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Coalition Senator, Linda Reynolds, has directed her team of lawyers to go after the winner of last night’s $100 million dollar Powerball. Claiming that the she had been deprived of the winning ticket. She also instructed her team of lawyers... Read More ›

As one wag quipped: We interrupt our coverage of the flawless Democratic National Convention to bring you the news that – shocker – JD Vance & his team remain *terrible* at this 1) he does not know how many donuts to order without help 2) his team picked and sent him into a place where the staff literally wants nothing to do with being on camera this is an awkward an off-the-record stop as you’ll ever see. You can sense his anger at that clerk for not wanting to be filmed and not knowing who he was. He’s an ass. Lol. Update:

TAKING an ocean dip on Daffodil Day was how a group of women from Coffs Memorial Pool’s Aquafit group showed their support for cancer research. Following the success of their first foray into winter waters last year, the women again joined the fundraising efforts of fitness instructor Simone Saunders. Advertise with News of The Area...

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TWO Melbourne comedians who have worked together for over 30 years performed to a very happy Coffs audience at the Jetty Theatre. “We are so well looked after at this theatre,” Brad Oakes told the News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone...

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PAUL Amos has officially announced his candidacy for a second term as Coffs Harbour’s mayor, launching the ‘Moose for Mayor’ campaign on Sunday at the Harbourside Markets. Mr Amos is supported by a host of familiar faces on the campaign trail, with incumbent councillors Scott Wolgamot, Julie Sechi and Sally Townley joining the incumbent mayor’s...

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I’m not sure how much longer I can take this fatuous nonsense. The Democrats have to put him away once and for all. David Frum compiled some of Trump’s foreign policy “achievements” He accepted the help of Russian spy agencies to win the presidency in 2016 … directed tens of millions of taxpayer and foreign government $ to his own businesses … https://axios.com/2024/01/04/report-trump-received-at-least-78m-in-foreign-payments-during-presidency… ordered a religious test on immigrants and visitors to the United States – rewrote it three times until a friendly Supreme Court disgraced the country by inscribing the rewritten ban into law … https://npr.org/2018/06/26/606481548/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban…. started trade wars not only with China, but against friends like the European Union, Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

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For Trump and Vance In “Hillbilly Elegy” JD Vance wrote about the steel Plant in MIddletown, Ohio that rescued his family from poverty and brought them into the middle class. It’s still there: Its future looks bright too, thanks in part to a grant of up to $500 million from the Biden administration. The money is aimed at helping its owners replace a coal-fired blast furnace so that steel can be produced with clean hydrogen and natural gas — improvements that would cut climate and air pollution and help ensure the plant stays open for another generation. But the political benefits for the Biden administration — and by extension Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee — are less clear. This is true not just in Middletown but in similar communities across the country that are on track to receive funding from either the Inflation Reduction Act or the bipartisan infrastructure law, arguably the two biggest domestic accomplishments of President Joe Biden’s time in the White House. Both measures remain largely unknown to the public, polling has shown.

Australia is not immune to the global trend to nationalism. Politicians here as elsewhere pepper their talk with terms such as “sovereignty”, “national values” and “our way of life”. These are all relative, only defined by reference to other peoples and other nations that are “not like us”. The uniqueness of Australian nationalism is that Continue reading »

I write as a child of Holocaust survivors because I am disturbed by the demagoguery engaged by the leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton, labelling hapless Palestinian refugees as potential terrorists. I quote from The Guardian article: “Peter Dutton has compared Hamas to the Nazis in an opinion piece that calls the registered terrorist organisation Continue reading »

At primary schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Australian children were prescribed textbooks with titles such as New Worlds to Conquer, and taught to admire the British Empire as a gift to the world. The theft and occupation of indigenous peoples’ land together with their enslavement and annihilation, was synonymous with progress and Continue reading »

The call for Bisan Owda’s nomination to be rescinded was “an incredible testament to the threat posed by a single young woman with an iPhone,” said one author. The head of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which nominated Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda for an Emmy Award for her documentary on life under Continue reading »

“When you’re siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you’re as insanely hawkish as it gets.” Celebrity progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night that Vice-President Kamala Harris “is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza”. There is literally no evidentiary basis anywhere for this assertion. She Continue reading »

The challenge we face with digital technology is not just managing it; it’s about what it’s doing to us. As of 15 August 2024, mobile phones have been banned in public schools across Australia. Anecdotally, most think this is a good idea. Then, last Monday, the ABC’s Q&A had a sensible debate on controlling digital Continue reading »

Peter Dutton’s politicised dog-whistling about visas for people fleeing the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza ignores the devastation and extreme risk for innocent civilians trapped in a violent conflict. In a crisis, moving away from danger is a natural and rational human response. While some people have the financial resources, immigration documentation and networks to get Continue reading »

One hopes that the story of Majdal Shams and its courageous people could prompt Australia’s policy makers to stand up for international law and take a principled stand against lies that exacerbate hatreds and fuel war talk. Continue reading »

Our friends at The Believer sent a trio of novelists, poets, and critics to the Windy City to report from inside and around the Democratic National Convention. Daily installments of this limited series, which is inspired by Esquire’s 1968 coverage, will run on The Believer’s website for the rest of the week. Today, we’re catching you up on recent events with a new installment by Suzanne Scanlon, who chronicles her second day on the convention floor.