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WOOLGOOLGA Swimming Club members are frustrated about the poor state of their local swimming pool, the cost of lane hire and the limited opening times. It has also been unheated since the heat pump rusted out in 2021. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us...

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OAK Tree Retirement Village held its annual Spring Fashion Parade with all proceeds raised going to the Pink Silks Trust charity. A total of $2,621 was raised in a short few hours of fashion, fun and laughter, which has been presented to Tanya Johnson, the Chair and founder of Pink Silks. Advertise with News of...

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No amount of disinformation can hide the truth about why Putin wants to help Trump win again in 2024.

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Voices of dissent or reason are swatted away like annoying flies until the bs that is U.S. and Israeli propaganda dries in the sun and no longer stinks. Continue reading »

On October 11, I attended a vigil for Palestinians in Federation Square, Melbourne. The event did not attract politicians’ censure as it was sufficiently distanced in time from Jewish vigils on 7 October. In the week before 7 October, Labor and Coalition politicians criticised organisers of events to memorialise the slaughter of more than 42,000 Continue reading »

The 2024 Nobel Prize for economics has gone to two economists for work on why some poor nations prosper while others fail and remain poor. But it is their 540 page account that fails, by not mentioning the real causes that are foundational in the global economic system. The main statement of the case is Continue reading »

In 1962, a columnist with the Melbourne Herald noted that a 16th century sculpture of Madonna and Child would be on that year’s Christmas stamp. He went on to praise ‘Our Lady of the Aborigines’ as ’a real Australian Madonna and Child,’ before asking, ‘How about it for next year?’ The painting was by Karel Continue reading »

A few years ago Ken Haddock, a retired social worker, discovered that a legendary folk tale of Melbourne Catholicism was false. For decades Father Wally Silvester (1919-2005), a charismatic Pallottine priest, has been treated with awe as a former U-boat commander, and hailed as a war hero who defied Hitler by saving enemy Russian sailors. Continue reading »

The Conservative Party's new leader has the potential to do a lot of damage, whether or not she wins the next general election

Pregnant and bleeding? Don’t mess with Texas. Texas’ severe abortion laws notched another preventable death from a pregnancy gone wrong. ProPublica reported the death of Josseli Barnica, 28, in 2021 on Wednesday. She died days after the state’s S.B. 8 “heartbeat bill” took effect. Bloomberg Opinion asked: “Texas’ Abortion Ban Killed Josseli Barnica. Who Will Be Next?” Nevaeh Crain, it seems. On Friday, ProPublica told the story of her tragic death in MAGAstan after the Dobbs decision in June 2022 triggered an effective abortion ban in Texas. Crain was an early victim: Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before. The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps.

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Ferdia Lennon’s novel Glorious Exploits brings to life an episode from the Peloponnesian War, when seven thousand Athenian soldiers were captured and crowded into a quarry outside Syracuse after a failed attack on the city. As Fintan O’Toole suggests in his review in our November 7, 2024, issue, the book “makes us feel like its story is […]

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• Sedan 2020, då det här decenniet av allt större klyftor inleddes, har världens fem rikaste män mer än fördubblat sina förmögenheter medan nästan fem miljarder människor har fått se sina tillgångar minska. • Om de fem rikaste männen skulle göra av med varsin miljon USD om dagen skulle det ta 476 år att spendera […]

Automatic airfare refunds finally take off, the Feds slap a big fine on Apple Card, Lyft must stop lying, and tribes tackle orphaned wells.

Former Doctor Who showrunner and still uberfan Steven Moffat discusses the ways the series has created safe scares for children for decades.

The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report

Rachel Reeves’ first budget as Chancellor has put to bed the debate on whether Starmer’s government will attempt to return to austerity. Reeves was adamant that her budget meant austerity was over — and with government borrowing set to increase by more than £50 billion this financial year, it is hard to argue with that […]

Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte says she’d oppose new abortion restrictions in New Hampshire — but she hasn’t disavowed her previous anti-abortion stances.

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I know it’s the day after Halloween but it’s still pumpkin season: They did the mash! The elephant family stomped and snacked on over 1,200 lbs of pumpkins this morning during our Squishing of the Squash!