Interim NSW Premier Dominic Perrotet has centered his campaign launch around the promise to give every NSW Child $400 to be matched by their parents in vouchewrs to be used at a NSW Pokies venue when they turn 18. ”What... Read More ›
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Two senior aides to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were among the top lobbyists for the bank at the center of a new financial crisis.
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Ignorance and fear can be effective weapons in a manipulative politician’s arsenal. They’re guaranteed to pierce the armour of those least protected by doubt and most susceptible to flannel. ‘High tension’ and ‘social unrest’ are likely during the upcoming Indonesian presidential election campaign according to Moody’s investors’ service. That was the case in the 2019 Continue reading »
Nelson has been described as a bullshit artist, a narcissist, a charlatan, oleaginous, and having a glass jaw. Each descriptor is incomplete, some even unfair. Yet, throughout his career he has been popular across the political spectrum. Why? David Stephens reviews Of Life and Of Leadership, by Brendan Nelson Brendan Nelson has always been an Continue reading »
Just what’s needed to get me standing up straight, proud and strong! A session with a kindly chiropractor. Not much actual force is needed. He’ll just firmly manipulate my spine and make things right. Posture corrected. Out with that clumsy walking-stick! But what’s this? Is something wrong? Why is John Menadue urging our government to Continue reading »
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ales Bialiatski has been sentenced to 10 years in a Belarus prison for allegedly smuggling and financing actions which violated public order. At almost the same time Nicaraguan opposition leader Felix Maradiaga was released from prison, stripped of his citizenship and flown to the US. Government in Belarus and Nicaragua is Continue reading »
The different way in which the concept of ‘territorial integrity’ is applied by the West in Ukraine and Taiwan sheds light on the instrumentalist hypocrisy at the heart of American foreign policy, and the role of the media in obscuring that hypocrisy. ‘Territorial integrity’ is very much the mantra in much of the discussion about Continue reading »
As soon as within a month or two, Japan could begin dumping into the Pacific Ocean 1.3 million tons of treated but still radioactively contaminated wastewater from the stricken Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant. Construction of the kilometre long undersea discharge tunnel and a complex of pipes feeding it commenced last August. This cheap and dirty Continue reading »
Chris Miller, a combat veteran, is battling critics who say he failed to send troops when a mob stormed the Capitol.
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