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What did we all learn from last night's by-elections? Not a single thing, argues Mic Wright
LAST weekend local musicians showcased their talent and passion at two open mic events, at the Coffs Hotel and the Golden Dog in Glenreagh. The vibrant music scene drew in crowds, creating an electric atmosphere throughout the weekend. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us...
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SWITCHING its weekly free meal delivery to Pete’s Place, Coffs Harbour Lions Club set up a table and handed out 60 fresh filled rolls on Monday, 17 July, feeding a steady flow of people using the drop-in service. Chris and Rosemary Hansen, long-time and dedicated Coffs Harbour Lions members donated the rolls and prepped the...
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Suppose I want to play a game. Let’s say we are tossing a coin. If heads come up, I win a dollar, and if tails come up, I lose a dollar. Suppose further that I believe I know that the coin is asymmetrical and that the probability of getting heads (p) is greater than 50% […]
A big problem facing UK politics is that both main political parties see the status quo as in their narrow self-interest, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
Sorry strikers, there's just no money!
Texas troopers were told to deny migrants water and push kids into the river.
Huge losses in the Selby and Ainsty and Somerton and Frome by-elections are signs of a Conservative Government heading for a landslide defeat at the next general election
During a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2023, Wizards of the Coast showed off some of the Doctor Who cards for Magic: The Gathering.
Anthony Albanese is still stalling on cost of living relief, even after announcing a further budget windfall. The budget surplus has swelled to $19 billion, well ahead of the $4.2 billion tipped in May.
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University bosses are already racing to support the government’s ambitions for nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement.
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There are increasing warnings that Australia’s renewable energy rollout is stalling. This puts even the chance of reaching the hopeless emissions target of the Albanese government at risk.
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The Sydney University strike campaign ended in June, with 80 per cent of union members voting to accept management’s offer, and 96.5 per cent of workers supporting the agreement in the final ballot.
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Riots swept France in early July after cops shot dead a 17-year-old, Nahel M, and then lied about it.
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While the desperate search for a missing submersible covered our news feeds, 750 refugees were left for dead in the Mediterranean after a fishing vessel capsized.
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“If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do to you thing that have never been done before.” He spread that message to his cult on Truth Social today. What could go wrong?
I hope they counted the silverware in the White House: Former President Donald Trump agreed to return ancient artifacts after Israel’s antiquities authority launched a public campaign to get them back. The story of how the ceramic oil lamps, which are part of Israel’s national treasures collection, ended up at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is complicated. It is a saga in which the artifacts made a near-visit to the White House, sat in a California closet for months and were then taken through an X-ray machine in Florida before being delivered to Trump. “These historic items were presented by a representative of the Israeli antiquities authority with the full support of the organization,” a Trump spokesman said Wednesday, adding that the items were on loan for permanent exhibition. “As the items were displayed as originally intended, the office will be expediting their return to the organization’s representative,” he said.
We can write a different ending for critically endangered species.
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In a massive show of support for limitless executive power, Congress rejected legislation that would have terminated national emergency powers allowing Washington to wage war across the Middle East. These same emergency powers give the president the power to lift bans on testing biological weapons on US citizens. Led by Representative Paul Gosar, a handful of Republican members of Congress launched a protest against 41 nominal “national emergency” declarations, many of which are decades old. Rep. Gosar has argued the […]
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