Australian business media

From RBA head Backbone Phil overnight: This is something we have been focused on for some time.

The loons are running wild today, from Gotti: Here is an invitation for you: Send a dollar “to help stop Westpac from financing the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef’’.

If only…cutting investor loans to 30% from 48% of mortgages would be a great idea: Instead we got absolute waffle.

Via the AFR: Private equity giant TPG Capital is believed to have quietly amassed shares in Fairfax Media, as it weighs up whether to make a full bid for the online property portal and media group as soon as this week.

Run by Chris Kohler it has disappeared today.

We can now confirm that the property section has been permanently elevated above all other content aside from headlines at Domainfax’s metro dailies: Moreover, what are those “Dream Homes” blocks?

The creep is imperceptible but it’s there if you’re watching.

Cross-posted from The Conversation: Creativity and spectacle are becoming less important than the personal information used to target ads.

Late last week I received this email from Michael Stutchbury, editor of the AFR: Dear Valued Subscriber, Energy crisis explodes at the Financial Review Business Summit.

Dear God: The chief executive of Fairfax Media-owned real estate advertising business Domain has revealed intentions to expand into potentially lucrative financial services operations, as investors look for growth strategies after an upcoming float.

From Domainfax comes another really stupid decision from the Do-nothing government: The Turnbull government has overruled an independent selection panel to appoint the chairwoman of the Minerals Council to the ABC board.

Iron ore futures are flat after overnight falls suggesting a decent hit tomorrow but holding on despite Chinese house prices and sagging coking coal futures.

Here we have it laid bare.

Via the AFR: Fairfax Media has launched a strategic review of its Domain business with a view to spinning off the real estate group into a separate ASX vehicle that would remain controlled by Fairfax.

Finally an issue that can bring together the rabble that is Australia’s Right wing political economy.

The Murdoch Press is fighting a desperate rear guard action in its broadsheets today as Do-nothing Malcolm turns to screeching in Parliament and lies about energy to save his skin.

Let me state from the very outset that I disagree with most Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson policies.

You will cheer up and buy a property or you will be exterminated: Reading Edward’s thought-provoking and deeply reassuring paper throws up the following reasons for optimism.

Some folks just don’t get it and when that includes the nation’s leading intellects you know that revolution is afoot.

We all know that the Colation relies upon Newscorp for its positive coverage but even it is increasingly reflecting the divisions between the Abbott and Turnbull wings of the party.

Weeoo, weeoo, weeoo.

LOL: Editor’s Note: The Washington Post on Nov.

Domainfax is really revving up on the post-truth thing, over the weekend profiling a ‘fake truther’ via WaPo: Fewer than 2000 readers are on his website when Paris Wade, 26, awakens from a nap, reaches for his laptop and thinks he needs to, as he puts it, “feed” his audience.

Don’t look now but an awful MSM has discovered post-truth, in everyone else of course.