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Mon, 23/03/2026 - 21:50
And Now for the Weather Today is set to be agreeably alliterative  across an assortment of areas although the occasional metaphor  may cause some faces to cloud.  Idioms will be coming down like stair rods in northern regions, while the south  may experience the odd outbreak of similes, like an unexpected shower of arrows.  In coastal, littoral, and…
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Sat, 21/03/2026 - 03:31
This is a guest post from Prof. Marc Lavoie, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and winner of the 2025 Galbraith Prize from the Progressive Economics Forum for his lifetime contributions to heterodox theory and practice in Canada and around the world. Prof. Lavoie was recently invited by SSHRC to provide input to a restructuring of the [...]
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Fri, 20/03/2026 - 10:18

Two protesters in Queensland were arrested for using the slogan “From the River to the Sea” at a rally on 11 March—the day new laws that ban the phrase came into effect. One of them now faces charges which carry the threat of two years’ jail.

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Fri, 20/03/2026 - 09:56

The 21 March state election in South Australia sees a confident Labor government likely to increase its majority. It is also the first major test of whether Pauline Hanson’s racist One Nation can replace a weak Liberal Party as the dominant force on the right.

The post One Nation a threat as right-wing Labor dominates in SA election first appeared on Solidarity Online.