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The Three Showrunners Unite! Russell T. Davies shared an image with Steven Moffat & Chris Chibnall at Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration.

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ON Friday 6 October from 7pm, the Coffs Hotel will hum with the high octane sounds of Floyd Vincent and the Temple Dogs. From the age of ten when he first picked up the classical guitar through to his first professional band at the age of fourteen, Floyd Vincent has been totally immersed in the...

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ON SATURDAY 14 October at 6.30pm, Sawtell Cinema will screen Disconnect Me, an Australian doco recording the outcomes of independent filmmaker Alex Lykos disconnecting from his digital devices for 30 days. We call it our phone, but the mobile device we carry around with us connects us to so many services and opportunities from a...

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LIFE drawing is the main event at Artists in the Garden on Sunday 1 October. “It doesn’t matter if you have never drawn in your life – life drawing is an amazing experience – it gives you permission to look, translating into your own unique drawing expression. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s...

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Episode 15 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode, we consider the recently released White Paper on Full Employment by the Australian government, which purports to define its labour market policy agenda for the foreseeable future. We juxtapose it with the 1945 White Paper on Full…

He’s upset that the RNC is hosting debates he refuses to attend: The former president cloaked his effort to shut down opponents by claiming to be concerned about the Republican Party. Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the cancellation of further GOP debates, perhaps hoping to deprive his rivals of a national stage under the guise of what he claims is best for the Republican Party. “They have to stop the debates. Because it is just bad for the Republican Party. They are not going anywhere. There is not going to be a breakout candidate,” Trump told the right-wing Daily Caller. “I am very concerned about the RNC not being able to do their job,” the multi-indicted frontrunner added about the Republican National Committee (RNC). His comments doubled down on his campaign’s order Wednesday to halt the debates, which Trump has studiously avoided while he enjoys a large polling lead. He confirmed to the Daily Caller that he would also not attend the third one. “It’s clear that President Trump alone can defeat Biden,” campaign adviser Chris LaCivita said in an earlier statement.

THE GALAMBILA Aboriginal Health Service in Coffs Harbour has played host to the announcement of a landmark agreement to focus on Aboriginal health outcomes via a new partnership in primary health care. On Thursday 21 September, six North Coast Aboriginal Medical Services in partnership with Healthy North Coast launched the agreement that will place an...

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I’m excited to say that you can now follow my WordPress account on the fediverse! This is really exciting news; the ActivityPub plugin on WordPress is starting to roll out to WP users. To follow me in Mastodon or another fediverse service, use my account on this blog, @evanprodromou@evanp.me . Connecting these two parts of … Continue reading This blog is now on the Fediverse! →

A rugby league referee has copped the maximum $10,000 fine after an angry outburst bagging every error made by the players during a semi finals match he officiated last weekend. “I’m doing my best out there trying to ensure every... Read More ›

This from Punchbowl is just astonishing. It represents a failure of education that a faction of Republicans has absolutely no knowledge of history and is too stupid and arrogant to listen to anyone who does: One week after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a plea for additional American aid, a sobering reality has set in on Capitol Hill — Congress has no clear path, as of this moment, to approve new funding for the embattled U.S. ally. The issue has become tied up in the dispute over government funding, with Speaker Kevin McCarthy refusing to include new Ukraine aid in any stopgap spending measure over fears that a conservative revolt could cost him his post. In some ways, McCarthy’s own standing has become tied to this issue. Ukraine in general has become such a charged issue for House Republicans that party leaders late Wednesday night stripped a small portion of Ukraine aid from their version of the FY2024 Defense spending bill. That came just hours after the House overwhelmingly defeated an amendment to strip this exact same funding from the bill. The vote was 330-104.

wow this new biden ad is brilliant pic.twitter.com/9zcuq9Qlp9 — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2023

Hatred of China is now the single issue that unites Democrats and Republicans. Having a perceived foe helps unite a deeply divided America internally, unless, of course, it becomes a losing cause. This three-part series explores how US narratives on the ‘China threat’ have become entrenched in the West, and why China is not a Continue reading »

Julian Assange may be only weeks away from being extradited to the US where he will face prosecution under the US Espionage Act that could see him imprisoned for 175 years, even though he is an Australian citizen, not a US citizen! With extradition so near, the campaign to save Assange has reached its highest Continue reading »

Creation of the Department of Home Affairs was a disaster for Australia’s immigration policy and administration. The impending departure of its architect, Secretary Mike Pezzullo, enables the Albanese Government to bring that experiment to an end. Every former immigration officer I know thought Pezzullo’s experiment would be a failure. Making immigration a largely law enforcement Continue reading »

A good case exists for sacking the head of the Home Affairs department Michael Pezzullo for taking sides in internal political party matters among other activities, as recently reported by the Nine media group. There is an even stronger case that Sir Arthur Tange, the head of the Defence department should have been sacked in Continue reading »

In 1996 I was fortunate enough to be involved in the Centenary of the 1895 Bathurst Peoples Constitutional Convention. The 1896 event was a grassroots gathering unlike the more official conventions of the 1890s. The colonies had not yet federated and become states of a Commonwealth of Australia, and the document which eventually emerged in Continue reading »

For the past one month or so, my wife has been on a self-guided tour of Europe, visiting friends and scenic spots. She told me on the phone recently that she could not help but argue with her friends and new acquaintances when they tried to convince her that China would “collapse” in two to Continue reading »

Over the weekend, Israel marked Yom Kippur when it is supposed to atone for its collective sins. Yet Israel never thinks to ask for forgiveness from its biggest victims: the Palestinians. These lines are being written in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. This time around, the day is Continue reading »