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A judge has ruled in favour of a controversial water drilling project on the Gold Coast that will further impact the local environment. read now...

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Boris Epshteyn has risen to the role of top “legal” adviser “He’s a killer”. He also seems to be corrupt. Shocking, I know: Boris Epshteyn has had his phone seized by federal agents investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to remain in power after his election loss. Lacking any track record as a political strategist, he has made more than $1.1 million in the past two years for providing advice to the campaigns of Republican candidates, many of whom believed he could be a conduit to Mr. Trump. A cryptocurrency fund with which he is involved has drawn scrutiny from federal prosecutors. And he has twice been arrested over personal altercations, leading in one case to an agreement to attend anger management classes and in another to a guilty plea for disorderly conduct. As the former president faces escalating legal peril in the midst of another run for the White House, Mr. Epshteyn, people who deal with him say, mirrors in many ways Mr. Trump’s defining traits: combative, obsessed with loyalty, transactional, entangled in investigations and eager to make money from his position. Mr.

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Pathetic lack of vision exposes Labour’s lack of substance The absolute lack of vision, backbone and political imagination of Keir Starmer’s Labour has been exposed yet again, after some details of tomorrow’s budget were leaked to the media. Jeremy Hunt’s budget looks set to be the usual Tory vapour and spin – but still more […]

Following lobbying efforts, the Federal Reserve exempted Silicon Valley Bank’s venture capital investments from a key risk management rule.

They’ ve all be blathering “woke” every other work in the past week, but this takes the cake: These guys really love this word, don’t they? Do you think Larry Kudlow has any idea what “woke” is? Apparently, they all believe that this word is magic that explains everything. Just spit it out and everyone gets that whatever perceived problem we have in this world is caused by “wokesters” who aren’t going along with the white supremacy these people are pushing. That includes the military and bankers now. Who’s left?

Violence has always been at the center of White Christian nationalism: the vow to impose...

For every harbourside apartment a parent buys their children, the Perrottet Government will match it with another harbourside apartment, in a new policy designed to tackle poverty

For every harbourside apartment a parent buys their children, the Perrottet Government will match it with another harbourside apartment, in a new policy designed to tackle poverty.

The post Every NSW kid to be given harbourside apartment, in new Future Fund promise appeared first on The Shovel.

The Census never sleeps. While there is still some information yet to be released from the 2021 Census, the ABS is already well under way preparing for the next Census in 2026, including taking submissions...

I don’t pretend to understand all the nuances of this crisis and I’m withholding judgement until we see how it all shakes out. But this is someone who knows a lot and is always worth listening to: ​So the Feds stepped in to protect all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, even though the law says that deposits only up to $250,000 are insured and even though there was a pretty good case that allowing big depositors to take a haircut wouldn’t have created a systemic crisis. S.V.B. was pretty sui generis, far more exposed both to interest risk and to potential runs than any other significant bank, so even some losses for larger depositors may not have caused much contagion. Still, I understand the logic: If I were a policymaker, I’d be reluctant to let S.V.B. fail, merely because while it probably wouldn’t have caused a wider crisis, one can’t be completely certain and the risks of erring in doing too much were far smaller than the risks of doing too little. That said, there are good reasons to feel uncomfortable about this bailout. And yes, it was a bailout.

The latest ACCC report has revealed a flattening of the residential broadband market in the December 2022 quarter. read now...

With news yesterday of Australia’s submarine purchase speculation is now mounting on where they will be housed, with Alice Springs firming as a likely location despite currently being land locked. ”At this stage Alice Springs is indeed inaccessible by boat... Read More ›

The new theme park will attract “millions of Americans deprived of their favorite comic strip by the left-wing media Reich,” the Florida governor said.

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What Beijing just sponsored and got done, putting two millennia of diplomatic craft to work, is an exquisite example of what can be accomplished once this imperative is fully realized.

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