Anthony Albanese has backed America’s “unilateral action” to strike Iranian nuclear facilities after a day of silence on the superpower’s decision to enter the Middle East conflict.

I am migrating from Notion, the Notion plug in automatically saves to a 'Quick Capture' note in Notion and I can review them later.

When I save to Joplin from the browser it saves to the note I most recently had open. Is there any way to change this?

I'm using Waterfox if that makes any difference.

So I can run an extension lead and get a few more hours of sunlight on the solar panels through the winter

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and his boss, and Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock, were doing their job, calmly trying to calm everyone down. Acknowledging the great uncertainty, but trying not to add to it.

How did Dutton react? He thought: “You little beauty, here’s my chance to put the frighteners on. I’ll go for it.” So he stoked fears that a recession was imminent.

"[A]fter the last three elections in which an incumbent Labor administration fought and lost. In every case, the election campaign focused primarily on economic competence, as assessed by perceived past performance. And in all of these, the media played a dominant role in convincing a significant slice of the electorate to believe the opposite of the truth."

An interesting look at Labor vs Lib economic management and election performance.

The first Australian response to Trump was denial, then (unsuccessful) bargaining. Now there’s anger and depression as the tariffs sink in. Eventually must come acceptance.

Treasury was projecting a decade of deficits in then-treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s budget before the last federal election in 2022. So why don’t I remember the people who profess to be so worried now, expressing much concern then? Surely not because debt and deficits only matter when you’ve got a Labor government?

Labor has found more than $2bn in budget savings as it spruiks its record in cutting and re-directing former Coalition government spending to fund its agenda.

Led by the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, the government has embarked on a three-year long process of axing or shifting funding to help repair the budget bottom line and free up space for its own spending priorities.

[T]his election, it will pay to keep an eye on independents running in regional and rural Australia. Growing grassroots support suggests they, along with minor parties, will pose a major challenge to the two-party dominance that’s slowly diminishing.

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In 2019, one in four voters preferred minor or independent candidates. In 2022, it was one in three.

In fact, virtually all significant economic indicators except gross domestic product (GDP) growth show Australia’s economy is among the world’s best-performed.

• record employment growth;
• record employment to population ratio at 64.6%;
• record job participation at 67.3%;
• inflation in the lower half of the RBA’s optimum band;
• wages growth above inflation for five straight quarters;
• median wealth per adult as the second highest in the world;
• ASX200 above 8,000 since last September;
• poverty and homelessness reducing, according to the Productivity Commission;
• emergency calls to the National Debt Helpline declining,
• record high new car sales in 2024;
• record sales of new private aircraft;
• overseas trips in 2024 at a new record high of 11.6 million;
• enrolments in fee-paying private schools at an all-time high;
• record manufacturing gross profits last financial year (2023-24) at $47.4 billion;
• record construction profits last year, at $31.1 billion;
• record profits in several other sectors;
• household spending at a record high.