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Labor has struck a deal with the Liberals to pass savage new legislation allowing the takeover and gutting of the CFMEU, in one of the most appalling acts of union-busting in decades.

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“Did you know the Kamala price hikes have cost the average American family $28,000?” — Donald Trump, in a TikTok video, Aug. 15 Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get The Campaign Moment newsletter. “As a result of Kamala’s inflation price hikes, they’ve cost the typical household a total of $28,000. These are numbers coming from the government. They are not coming from me.” — Trump, media event in Bedminster, N.J., Aug. 15 Former president Donald Trump rarely updates his political rhetoric — he’s using many of the same lines against Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 that he used against Joe Biden in 2020 — so it’s always news when a fresh talking point emerges. In recent days, Trump has claimed that the “average American family” or the “typical household” has suffered a hike in spending of $28,000 under the Biden presidency. Nobody knows where he got that amount and the campaign isn’t saying.

Russell T. Davies confirmed today was the read-thru of all five episodes of the Doctor Who spinoff, The War Between the Land and the Sea.

What’s behind the curtain.

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Life is code, and code is life, in nature as it is in technology.

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My life among the elementary particles has made me question whether reality exists at all.

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In solitude, this modern priest is meditating on timeless questions.

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This November, the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday take off on two new Doctor Who audio adventures, narrated by Susan Twist & Genesis Lynea.

Henry James: girl, you are so cool and smart, and well-dressed, and beautiful. And I mean this in the least-sexual, but not sassy-gay-best-friend way, exactly, but more like just, your good friend who is also gay? And do you know, that guy is the worst. The worst. I feel like someone should leave you a […]

With the ceasefire talks faltering, Israeli citizens take to the streets, demanding a new approach. Could this growing movement inside Israel be the catalyst for ending the violence in Gaza?

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Australian opposition leader and aspiring Trump Cosplayer, Donald Dutton, has promised the country that he will do his best to make Australia white again.” ”Anthony Albanese has a lot of hide,” said the Opposition leader. ”I mean, how dare he... Read More ›

The value of individualism often comes up in attempts to make sense of the elusiveness of women’s empowerment. “Investing in women” has not uniformly yielded either the quick reduction in women’s poverty or the decrease in women’s adherence to sexist norms or deference to men policymakers had hoped it would. Of course, this is partly […]

Avocado consumption has been politicised not only as a threat to American national security, but also as a reason why young Australians find it difficult to afford housing. Meanwhile, the contested politics of avocado production can be understood in terms of different visions of sustainability.

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A Trump administration, and even a Harris one, will pose new challenges for Australia: sycophancy or independence? Non-alignment or more complicity in US wars? Continue reading »

Readers note that it is a month since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its advisory opinion on the Palestinian occupation (on 19 July). No doubt some are wondering what is happening. I am one of you. We are aware of course that the Australian Government has done next to nothing: refer The Continue reading »

History has too stately a progress to be the guide to tactics. But those who make history that does not fit logically into a pattern of principle, consistency and good judgment are doomed to stumble in the short term and earn the contempt of its core followers. The size of the gambling industry, and its Continue reading »

One of the first things Tony Abbott did soon after becoming Prime Minister of Australia in 2013 was to abandon the fibre-to-the-premises model that had been the hallmark of the previous Rudd Government’s National Broadband Network rollout. Shortage of labour and supplies had bedevilled the rollout under Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, but it promised a Continue reading »

A well-known Australian band, The Cat Empire, has decided not to perform three shows scheduled with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra over the treatment meted out to Australian-British classical pianist Jayson Gillham. In addition, MSO musicians passed a vote of no-confidence in senior management following which the board said it would carry out an independent review Continue reading »

One would’ve had to have been living in a cave not to have been aware of the recent street violence in the United Kingdom. For those of us who lived through the riots here in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020, there was an extreme feeling of déjà vu as we watched attacks on police, Continue reading »

Australia’s AUKUS submarines could be “wildly out of date” by the time they arrive, according to David Sanger, the White House and National Security Correspondent for The New York Times. He says the Pentagon is focused on transitioning the US to unmanned submarines “for either surveillance or for attack”, and that the subs Australia negotiated Continue reading »

A recent article by Michael MacKinley provides an accurate reflection on the (lack of) value placed on human life by those who propagate war. It brings to mind a statement of the past that, to paraphrase, states “a bayonette is a weapon with a working man on either end.” Michael points to two salutary lessons Continue reading »