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THE Beyond the Badge retraining and support program is running a three-day Career Transition course in Coffs Harbour in early 2024 and is asking for expressions of interest in attending. It is open to current or former military, police, ambulance, fire and rescue and other first responder personnel. Advertise with News of The Area today....

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TWENTY-FIVE years of dedication to local radio was recognised for three members of the 2 AIR FM team at their recent Annual General Meeting (AGM). Michele Smart, Olga Moller and Cliff Hudson were each presented with a 25 Year Continuous Active Service Award by President Garry Costa. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s...

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In the updated Doctor Who docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time, William Hartnell (David Bradley) sees Ncuti Gatwa - not Matt Smith.

Episode 6 in our new Manga series – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money – is now available. Have a bit of fun with it and circulate it to those who you think will benefit … The Smith Family are a middle-class family living in a city somewhere in the world. The second-generation…

Not yet Kevin Drum has an interesting observation: How is Joe Biden doing these days? Courtesy of CNN, here are his approval ratings from a variety of national polls over the past few months: From August through October Biden’s approval dropped about 1.5% per month. Since the Israel-Gaza war broke out a month ago, his approval has improved by about half a percent. I’d like to generate a chart like this just for young Democrats, but I can’t find the data to do it. My suspicion is that Biden has been hemorrhaging approval from young voters for a long time and the Israel-Gaza war hasn’t really had a big effect. But I don’t know that. In any case, even if it has had an effect, it’s apparently been counterbalanced by increased approval from older voters. Taken as a whole, the war has rather surprisingly had only a very small effect on Biden’s approval, and probably a positive one.

Labor’s support for Israel’s horrific war on Gaza is creating tensions within the party. Solidarity spoke to one member about why she quit the ALP.

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The ones who love him anyway Brian Beutler on this new “relationship” between Trump and Univison. If you haven’t read this already, you’ll want to. It’s left Democrats deeply unsettled. They were surprised as everyone to see Univision offer Donald Trump a fawning, hour-long, primetime interview earlier this month, particularly after the abuse he heaped on the network during his presidency and first campaign; they were stunned when Univision summarily canceled ads the Biden campaign had purchased to run during the interview, citing an undisclosed policy the network, by all appearances, adopted special for Trump; they’re aghast that Univision tried to create the false impression that it approached the Biden campaign with the same offer; and now they’re really worried, because they see Univision prevailing on local affiliates to pull popular programming off the air to carry Trump rallies live.  They’re upset, and understandably so, about the effect that transforming the most watched Spanish-language news network into a pro-Trump propaganda outlet will have on the election.

If you’re an American who celebrates, I hope you’re having a good day, and if you’ve got the weekend off, enjoy the long weekend!

THIS Christmas Sawtell will again hear the sounds of a traditional Christmas as many well-loved carols are sung on Wednesday 20 December 2023. This is the 17th year of the Sawtell Uniting Church Carols by Candlelight, a well supported community event that marks the week leading up to Christmas. Advertise with News of The Area...

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On Monday one shot 4 people in Ohio The mass shooting on Monday garnered hardly a mention in the news because the shooter only managed to wound four people before he killed himself. No biggie in America’s shooting gallery. But it is worth noting that it appears he had an ideological motive: The man suspected of shooting four people at an Ohio Walmart earlier this week was inspired by racially motivated violent extremist ideology, according to authorities. Benjamin Charles Jones, 20, of Dayton, Ohio, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a Beavercreek, Ohio, Walmart after he shot two Black females, a white female and a white male Monday, the FBI stated.  One victim remained in critical condition, while three others suffered from non-life-threatening injuries.

The BBC updated the Doctors lineup poster; a Paul McGann-narrated 60th Anniversary trailer includes looks at Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson

Thanksgiving menu at the Plaza Hotel 1899, courtesy of Michael Beschloss: I would have loved to watch that kitchen in action.

Recently married root rat, bored Barnaby Joyce, has taken up a new hobby, investigating conspiracy theories. ”I was sitting at home last Friday night, bored out of my brain, when I decided to look at one of the many millions... Read More ›

Moms For Liberty paying off their friends It’s all one big grift: A Pennsylvania school board that banned books, Pride flags and transgender athletes slipped a last-minute item into their final meeting before leaving office, hastily awarding a $700,000 exit package to the superintendent who supported their agenda. But the Democratic majority that swept the conservative Moms For Liberty slate out of office hopes to block the unusual — they say illegal — payout and bring calm to the Central Bucks School District, whose affluent suburbs and bucolic farms near Philadelphia have been roiled by infighting since the 2020 pandemic. “People are really sick of the embarrassing meetings, the vitriol, they’re tired of our district being in the news for all the wrong reasons. And … the students are aware of what’s been going on, particularly our LGBTQ students and their friends and allies,” said Karen Smith, a Democrat who won a third term on the board.

With the expansion of all services of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – no matter that it is consistent with a defensive posture – China’s every strategic move now is rendered totally unacceptable after passing through a prism designed and issued on a complementary basis by the US. Hyper-suspicion is the attitude and threat inflation Continue reading »

The world watches the destruction of Gaza as 13,000 thousand Palestinians are killed including 5,600 children. The world watches as Gazan hospitals are invaded, patients ordered to flee south where there is neither water, food nor safety. The world watches while Israeli spokespersons claim they never target civilians, and then comes the propagandist fig leaf Continue reading »

As a member of the Chinese Australian community, the Di Sahn Duong trial is yet another one of those “Here we go again!” cases that disconcerts and exacerbates the subliminal anxiety we bear whenever Australia’s relationship with China sours. Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when PM Albanese made a successful visit to Continue reading »

17 November 2023 will go down in history as the day when planet Earth reached its first two degree plus temperature anomaly relative to the preindustrial baseline. It was also the day that I was carted off to hospital in an ambulance after spending over two weeks on a climate hunger strike on the lawns Continue reading »

Last week Australians were forced to suffer through the spectacle of their parliament being dragged to a new low as the Coalition hammered the Labor government for not being better prepared for the prospect that the Commonwealth might lose the most recent High Court case about whether indefinite detention of refugees is unlawful or unconstitutional. Continue reading »

“Gough Whitlam was an Australian democrat. He passionately believed in our institutions; the supremacy of parliament, the independence and integrity of the judiciary and the separation of powers to curb possible abuses by the executive government. In the dismissal these institutions failed us. Those with responsibility deceived us. Tradition and conventions built over centuries were Continue reading »

Four in 10 Palestinian men spend time in Israel jails. Hamas says it wants to exchange captured Israelis for them. In golf carts, vans and on motorbikes, Hamas fighters have taken dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers back to the Gaza Strip after their attack on Israel on Saturday. As Israel’s fighter jets bomb the Continue reading »