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Regulating speech at law is much like regulating breath. At what point is an intake of air deemed inappropriate to the body and worthy of rationing? When will exhalation be allowed? The very idea that speech requires ordering and control is the first step to preventing its exercise. Death, in this case to freedom of…

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ON a day filled with emotion, superhuman effort, humbling support and passion, the Coffs Harbour Snappers RUFC pulled off their 100km run around the Coffs Coast – raising almost $18,000 for Redkite. On Saturday morning at 4am, a core group of runners set off from The Jetty with support cyclist Jackson Adams. Advertise with News...

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Foreign or global economic and financial shocks can be significant drivers of economic outcomes in small open economies such as Australia, and are therefore a considerable source of uncertainty to the Australian economic outlook. Examining the extent to which global shocks affect the Australian financial system and economy and the channels through which these shocks operated over the 1990–2019 period, we find that global shocks drive considerable variation in the exchange rate and the cash rate, but a smaller proportion of variation in economic variables like real GDP. This suggests that, over our sample, the exchange rate and domestic monetary policy have effectively buffered the Australian economy from global shocks. Unlike some other recent literature on global spillovers, we do not find the Australian banking system to be a substantial channel of financial and economic spillovers to Australia.

COFFS Harbour lifeguards say their services are stretched to the limit, putting the lives of beachgoers at risk and threatening their own health and wellbeing. The United Services Union (USU), on behalf of the lifeguards, has filed proceedings against their employer, City of Coffs Harbour Council, in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) to try...

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It’s Wednesday and as usual I cover a few topics briefly rather than provide a deeper analysis of a single issue. Today, I consider yesterday’s RBA monetary policy decision which held interest rates at elevated levels despite the inflation rate dropping towards the lower range of its targetting band. The RBA has lost credibility and…

So, Mangione assassinated Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, the US health insurance company with the highest denial rate in the industry.

It’s pretty clear he did it, he was found with a manifesto which amounts to a confession.

Will the Real Americans in Trump country put their money where their votes are or will they fight as hard as they usually do against Democrats when they make even the slightest attempt to have kids eat vegetables or go outside to play: The Archer Daniels Midland wet mill on the outskirts of Decatur, Ill., rises like an industrial behemoth from the frozen, harvested cornfields of Central Illinois. Steam billowed in the 20-degree cold last week, as workers turned raw corn into sweet, ubiquitous high-fructose corn syrup. Three miles away, a Primient mill, which sprawls across 400 acres divided by North 22nd Street, was doing the same. To Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services, this bedraggled city — set deep in Trump country — is the belly of the agribusiness beast, churning out products that he says poison America, rendering its children obese and its citizens chronically ill. To the workers here, those mills — the largest in the world — are their livelihoods.

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In the wake of the murder of United Health CEO Brian Thompson, the New York Times (NYT) has come forth with a remarkable piece of propaganda designed to garner sympathy for Mr Thompson and his family. I, for one, find it very difficult to muster sympathy, good will and empathy for this ghoul who made…

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Eric Trump at the Bitcoin Conference This is simply jaw dropping. They aren’t even pretending anymore. The presidency and Donald Trump’s personal finances are fully merged: Eric Trump flew across the world to headline a cryptocurrency conference in the United Arab Emirates this week and told thousands of enthusiastic attendees that he and his father, the U.S. president-elect, were effectively working in tandem to push crypto, a business sector the family is directly invested in. The message was notable because it contrasted drastically with the promise the family made when Donald J. Trump entered the White House four years ago, to keep business and government operations separate. Eric Trump said he had even phoned his father — “Pops,” he said he calls him — to celebrate when the price of Bitcoin hit $100,000 after the president-elect announced he intended to appoint a crypto-friendly lawyer as the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates the industry that the family now profits from. “You’re going to have the most pro-crypto president in the history of America,” Eric Trump told the crowd.

Russell T. Davies teased that a weapon from Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor era will play a role in Doctor Who Season 2 and much more.

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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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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Australians have woken up this morning (pun not intended), wondering what culture war they will have inflicted upon them today by Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, in an effort to distract the Nation from his dud nuclear plan. ”Has he done... Read More ›