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WOOLGOOLGA District Orchid Society’s much-loved annual Orchid Show and Garden Expo has grown to become a two-day event. The free show is open to the public on Saturday, September 30 at 9.00am to 3.00pm, and Sunday October 1, from 9.00am to 2.30pm. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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Taylor Swift’s new post urging her followers to register to vote has led to record-breaking voter registration numbers. At least 157,041 eligible voters visited the registration site in one day, including a 115% increase in 18-year-old registrations.https://t.co/GzLxLzFjuL pic.twitter.com/0ULCaQgo4x — No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) September 25, 2023

Workers at the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne have voted up a new enterprise agreement, ending 16 months of bargaining that saw strikes for the first time in the 93-year-old anti-poverty charity’s history.

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And it’s the same one Hunter Biden violated The Daily Beast has the story: In a PR stunt gone terribly wrong, former President Donald Trump went gun shopping on Monday with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and asked to buy a Glock pistol on camera—which would have brazenly violated the very same law that recently landed Hunter Biden criminal charges. Federal law prohibits anyone under indictment from attempting to buy a firearm. Trump has been criminally indicted four times in as many jurisdictions—Atlanta, Miami, New York, and Washington—facing dozens of felony charges that could land him in prison for decades. “I wanna buy one,” Trump said while taking a tour of Palmetto State Armory, a federally licensed gun dealer in South Carolina that’s widely revered by firearm enthusiasts. “Sir, if you want one, this one’s yours,” a person on the tour said, seeming to divert the president away from making an actual purchase. “No, I wanna buy one,” Trump insisted.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes driverless truck safety bill after autonomous vehicle interests spent big on lobbying and wined and dined his top aides.

Low polling Opposition leader the Dark Lord Peter Dutton was shocked to learn over the weekend that politics is in fact a popularity contest. ”Peter thought the object of the game was to appeal to Sky News after dark, he... Read More ›

Charlie Sykes on MSNBC has some suggestions for Joe Biden on how to counter the “he’s so old!!!” mantra: “Talk about what Donald Trump is up to, think about what’s going on in Capitol Hill. You are talking about a government shutdown, at the same time, they’re launching this impeachment inquiry. What could possibly go wrong? Kevin McCarthy has given away so much of his power. He has made himself so weak that he, in fact, has put the lunatics and the clowns in charge, yet this is the moment where we have to ask, are the American people going to think the Republican Party should be trusted with more power? Are they a serious governing party, or has it become all performative? They’re not waiting until after the election to let their freak flags fly. You’re seeing this at the presidential level, at the congressional level.” “Look, you know, we’ve been talking about, you know, what kind of messaging the Biden campaign should engage in. It’s not really that complicated. Joe Biden can say, ‘Yes, I’m old, but he is crazy, they are crazy, they are dangerous and are burning it down.

How scientists are engineering synthetic cells to be more life-like.

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“Nowhere in the world, I would venture, is the message more stark than it is in Australia. We simply cannot sweep injustice aside.  … the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians. It begins, I think, with that act of recognition. … Down the years, there has been Continue reading »

When Anthony Albanese addressed his federal electoral council on July 6 he rebutted criticism of AUKUS by saying Labor governments always have to prove themselves on national security. This was an explanation for Labor acquiescing in the Scott Morrison plan in 2021. It was the justification for not reopening the issue eight months later when Continue reading »

Seemingly out of nowhere, Canada and India are embroiled in an escalating diplomatic crisis after PM Justin Trudeau implicated India in the June 18 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent British Columbia (BC) Sikh leader. India has strongly rejected the ‘unsubstantiated’ charge as ‘absurd’. I fear Sam Varghese has allowed his anti-Modi animus to Continue reading »

During Australia’s Covid-19 pandemic response, some companies received billions in contracts made without tender, sometimes by ministerial intervention. It would be too much, of course, to hope that anything the inquiry into the pandemic response does to address this issue will be taken up with any enthusiasm by the Albanese government. It seems to have Continue reading »

The recently concluded Federal Court case brought against Brighton Secondary College in Victoria, resulting in a distressing confirmation of antisemitism during 2013-2020 is a case study in institutional bias against members of a minority group. The insights into institutional behaviour extend far beyond its effects on Jewish students, and remember that the evidence was tested Continue reading »

With the announcement that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down from the board of FoxNews and Newscorp, I thought was it an apt moment to reprint one of the most detailed portraits ever written of the press mogul: Alexander Cockburn’s 1976 profile and interview with Murdoch published in the Village Voice in 1976, shortly after Murdoch had acquired Continue reading »

Tuesday 26 September is the anniversary of the Biden administration’s destruction of three of the four pipelines of Nord Stream 1 and 2. There is more I have to say about it, but it will have to wait. Why? Because the war between Russia and Ukraine, with the White House continuing to reject any talk Continue reading »

The article about Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running in a crucial legislative district, bore the telltale signs of an opposition research dump.

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The man is very good at this: Pete Buttigieg was asked about Donald Trump’s latest comments disparaging service members and his answer is worth listening to: pic.twitter.com/6ErreQghdG — chyea ok (@chyeaok) September 24, 2023

Svenska hushåll är idag högt skuldsatta och på senare år har hushållens skulder ökat snabbare än både BNP och de disponibla inkomsterna. Orsakerna är främst en lång period med historiskt låga räntor och stigande bostadspriser. Hushållens skulder består till övervägande delen av bolån. Det genomsnittliga kvadratmeterpriset på bostadsrätter i Sverige har under de senaste 25 […]

“[Supreme Court Justice] Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.” — ProPublica, 9/22/23

The Supreme Court is a venerated institution that, since 1789, has been the highest court in the United States justice system. Like any large public institution, we have historically relied on federal funding for most, if not all, of our operating costs, which makes sense considering we are the preeminent body of one of the three branches of government.