliff/ According to Pete Wargent “There’s been little or no fanfare this time around, but we’ve seen a record surge in mineral exploration in 2023, to above $1bn per quarter.” … Read more

Pressure to change school hours grows

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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

Nickel first, Iron ore second?

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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

CEO finds that young workers repeat what they have been told

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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

Noticing the Australia Day Awards

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For a couple years I’ve run my eye over the Australia Day nominations, and noted the outsized representation by certain demographics relative to their population group size within Australia. Total Order of Australia honor lists recipients 2020: 837 Awards for General Division,26 Military Division,236 meritous awards,so around 1100 in total. In terms of Demographic skew take … Read more