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The USA under Trump determined to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by 1 May.
The Biden administration has decided to prolong it by 6 months.
Australia has been caught up in a war it didn‘t start.
Simply by being an ally, meant our men are also involved in this conflict.
Hundreds have been sacrificed with no resolution.
How can we sustain a war, when our own people endure flooding, fire and loss of standard of living, because our government’s focus is on this foreign conflict.
Governments need to mitigate historical flooding in areas where the risk is like playing Russian roulette; the worst for over 60 years in many areas.
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Buy (almost) everything is back
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Stock markets rise, US dollar dips
In a flashback to the future, US markets fully returned to work overnight and partied like it was 2020. Stock markets powered higher; the US dollar fell at the expense of risk-correlated currencies, US yields eased slightly, and industrial metals rose. Gold and cryptos both had positive days with only oil suffering, which we will discuss later.
There seems to have been a delayed reaction to Friday’s impressive Non-Farm Payrolls. The whole buy everything process being given another sugar rush by the US ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI blowing forecasts out of the water. Markit Services PMI had outperformed as it rose to 60.40, but the ISM data stole the show. Non-Manufacturing PMI for March rose to 63.70 versus 59.0 expected, as the US reaps the Covid-19 jabs in arms, stimulus cheques peace dividend faster than expected.
IAN MEIKLE.
PENOLOGY hero Alexander Maconochie
, the Scotsman with the surname that tests sub-editors, gets a lot of undeserved bad press because our toxic prison is named after him.
Ian Meikle.
Which is a pity because the poor man died in Surrey, England, October 25, 1860.
More of Mr Mac in a moment, because this past week Winnunga Aboriginal Health Centre’s irrepressible CEO
Julie Tongs, in sharing this column’s call for a public enquiry into the shameful state of the jail, has suggested the AMC be renamed.
“It’s not fair to the reputation of Alexander Maconochie, one of the greatest penal reformers in history, to have his name associated with the prison,” she said.