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Anthony Albanese’s photo opportunity with President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in San Diego ranks as one of the more grotesque and expensive the world has seen. read now...

MARRYING in their eighties on the bride’s birthday, 9 February, Coffs Probus members Patricia Falco and Richard Elver, were making happy headlines. Within days the couple were thrown into a dreadful waiting game after the disappearance of their beloved poodle, Monty, and the headlines on social media changed to desperate pleas for any news on...

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CHILL N Chat café is celebrating 20 years of giving back to the community with a morning tea on Monday 20 March from 9.30am until 11am. Past and present customers, volunteers, participants and employees who have contributed to the Chill N Chat café are all invited. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...

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AFTER becoming NSW’s first certified ECO Destination in 2021 through a commitment to balance sustainable tourism practices, along with authentic First Nations history, language, culture and world-class nature-based experiences, the Coffs Coast has again been recognised. Each year, international sustainable tourism organisation Green Destinations collects outstanding entries worldwide to inspire tomorrow’s travellers and today’s tourism...

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In a recent interview, Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies explained why "there is no plan at the moment" for a children's spinoff.

Nikki Haley whipping the woke: Don’t be surprised to see teachers threatened with violence. These candiates are whipping the MAGA freaks into a frenzy. And they are lying. Of course.

Today’s post is a joint effort, written with my friend and former teacher/colleague, Randy Wray. Randy was a student of Hyman Minsky (and author of many books, including Why Minsky Matters.) We were trading e-mails about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) over the weekend, and I suggested that we team up and write something for readers of The Lens. So here it is....

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Magical Monetary Thinking at the Fed Killed SVB
L. Randall Wray and Stephanie Kelton

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has gone against its own rules to green-light the billionaire Lowy family's $550,000 in secretive “donations” to the Liberal Party via an obscure subsidiary. read now...

The right just love bans They’re not waiting for that federal judge in Texas in Wyoming. Look for more of this: Wyoming on Friday became the first state to ban the use of pills for abortion, adding momentum to a growing push by conservative states and anti-abortion groups to target medication abortion, the method now used in a majority of pregnancy terminations in the United States. Wyoming’s new law comes as a preliminary ruling is expected soon by a Texas judge that could order the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its approval of mifepristone, the first pill in the two-drug medication abortion regimen. Such a ruling, if it stands, could upend how abortion is provided nationally, affecting states where abortion is legal as well as states with bans and restrictions. Legislation to ban or add restrictions on medication abortion has been introduced in several states this year, including a bill in Texas that would not only ban abortion pills but also require internet service providers to take steps to block medication abortion websites so people in Texas could not view them.

Say it ain’t so! It seems as though every few years some Republican decides to unburden himself about the dirty tricks and sabotage he engaged in on behalf of a GOP candidate. Here’s the latest: It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States. It was 1980 and Jimmy Carter was in the White House, bedeviled by a hostage crisis in Iran that had paralyzed his presidency and hampered his effort to win a second term. Mr. Carter’s best chance for victory was to free the 52 Americans held captive before Election Day. That was something that Mr. Barnes said his mentor was determined to prevent. His mentor was John B. Connally Jr., a titan of American politics and former Texas governor who had served three presidents and just lost his own bid for the White House. A former Democrat, Mr.

 My interview with Lewis Borsellino, greatest and most dynamic S&P futures trader I have ever known. He DOMINATED the S&P pit at the CME in Chicago during the wild times of "open outcry" trading. Incredible dude. Enjoy.

In Social Science and Medicine (December 2017), Angus Deaton & Nancy Cartwright argue that Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) do not have any warranted special status. They are, simply, far from being the ‘gold standard’ they are usually portrayed as: Contrary to frequent claims in the applied literature, randomization does not equalize everything other than the […]

Trees are good for the climate and human health. Plastics are bad for the environment and bird health. Where are the good governments when you need them? Forests reduce global warming … and not just by absorbing and storing carbon. Forests also have non-carbon processes that interact with the atmosphere to influence global and local Continue reading »

AUKUS has landed – well, sort of. At eye-watering cost over an extraordinary time frame, Australia is to host the rotation of US and UK submarines before it acquires three to five single-owner pre-loved Virginia class submarines as the pathway to participating in the British design and construction of an evolved Astute class submarines in Continue reading »

Anthony Albanese’s photo opportunity with president Biden and prime minister Sunak in San Diego must rank as one of the more grotesque and expensive the world has seen. The submarine deal, glowingly described as his ‘moon shot’ with its $368 billion price-tag is an act of pillage of public money. It might allow him to Continue reading »

Wellington 26 January 2035: Ten years ago this week the first nuclear-armed missile landed on Australian soil, remembered as Invasion Day. Duncan Graham recalls what happened. The surprise attack was the People’s Republic of China’s reaction to Australia’s involvement in opposing the ‘Ring of Steel’ blockade of Taiwan. Washington had earlier begun an airlift of Continue reading »

‘Avulsion’ refers to river science and how a number of little incidents can slow the river’s flow and, over time, cause the river to go in a different direction – a fallen tree, for example, that slows down the river’s flow, causing further deposits until the resistance to flow leads to change. If enough of Continue reading »

Speaking at a summit in San Diego on Monday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a decades-long strategy to deliver the most costly defence project in Australia’s history. New details of the AUKUS defence and security pact have revealed Australia will buy three second-hand US Virginia-class submarines early next decade (and potentially two more), subject to Continue reading »

Channel 5 News came to Leicester to film Unglamorous workshops and talk with members of the bands. Here's the report:

Channel 5 News came to Leicester to film Unglamorous workshops and talk with members of the bands. Here's the report:

Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields has published an article titled “We are not above criticism but these attacks go too far” tearfully rending his garments over criticisms his paper’s three-part war-with-China propaganda series “Red Alert” has received from former Prime Minister Paul Keating and from ABC’s Media Watch. The whole article is Shields moaning Continue reading »

The Federalist Society goes wobbly on democracy A report from a Federalist Society confab: To those who have followed the Federalist Society closely since its triumphs at the Supreme Court last year, the symposium’s focus on law and democracy may hardly seem incidental. Since its founding in 1982, the Federalist Society has championed “judicial restraint,” the notion that judges should limit their roles to interpreting the law as written, leaving the actual business of lawmaking to democratically elected legislatures.  That approach made sense for conservatives when they still saw the federal judiciary as a liberal force dragging the country to the left. But now that conservatives have secured a solid majority on the Supreme Court — and voters in several red states have soundly rejected hard-line positions on abortion — a spirited debate is underway within the Federalist Society about the wisdom of deferring to democratic majorities as a matter of principle.