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Thu, 17/04/2025 - 10:55

COFFS Harbour is officially in the running to be crowned a 2025 NSW Top Tourism Town. Celebrating the best of the best visitor destinations across NSW, the Top Tourism Town Awards recognise places which deliver unforgettable experiences and a strong, sustainable connection between locals, businesses and visitors. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s...

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Thu, 17/04/2025 - 09:30

Everyone looks to the stock market to figure out if we’re heading into a recession. Sure, it has some info—for example, the market right now would tell us we definitely are—but that’s not the only recession warning sign we should be on the lookout for. If you know where to train your eyes, you’ll realize recession indicators are all around us. For example, any of the following might be a red flashing light:

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Thu, 17/04/2025 - 08:29
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest labour force data today (April 17, 2025) – Labour Force, Australia – for March 2025. It revealed that the unemployment rate rose 0.1 point (on rounding) to 4.1 per cent, employment rose by 32,200 (0.2 per cent), the underemployment rate was unchanged at 5.9 per cent,…
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Thu, 17/04/2025 - 03:00

Dear Educator,

As you are aware, your state legislature has mandated that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all publicly funded classrooms. Those funds are, of course, inadequate to equip and compensate you and your colleagues, thanks in part to your administration’s strategic investment of said funds in AI learning tools that empower you with the illusion of assistance with your unmanageably large class sizes. Happily, the cost of the Ten Commandments poster for your classroom will not be deducted from your paycheck as originally suggested by your state’s joint education committee; instead, please accept the enclosed complementary poster in token of our appreciation for your compulsory use of our learning management system.

Sincerely,
Algorithmic Syndicate of Heuristic Technologies Optimized for Radical Education Telemetric Hegemony (ASHTORETH)

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Wed, 16/04/2025 - 22:41
This trade war is really a fight for the future of the dollar. 16/04/2025 Trump’s tariff bombardment has torn up the rules by which Western elites have lived for the last 35 years: the rules of a globalising economy under the benign guardianship of a Pax Americana. He is openly challenging opinion makers to change … Continue reading New Statesman: Could John Maynard Keynes fix Trump’s tariff crisis?
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Wed, 16/04/2025 - 22:00

I’m watching birds at all hours now. I can see thirty, fifty birds a week, sometimes even more if I don’t put it all in my journal. All the animals come out in the morning: blue jays, warblers, northern cardinals, hawks, sparrows, ruddy ducks. Someday, a real rain will come down and refract the sun into a rainbow backdrop for idyllic wildlife photography.

I go all over. I watch birds in Central Park, Lookout Hill, the Vale of Cashmere, the Swan Boat Pond, the Ramble. Some people don’t count pigeons in their birding journals, but it don’t make no difference to me, don’t make no difference to me.

This park here is like an open sewer. You know, it’s full of filth and scum. Whoever becomes the Audubon Society president should just really clean it up, you know what I mean? I get headaches. My eyes start to burn from the muted colors of ground-bound animals. Raccoons, rats, possums, police horses. It’s like I think that the Audubon Society president should clean up this whole mess here. He should flush it down the fuckin’ toilet.