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Wed, 11/12/2024 - 07:17

Council to Homeless Persons Media Release The number of working Victorians seeking homelessness help has surged to a record high, with a 23% rise over the past five years, according to alarming new data. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s 2023/24 Specialist Homelessness Services Annual Report was released today. It found 13,715 employed Victorians…

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Wed, 11/12/2024 - 06:56

Homelessness Australia Media Release Homelessness in Australia has reached alarming new levels, with the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) annual data, released today, revealing a deepening emergency. Rough sleeping and persistent homelessness has increased to devastating levels, as more people are missing out on emergency accommodation and housing. The housing crisis continues…

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Wed, 11/12/2024 - 05:00

How You Met

Boston: Attended the same biotech industry mixer.

Chicago: Saw each other’s reflection in the Bean during golden hour.

New York: Almost sat in the same pee puddle on the C train.

The Pickup Line

Boston: “I went to school just outside Boston. No, not Tufts.”

Chicago: “Call me Tom Skilling, because I’m forecasting some action later.”

New York: “I have an in-unit washer-dryer.”

Asking You Out

Boston: “Wanna get Italian food in the North End?”

Chicago: “We should grab a drink by the lake and pretend it’s the ocean.”

New York: “Let’s get condescended to by the staff at a West Village wine bar.”

What Time the Date Starts

Boston: “8 p.m.”

Chicago: “Tonight-ish.”

New York: “Whenever my first date of the night ends.”

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Wed, 11/12/2024 - 04:57
The Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea, Melbourne was firebombed this week in a horrific attack. When this synagogue was set ablaze, the incident also took a match and gasoline to our news cycle. The debate around antisemitism was already primed to blow. Only a week before the Executive Council of Australian Jewry had published a Continue reading »
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Wed, 11/12/2024 - 04:54
Anthony Albanese is not our best leader. He should go now. It’s an open question whether Tanya Plibersek would be the best candidate to lead the Labor Party as Australia’s next Prime Minister. Jim Chalmers is the obvious alternative and there could be others. Both would have a strong claim if there were to be Continue reading »
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Wed, 11/12/2024 - 04:52
From the day the war began, 15-year old Ghazal’s life was irreversibly changed. “They destroyed what was inside us,” she said. Her story is a window into the larger tragedy of how war has devastated children, especially those with disabilities. The unimaginable cost of war Ghazal, a 15-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, has lost her Continue reading »
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Wed, 11/12/2024 - 04:51
A non- prejudicial clause can end internal bickering. President Prabowo Subianto’s proposal for a joint development project in the South China Sea (SCS) with China has hit a snag. His foreign Minister, Pak Sugiono, was lynched before a parliamentary Committee on 3 December by lawmakers demanding answers to why Indonesia agreed to the term “overlapping Continue reading »
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Wed, 11/12/2024 - 04:50
“The first CIA effort at regime change in Syria was in 1947 at the very moment of its inception. And there were multiple efforts to overthrow governments in Syria and well before Bashar Al Assad took power. … They all failed. There were efforts of course to change the Bashar Al Assad regime, to overthrow Continue reading »