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Based on my recollection of the PDS (remember that I read these 4 months ago), the cost of hedging is built into the fee shown in my table.
Afaik they're not currently offering an unhedged version of these ones. The cost of hedging is pretty small in absolute terms though, for Blackrock's other stuff I think it's around 0.03% difference between the hedged/unhedged.
The hedging cost should be part of the fee?
Melbourne's Southern Cross Station is a gateway for commuters and visitors to the city, but experts say secret data shows the air quality poses a health risk to workers and passengers.
> - In short: Data detailing the air quality at Melbourne's Southern Cross Station has been released for the first time. > - It shows nitrogen dioxide levels in parts of the station have regularly been more than 90 times the guidelines set by the World Health Organization. > - The Victorian government and the station's operator say they've been meeting Australian workplace standards.
An unnamed former Australian politician, who was successfully cultivated by an international spy ring, once suggested bringing a prime minister's family member into contact with his foreign handlers.
> An unnamed former Australian politician, who was successfully cultivated by an international spy ring, once suggested bringing a prime minister's family member into contact with their foreign handlers.
It actually sounds like the van's panels (I'm guessing especially the large roof panel) can provide non-trivial power:
"Even if I'm stuck somewhere we just have to wait a couple of hours and it'll self charge and bring me home." (emphasis added)
No doubt the huge array of panels on his roof can give it a lot more juice though!
Stealing Solar424's comment:
"TOMATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Kaela said calmly
Kaela's tomato (Hololive fan animation)
Original stream source: 【PlateUp!】 The Sweaty TryHard Gamers Collab (Piped)
Mumei as a source of radical societal reform was not on my bingo card.
Mumei talks about her long absence (Hololive clip)
> I'm not returning to my regular schedule for a long time. It is for me. I'm basically working on myself.
> If this was a regular job I honestly would've quit. And I'm just very grateful that I have this opportunity and I really wish everyone could do this. I wish everyone, if they needed to, could take time away and just focus on themselves. It's horrible that life isn't like that for most people. > > It was quite rough for me for a long time, and I just kind of just kept pushing it down "I'll deal with this later, I'll deal with this later, I'll deal with this later" but it went to the point where I gotta deal with this.
This year's Waitangi Day is bigger than any of the past 30 years, as Māori from all over Aotearoa unite against a controversial government bill that could change the Treaty of Waitangi.
> More than 1,000 people have marched into the treaty grounds at Waitangi on New Zealand's north island — the culmination of a week-long protest against a controversial government bill.
It's hard to compete in a niche where there's already a well-established incumbent (OzBargain). Almost everything submitted there is just links to the site anyway, which seems superfluous.
We sat down with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and asked her your questions
Since Jacinta Allan took Victoria's top job four months ago, she's put her own stamp on the office. But the state's 49th premier faces the same challenges as her high-profile predecessor Daniel Andrews.
> Ahead of her first sit-down TV interview since becoming premier, the ABC asked voters in Croydon, Werribee, Geelong, Mildura and Ms Allan's hometown of Bendigo what issues they thought were most pressing, and if they had any questions for the premier.
[Satire] Australia Day to be moved to Scott Morrison’s resignation day
"Finally a day we can all come together."
> In calendar news, Australia Day is officially changing date after this year and will no longer be celebrated on January 26th. With a new date of January 20th chosen instead in order to celebrate the day that Scott Morrison announced his departure from politics. > > The day was reportedly chosen for the holiday as it was clearly the day that Australia has most come together to celebrate, like what Australia Day claims to be.
Analysis of AEC’s annual political returns show one quarter of major parties’ funding comes from unnamed sources
> The origin of at least $57m – amounting to about a quarter of all funding to major political parties – is unknown, according to an analysis by Guardian Australia. > > The analysis of annual political returns, released by the Australian Electoral Commission on Thursday, show between 21% and 27% of donations and other receipts to Labor, the Coalition and the Greens were from unnamed sources.
Anthony Albanese might not be Labor’s strongest policy innovator but as a tactician, he’s as shrewd as they come.
> For the longer term, the Stage 3 decision has burst a dam, unleashing a much wider tax debate. > > The pressure is coming from two directions – from those whipping up scares of what the government might do and those who want the government to undertake a range of ambitious reforms.
Vacuum cleaner retailer Godfreys has entered voluntary administration, leaving 193 jobs on the line with 54 stores to close in the next 14 days as it undergoes a restructure while searching for a buyer.
> - Godfreys has entered voluntary administration while looking for a potential buyer for the vacuum cleaner retailer. > > - The business has struggled with maintaining its profitability due to reduced customer demand and higher operational costs. > > - Administrators expect 54 Godfreys stores will close within the fortnight, affecting 193 jobs in Australia and New Zealand.
HoloEN - Mind Craft (song cover MV)
Original song by Gero: YouTube (Piped)
The way Bae organized who sung what was interesting to hear about: ≪MINDCRAFT AFTER-PARTY≫ ITS FINALLY OUT!! (Piped)
Mumei voice 👀
Dozens of former colleagues have spoken candidly to the ABC political docuseries Nemesis about the destructive rivalry between Liberal giants Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull.
> It was a political rivalry so utterly self-destructive that one cabinet minister compared it to being "strapped to a suicide bomber". > > "The Turnbull-Abbott tussle was very torrid, not just for the Liberal Party internally, but for the government more generally for years and years and years," says former Coalition minister Bridget McKenzie. "You knew something horrific and catastrophic was going to happen." > > In interviews for the ABC political docuseries Nemesis, dozens of former Coalition ministers and MPs have spoken of the toxic rivalry between Liberal giants Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull, and how their relentless internecine conflict crippled both men's governments and helped destroy each other's political careers.
