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The RBA’s new Board meeting format gets its first outing

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By Stephen Kirchner, Matt Cowgill
| Substack
The RBA building at 65 Martin Place under construction circa 1962. This week we learned that the RBA’s headquarters at 65 Martin Place is so riddled with asbestos it will have to be stripped back to its steel frame as part of an ongoing renovation now expected to cost $850 million.
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Visualising the 2022 Australian federal election with geom_sugarbag

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By Matt Cowgill
| mattcowgill.com
Maps are great! But sometimes they can be a bit deceptive. This is particularly the case when the population density of a place varies greatly, as it does in Australia. Australians live in a small number of large-ish cities, with vast expanses of largely empty space in between them. This is a challenge to visualise. For example, think of Australian federal electorates. Each one has roughly the same number of voters in it - a bit over 100,000. But they occupy vastly different amounts of space.
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Now is an especially bad time to cut unemployment benefits

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By Brendan Coates, Matt Cowgill
| grattan.edu.au
Now is an especially bad time to cut unemployment benefits by Brendan Coates and Matt Cowgill Published in Pearls and Irritations, 25 February 2021 The extra $25 a week to the JobSeeker rate from April puts the unemployment payment right back where it was in 2007, some 14 years ago, at 41 per cent of the minimum wage.
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