The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change
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“Wombat grabber” is now the greatest Australian insult. To grab a wombat — look there’s just no coming back from that."
As media campaigning ramps up for the forthcoming election, Peter Dutton avoids the question of his polling while Media Watch reveals the Liberal Party connections of Freya Leach and Juice Media produces a satirical clip on majority government. On global tensions, Professor Keyu Jin from the London School of Economics speaks about China and the Continue reading »
“Foreign goods may get a little more expensive, but American goods are going to get cheaper; and you’re going to be helping Americans by buying American.”
— US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick
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Americans, it’s time to rejoice. We know that you have been forced to adopt a new lifestyle, one without eggs, cars, or winter coats. But who needs physical warmth when you can bask in the radiant glow of your unwavering patriotism? Your sacrifices today will make your countrymen wealthy tomorrow. Isn’t that the real American dream?
For too long, the greedy foreign businesses of this world have exploited honest American buyers by flooding our markets with functional and affordable goods. They’ve tricked us into thinking that we can have money for things like kitchen appliances, fashionable clothing, and avocados. No, Mexico, we do not want guac on that.
What a superpower sense tells us about evolutionary creativity
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Trump’s bid for regime change in Yemen should be anathema to both America Firsters and Democrats, but will anyone speak out?
The post Trump Reasserts U.S. as the World’s Policeman With Massive Yemen Escalation appeared first on The Intercept.
The Albanese Government is considering responding to the Trump administration’s tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium by placing a tariff on the Kardashian family. ”We were initially against retaliatory tariffs as the consumer is the one who pays the price,”... Read More ›
An Update Regarding the 2025 Open Source Initiative Elections
I've explained in other posts that I ran for the 2025 Open Source Initative Board of Directors in the “Affiliate” district.
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National Park Service workers who care for the White House were exempt from a wave of mass firings that gutted the agency.
The post Trump Fired Park Rangers — But Not the Ones Who Tend to the White House appeared first on The Intercept.
The Albanese Government has jammed itself by trying to not talk about the greatest threat to Australia’s future, but has now opened itself to the charge of playing politics with security issues. The absurdity was on full display in a front-page story last weekend, when The Saturday Paper reported that the government gave a secret Continue reading »
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have proven too gutless, so far, to speak frankly to Australians about the implications of the imposition of new tariffs by the US, the first of many, to be imposed on Australia. They have expressed some ritual regrets and said it was a poor reward for their sycophantic grovelling over Continue reading »
Democracy has just been overthrown in an EU nation for the first time ever – with the tacit backing of the European Union itself. Buckle up: if the pre-emptive coup in Romania is allowed to stand, this means that the EU has torn up its own rule book and welcomed a dictatorship into the community. Continue reading »
Why does Australia continue to have a rampant cost of living crisis? That’s the $300 billion question. The hard men of Australia’s economic press claim it’s because of inflated wages and low productivity. Yet evidence suggests it’s mainly because of our big four banks. We have a stubborn “cost of living crisis” as mainstream media Continue reading »
If Donald Trump has done nothing else, he should have convinced Australian strategic thinkers that the long-standing mantra of China-bad/America-good is no longer appropriate. It is testimony to how deeply held such views are within Canberra’s policymaking elites, however, that even someone rated as the “worst president ever” by American political scientists is unlikely to Continue reading »
Damien Kingsbury’s recent piece, Timor-Leste appears to abandon sustainability, recycles tired tropes from Australian academics bent on safeguarding Canberra’s interests in the Timor Sea. From bugged cabinet rooms to relentless critiques of Timor-Leste’s oil and gas plans, a pattern emerges: undermine Dili’s ambitions to tilt benefits toward Australia. Kingsbury’s latest “salvo” exposes not just bias Continue reading »
Is Trump mad? If declining to share the joys and troubles of the whole human race, to decline a seat at humanity’s common table is a form of madness – then yes, Donald J Trump is mad. What is madness? To order the confinement of a person for their safety and well-being, as well as Continue reading »
Something similar could be said about almost all Western policies except those which make the rich richer. “Is the policy working? No. Are we going to continue? Yes.”
