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A FACT-FILLED fifteen-minute workshop on how to use the iNaturalist app is being offered by the Friends of the Botanic Garden’s fauna team and Coffs by Nature program as the Great Southern BioBlitz (GSB) weekend gets into full swing. The workshops take place on Saturday 25 November between 9am and 1pm at the North Coast...

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AN intergenerational music-making program running in Toormina is generating a heartwarming outcome for oldies and youngsters alike. Toormina’s The Link venue has joined forces with Stephanie Sims from Uko Ono to bring together seniors from Marian Grove and young people from Mary Help of Christians school to collaborate and make music. Advertise with News of...

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CAUTION should be taken when entering the Boambee Creek Estuary area, according to Southern Cross University’s Professor Kirsten Benkendorff. “In particular, stay out of the dead mangrove areas where you can see pools of black mud,” she told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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BBC released two new images from the Ncuti Gatwa & Millie Gibson-starring Doctor Who Christmas day special, along with a brief overview.

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Three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont this weekend by a long white man. They don’t know yet whether this shooting was a hate crime although it sure looks like a reasonable suspicion. There was no other apparent motivation. From what we’re gathering, the shooter was a self-described libertarian with some possibly radical views but there isn’t any evidence yet of a particular interest in the crisis in Israel. His mother says he is religious and reads the Bible but he isn’t a far right evangelical as far as we know. At this point his motives are a mystery since he hasn’t said anything to the authorities. The kids’ families are distraught, of course. They thought they were sending their boys to a safer place: The uncle of a Palestinian college student who was shot on a Vermont street over the weekend said Monday that his nephew left his home in the West Bank to seek safety in the U.S. as he studied. Now, that uncle says his family feels “betrayed” after Kinnan Abdalhamid was nearly killed as he walked on a street in Burlington, Vermont, with two of his friends on Saturday night.

New disclosures add to the growing body of evidence indicating many Israelis who died on October 7 were killed by the Israeli military. Meanwhile, the Israeli government has muzzled captives freed from Gaza to prevent further damage to the official narrative. Firsthand testimony by admittedly inexperienced Israeli tank operators reveals orders to open fire upon Israeli communities when Palestinian militants breached the fences encircling Gaza on October 7. A glowing profile of an all-female tank company by Israel’s N12 News […]

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Today his lawyers filed a response to the gag order and MSNBC’s Lisa Rubin wrote: Trump’s team has filed its reply on the stay of the New York gag order. There is no response to, much less mention of, the court system’s documentation of the serious and extensive threats to Judge Engoron and his law clerk. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=7vzJVI9/QEvXWmks3wQqTA==… The sole new content concerns Engoron’s rapid rejection of Trump and the other defendants’ motion for a mistrial, despite the attorney general’s position that full briefing and argument would be helpful. Team Trump’s implication is that the same unacceptable bias that drove Engoron to enter the gag order fueled his outright refusal to hear the mistrial motion. So it’s another day and another grievance for Trump without even attempting to distance himself from or disclaim responsibility for the threat environment he created and then inflamed. Sound familiar? It sure does. They aren’t even trying to make serious legal arguments in this case. This is now purely a political exercise.

The Prize Committee is delighted to announce that the article by Ainsley Elbra, John Mikler & Hannah Murphy-Gregory titled “The Big Four and corporate tax governance: From global dis-harmony to national regulatory incrementalism,” published in the journal, Global Policy, has won the 2023 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize.

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The Coalition has demanded that the Albanese Government immediately change the law to allow those under the age of 40 to be able to sell their kidneys in order to get into the housing market. ”What sort of society does... Read More ›

Dr. Joseph Ladapo is a charlatan and DeSantis doesn’t care Ron DeSantis should be disqualified from ever holding office again on this basis alone: Professors at the University of Florida had high hopes for Joseph Ladapo. But they quickly lost faith in him. In 2021, the university was fast-tracking him into a tenured professorship as part of his appointment as Florida’s surgeon general. Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick for the state’s top medical official, dazzled them with his Harvard degree and work as a research professor at New York University and UCLA. Professors had anticipated Ladapo would bring at least $600,000 in grant funding to his new appointment from his previous job at UCLA. That didn’t happen. They expected he would conduct research on internal medicine, as directed by his job letter. Instead, he edited science research manuscripts, gave a guest lecture for grad students and wrote a memoir about his vaccine skepticism. Ladapo’s work at UF has generally escaped scrutiny.

How the Israel lobby moved to quash rising dissent in Congress against Israel’s apartheid regime.

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Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons posted their thoughts on the Beep the Meep-starring Doctor Who 60th Anniversary episode "The Star Beast."

If Trump manages to carry out his plans in a second term, it will be catastrophic A professor of public policy sounds the alarm about Trump’s 2024 agenda: I study government bureaucracies. This is not normally a key political issue. Right now, it is, and everyone should be paying attention. Donald Trump, the former president and current candidate, puts it in apocalyptic terms: “Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state.” This is not an empty threat. He has a real and plausible plan to utterly transform American government. It will undermine the quality of that government and it will threaten our democracy. A second Trump administration would be very different from the first. Mr. Trump’s blueprint for amassing power has been developed by a constellation of conservative organizations that surround him, led by the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025. This plan would elevate personal fealty to Mr. Trump as the central value in government employment, processes and institutions. It has three major parts. The first is to put Trump loyalists into appointment positions. Mr.

Pearl asserts, while some RCM (Rubin Causal Models) theorists deny, that so-called “non-manipulable” variables can be causes (Pearl 2019; Holland 1986, 2008). Race and gender, which arguably cannot be experimentally manipulated, are key examples of such variables … My response is that although advocates of the frameworks adopt conflicting positions regarding certain variables, these positions […]

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