WOOLGOOLGA Red Cross Branch members and volunteers rallied throughout March to fundraise and celebrate the humanitarian work of the organisation. The extreme weather event during March also saw volunteers of the Emergency Service, under Team Leader Judy Jackson, involved in supporting those affected in the recent floods by working in evacuation and recovery roles. Advertise...
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TOASTMASTERS club members in Coffs Harbour have won the top places in the speech contest recently hosted by the Oxley Division in Taree. Competing in the Humorous Speech category, Jetty Speakers Toastmaster Club President Susan Hereford-Ashley, won first place, with Coffs Harbour Toastmasters Club member Fran Kerkhoff placing second. Advertise with News of The Area...
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THE Rotary Club of Sawtell saluted five decades of service with a celebratory dinner, where members past and present were joined by friends and the wider community. The milestone event went ahead despite the inclement weather. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02)...
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Hundreds of students and staff rallied at universities nationwide to defy the crackdown on protests, joining a National Day of Action for Palestine.
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Millions of workers in the UK are trapped in jobs that simply don’t pay enough to live on. In February, the Living Wage Foundation revealed that one in six UK jobs, or 4.5 million, were paid below the real Living Wage in 2024. The figures mark the largest increase in the number and proportion of […]
“Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into trade wars abroad, all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.” — PBS, 4/10/25
We’ve all been there: You send a gang of plainclothes agents to abduct a woman from a city street in broad daylight for cowriting a relatively innocuous op-ed in a student newspaper, and everyone jumps down your throat.
Questions about who profited from Trump’s tariff flip-flop revived the push to ban members of Congress themselves from trading stocks.
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A species of sea hare has an impressive tolerance for heat and a penchant for gene mixing
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Don’t be embarrassed, it’s a common mistake. You look around and think, Yep, this is it. Paramilitary deportations, apocalyptic foreign policy, and private corporations looting the federal government. This has to be the Fourth Reich.
Not so fast, my friend. That’s a protected term. Technically speaking, it’s only the Fourth Reich if it comes from the Reich region of Germany. Everything else is just sparkling fascism.
Fascism can come from anywhere, of course. Spain and Italy have produced their own versions over the years. Some of the stuff coming out of California rivals the classic vintages. However, only one region holds this unique appellation.
This is fascism, obviously. No one is arguing that. It’s simply a matter of designation. You see, every region has what they call terroir, something in the land that imparts a certain je ne sais quoi on a given far-right government. You might not be able to describe it, but you know it when you see it.
The Trump administration filed no new evidence in its case against Khalil, according to a new filing ahead of Friday's hearing.
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Dear Readers,
A few years ago, when my godson was graduating from high school, I went looking for a suitably impressive of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. I thought a well-made hardcover edition would make a great gift, given that Leaves of Grass is the closest thing we have to American scripture. But when I looked around, I found nothing like what I wanted. There were paperbacks, there were older hardcovers, but there were no handsome new editions featuring the whole poem, well-presented and made to last.
Trump backed off on most of his tariffs after Japan sold a ton of bonds and he panicked. He replaced most of the tariffs with a blanket 10%, and kept tariffs on China and Canada (because those countries had counter-tariffed the US, supposedly.) Now the report is that what US negotiators are demanding is that in exchange for avoiding US tariffs, other countries tariff China.
It should be noted, first, that China will not back down. The way Trump is framing this is “China will come to us” and sub-voce “beg” and that’s not happening, it would be a massive loss of face for Xi and for China and China is a “face” society. So massive tariffs on both sides will continue unless the US makes the first overtures and in a face saving way. The US rates on China are 125% and the Chinese rates on America are 85%.