Over months of filming and 60 on-camera interviews for the ABC's landmark political docuseries Nemesis, the free character assessments between former Coalition colleagues fly thick and fast. But as well as the blue language and invective, there are also moments of remorse and regret.
> Over months of filming and 60 on-camera interviews for the ABC's landmark political docuseries Nemesis, the free character assessments between former Coalition colleagues fly thick and fast. But as well as the blue language and invective, there are also moments of remorse and regret. > > Watch the first episode of the ABC's political docuseries Nemesis on Monday at 8pm on ABC TV and iview.
Some choice quotes: > What [Barnaby Joyce] says next, referring to Turnbull, stuns me. Let's just say it's a four-letter word, connected to another four-letter word.
> In one interview, Turnbull is called a "turd" by one of his former supporters. > >For his part, the former prime minister recounts being told to "f*** off" by his predecessor Tony Abbott.
> The last Coalition prime minister Scott Morrison is labelled "smug" and an "arrogant arsehole" during an interview with one of his former backbenchers.
Yeah the titles from ABC News are generally....... not my personal choice these days, but I guess they feel the need to play whatever the title game is.
Did you actually read through the article, or are you just assuming the contents based on the (admittedly mildly clickbait-y) title?
While a lot of the political commentary is fixated on Labor's broken promise, will its backflip make the tax system better? On that, there's a lot less argument.
> ANU economist Ben Phillips ran the government's proposed stage 3 tweaks through his PolicyMod simulator to weigh up the winners and losers. > > He finds about 6.2 million households will benefit from the Albanese government's changes, while just 1.1 million households will lose out compared to the tax laws passed under the Coalition. > > The government's gamble is that nearly six-to-one winners to losers presents pretty good odds for the widespread financial benefits to outweigh the cost of a broken promise.
Want to know how the federal government's planned changes to the final stage of tax cuts will affect you? Use our tax cut calculator to find out.
> ### What are the new stage 3 tax cut brackets? > > Here's how the proposed plan looks at a glance: > > - Earn up to $18,200 – pay no tax > > - Pay a 16 per cent tax rate on each dollar earned between $18,201-$45,000 > > - Pay a 30 per cent tax rate on each dollar earned between $45,001-$135,000 > > - Pay a 37 per cent tax rate on each dollar earned between $135,001 — $190,000 > > - Pay a 45 per cent tax rate on each dollar earned above $190,000 > > ### What were they going to be? > > Here's what the previous plan looked like at a glance: > > - Earn up to $18,200 – pay no tax > > - Pay a 19 per cent tax rate on each dollar earned between $18,201-$45,000 > > - Pay a 30 per cent tax rate on each dollar earned between $45,001-$200,000 > > - Pay a 45 per cent tax rate on each dollar earned above $200,000
Covid, yes, but not widespread lockdowns (and some other stuff from the "early covid" period) which is basically what the article is reflecting on. For example, I hadn't really thought about how it could affect child social development due to significantly reduced social exposure.
This isn't really a "covid is over" piece. 'It's still a serious human pathogen' wouldn't be a sub-heading if it was.
The relics of the pandemic are slowly fading but four years on, it still haunts the collective consciousness.
> COVID-19 was detected in Australia four years ago today.
The government will halve the stage 3 tax cuts for the highest earners and use the money to deliver an $804 tax cut across the board.
> The government will halve the stage 3 tax cuts for the highest earners and use the money to deliver an $804 tax cut across the board.
> The prime minister will tell press club the reversal was motivated by changing economic circumstances.
Good stuff, sometimes aggressive measures need to be taken to look out for the interest of the shareholders. Plus the fuel discount is a perfectly timed Christmas gift, exactly what Australia needs in a cost of living crisis. Bravo Woolies, very proud to have my superannuation invested in a company that cares!
It's a mixed bag (haha). Sometimes they do a decent job, sometimes not so much.
It's funny when the two of us more-or-less agree on the summary. Nonetheless, whoever reads both often ends up just basically reading the original lol.
In this experiment, external funding is paying for the handouts.
In a self-contained system, the same system/community providing the handouts would be generating the revenue for them (e.g., via taxation). Think of existing social welfare where "the system" generates the revenue that pays for the welfare programs.
I agree it's a useful insight, but it's the only sentence in the entire article that isn't instead discussing the merits of lump sum vs regular payment. Saying that "it's the takeaway" from the linked article is insanity.
The Wikipedia page for Hitler includes the sentence:
The stock market in the United States crashed on 24 October 1929.
That doesn't make it the takeaway of the article!! If you want to make a case for something, bring the right evidence. As the researchers themselves have said, this study can't just be generalized to high-income countries.
Holy shit, half, and they nearly shut down. I hope that's not just going to be a death-spiral for them, where losing that many staff ends up killing the company anyway :(
I noticed the same and just assumed that was when maintenance tasks were scheduled, but that's wild speculation lol.
In terms of spiciness, my impression was no. If I hadn't looked at the ingredients, I wouldn't have guessed there was any in there.
I had a few of these a couple weeks ago (someone I know bought a packet) - the baking soda (?) seems to be what makes it "kinda ginger beer" instead of just "ginger".
edit: typo
I've never seen the stats before and 8% seems really high?? Is there some subset of Australia that tips all the time that I rarely see?
Edit: nvm, the stat is confusing as other commenter pointed out.
The number of payments with tips has remained stable throughout the last year with 0.52% of payments throughout the hospitality sector including a tip in August 2023, according to Lightspeed.