On June 3, 2025 Australia’s minimum wage setting authority – the Fair Work Commission (FWC) issued their decision in the – Annual Wage Review 2025 – which provides for wage increases for the lowest-paid workers – around 0.7 per cent of employees (around 88 thousand) in Australia. In turn, around 20.7 per cent of all…
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Behavioral economics is still ‘in a relationship’ with orthodox economics and, in a relationship, one makes compromises … We all know how stubborn the other side in this relationship is: standard economics will always ‘rationalize’ behavior wherever it can and will only recognize ‘irrationality’ when there is clear and convincing evidence of it. Understandably, behavioral […]
The Trump administration has charged the surveillance firm Palantir with agglomerating the US population’s personal data across government agencies, raising alarm about a centralized spying tool targeting hundreds of millions without oversight. Wall Street responded to the news by sending Palantir’s stock price to unprecedented heights. During an end-of-year investor call this February, Palantir co-founder and militant Zionist Alex Karp bragged that his company was making a financial killing by enabling mass murder. “Palantir is here to disrupt and make […]
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The state is back, and it’s building guns. With the Trump administration railing against European ‘freeloading’ on US military spending, European politicians have announced plans to spend billions on rearmament. The US economy has taken a beating as the tech bubble has burst and Trump’s tariffs have raised the spectre of slower growth and higher […]
New court documents reveal how the feds tried to unmask the Columbia students — and got blocked by federal judges on First Amendment grounds.
The post How the FBI Sought a Warrant to Search Instagram of Columbia Student Protesters appeared first on The Intercept.
Travel is about meeting new people. My semester abroad taught me that if you travel halfway around the world, you can make friends with all sorts of people who go to the same college as you.
Studying abroad showed me that Europeans have a real work-life balance. In a typical day in Europe, you wake up, eat lunch, go to a museum, and then hit the town. Nobody is stressed about their job. That’s the benefit of a strong welfare state. Everyone is young and has lots of free time.
Europeans always wear high-quality shoes. On an average day of guided tours, museum visits, and pub crawls, a European can walk over ten miles (sorry, kilometers!). All that walking keeps Europeans thinner than us Americans.
Europe has better restaurants than the United States. Nobody cooks at home in Europe, because there are so many fun restaurants. Dining out is more affordable in Europe because everyone uses their dad’s credit card.
The federal watchdog tasked with overseeing credit unions has no authority to regulate how they’re using artificial intelligence.
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says Nigel Farage's party could 'undo Wales's fledgling democracy' as polling shows dramatic shift away from Labour
In a touching post, Doctor Who star Varada Sethu had kind words for "my beloved Doctor" Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, the fans, and others.
Willy Massay describes the horror of Gaza’s hospitals: children suffocating without electricity, no medicine, and Israeli soldiers shooting boys in the genitals. His account is a chilling indictment of genocide as it unfolds.
The post “So They’ll Never Have Children”: American Nurse Says Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot Boys in the Penis appeared first on MintPress News.
1. Relive these memories from this day seven years ago.
2. Make sure you pack an umbrella, it looks like it might rain this afternoon.
3. I’d leave a little early for Claire’s dance recital today. The rain will make traffic heavier than usual.
4. I’ve compiled a list of seventeen articles on perimenopause that you might find interesting.
5. Tickets to Fort Lauderdale are the cheapest they’ve been in two weeks. Would you like to see flights?
6. How about a haircut before your trip to Florida? Here are fourteen different hairstyles that could make you look younger and skinnier than
your current haircut. I’d go with the third one.
7. I’ve gone ahead and made a hair appointment with Sherry for the day before your flight.
8. Teeth-whitening strips were on sale at Costco, so I went ahead and ordered you five boxes.
9. Don’t frown or you’ll get wrinkles.
10. Would you like to see this week’s top-rated wrinkle creams on the Sephora app?
Anthony Albanese’s election win has given him a dominant position in parliament, with the Coalition reduced to a demoralised rump.
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Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party won a sweeping victory in May. The Liberals suffered a historic wipe-out and the Coalition between the Liberal and National parties is now in crisis.
The post Despite sweeping victory Albanese only offers more of the same first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The Greens’ unexpected election losses, wiping out three of their four lower house MPs including leader Adam Bandt, has triggered questioning about the party’s direction.
The post Greens balance of power politics a road to nowhere first appeared on Solidarity Online.
CFMEU Administrator Mark Irving has moved to tighten his grip on the union following Labor’s win in the federal election in May.
The post Resistance continues as Administration tightens grip on CFMEU first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Universities across the country are rolling out savage job cuts.
The post Savage new job cuts planned at UTS and Macquarie Uni first appeared on Solidarity Online.
A bill aimed at improving abortion access has passed NSW Parliament, allowing nurses and midwives to prescribe abortion pills up to nine weeks gestation.
The post Step forward for abortion access in NSW but major barriers remain first appeared on Solidarity Online.