We know that after the Second World War, as nations embraced their major national policy statements (White Papers in many countries) to build their societies after the disruption of the War and the Great Depression, income inequality fell significantly. Since the 1970s, the post WW2 trend has been somewhat reversed in many (but not all)…
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If the popularity of the Squid Game TV series and The Hunger Games film and book franchise are any indication, working people around the world tend to sympathise with characters trapped in a sadistic, unwinnable game. And why not? In this moment of capitalism, most of us feel that our chances of securing a good […]
Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the “Two Minutes Hate,” aroused among the public by threatening images on giant video screens. Within just 30 seconds, Orwell wrote, “a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people... Read more
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Australian opposition leader, Peter ‘Donald’ Dutton, has ordered his right-hand person, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to get in contact with Donald Trump and do a deal to make Australia the 51st state of America ”Australia needs strong leadership and I am... Read More ›
Here’s contributor Natalie Palumbo’s report on a recent screening of Kevin Macdonald’s documentary film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s famed benefit concert and their activities in New York’s Greenwich Village in the early 1970s. … It’s Thursday afternoon at … Continue reading
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 13, 2025
by Tony Wikrent
Trump not violating any law
‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’
‘We’re Not Stopping’: Trump Border Czar Vows to Ignore Judges
[The Daily Beast, via MSN 03-18-2025]
Trump stands up for badly-behaved credit unions, one of America’s biggest unions stands up for tariffs, and more from The Lever this week.
Alexandra Hall Hall exposes Trump's increasing attacks on free speech and his weaponising the judicial system against former officials who have been critical
We are here today because democracy is on death row, because the treasured right to dissent is at gunpoint, because your capacity to do journalism is under fire. I remember when I came to Britain as a student in 1978 how overjoyed I was to be in a country where I felt safe from the […]
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"We stand by our reporting and the questions it raises around whether Chinese-gifted buildings were built to code, which came from multiple sources."
The “Tesla Takedown” protests reveal a major vulnerability of the Trump regime.
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On 11th April 2025, Melissa Benn, Jeremy Corbyn and Yanis Varoufakis addressed an audience at the University of Westminster dedicated to the memory of Tony Benn – almost 100 years from his birth. This is what Yanis had to say about Tony’s legacy at that event. (Click icon above for audio)
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Thanks to James Wimberley for prompting me to write this, and alerting me to the data on China’s emissions Most of the news these days is bad, and that’s true of the climate. Even as climatic disasters worsen, the Trump regime is doing its best to dismantle US and global efforts to decarbonize our energy […]
FORTY-six cyclists from the Coffs Coast, making up Team Faircloth and Reynolds, are in the last stages of preparation for the Tour de Rocks fundraising ride from Armidale to Woolgoolga on 24-26 April. The three-day ride, covering 260 kilometres, sees hundreds of cyclists raising a minimum of $250 each to help raise awareness of cancer...
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THE world’s fastest bird, the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), paid a flying visit to the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden in Coffs Harbour, then returned to have something to eat. Though found across Australia, the Peregrine Falcon is not particularly common and is rarely seen, which is why a visitor to the Botanic Garden was...
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AT noon last Saturday (6 April) “Nikki” the three-finned green sea turtle was released into the ocean off North Wall in Coffs Harbour. It had been brought back to health at the Coffs Coast Wildlife Sanctuary (CCWS) after a near fatal entanglement 18 months ago. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...
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