- by Shaun O’Dwyer
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Something that’s bothered me for a while is the relationship between politics and friendship. Not just close friendship but also people who you are happy to hang out with socially. Some topics – I’d include Brexit, trans rights and Israel/Palestine – are especially divisive in that people who disagree on these seem to find it […]
The CRE market is navigating several challenges, from a looming maturity wall that means repricing at higher interest rates to a softening of market fundamentals.
Biden's plan to cozy up to Arab dictators is right out of Donald Trump's playbook — but even worse.
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Climate leadership is not the vote loser its opponents like to portray it as – but the danger for the climate movement is assuming public support will endure forever, argues Russell Warfield
"I would never have known about this and no one would have cared if she didn't demand to have it removed. Now it's arguably more valuable because of the attention..."
Jennifer Nadel, co-founder of Compassion in Politics, argues that Westminster’s dysfunctional system under a potential Labour government could leave the door open to far-right politics in the years ahead
With the rise of Bowlero, private equity has come for bowling — will your neighborhood alley ever be the same?
KEEPING the doors open is the driving aim of the Upper Orara Hall committee who maintain and manage the historic 116-year-old building. A morning tea last Thursday saw committee members celebrating the installation of a new water tank with Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh, thanks to a $10,980 Regional NSW Community Grant. Advertise with...
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A WOOLGOOLGA property with a long history of unpaid rates and charges to the City of Coffs Harbour was sold at auction on Friday. The hammer came down for the four-bedroom two-bathroom property at $555,000. Around 70 properties were slated for the auction at the Hub2 at South Coffs Harbour, however all but one were...
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After all these years of trying, the insights provided by Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) still haven’t cut through. One doesn’t even need to accept the complete box of MMT knowledge to know that, at least, some of it must be factual. For example, how much brainpower does a person need to realise that a government…
A transparency review by Sense about Science has found that three out of six policy measures failed to meet the test of whether a motivated citizen can see what evidence the Government has used or assessed in its decision-making
Newsmax host Todd Starnes wants Trump to make a run for the border: Here’s Trump sputtering today: Maybe his lawyers didn’t tell him that they had he ability to call witnesses too? The jury asked for Pecker testimony to be read back to them today. The consensus among the legal beagles is that the prosecution is likely happy about that since it means they are looking at corroboration of Cohen’s testimony. We don’t know but it’s likely that Trump isn’t going to sleep well tonight.
What we can learn from the history of maritime folk music.
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Media Matters looked at the media coverage of the Hillary Clinton “basket of deplorables” comment back in 2016 and Trump’s “vermin” comment this year. It shows that they only learned that they shouldn’t treat Trump as badly as they treated Clinton. Great. Trump benefits from the fact that he says so many disgusting, reprehensible things that the media no longer sees it as newsworthy. That is perverse.
Culture, identity, ethnicity, gender, and religiosity should never be accepted as a basis for intolerance in political and civic aspects. In a modern democratic society, people belonging to these different groups must be able to rely on society to protect them against the abuses of intolerance. All citizens must have the freedom and right to […]
Would breaking up the Live Nation monopoly really improve an inequitable music industry?