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NOMINATIONS are now open for the 2025 Yandaarra Aunty Grace Roberts Community Awards which will be presented during NAIDOC Week on 7 July. The awards have been running since 1998 and commemorate Aunty Grace, who worked tirelessly for her community and was feted for her leadership and guidance. Advertise with News of The Area today....

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You thought this morning was going well, didn’t you? You even got your kid to put on their shoes without a ten-minute existential crisis about sock seams. You were this close to making it out the door unscathed.

But you forgot one thing.

Me.

I am the zipper on this slightly-too-small, definitely-too-worn hand-me-down jacket, and I am your reckoning.

You try to pull me up—oh, silly, silly parents. I jam immediately. You yank harder—I resist. I am the fortress of defiance. You try to wiggle the teeth free. I laugh in your face.

And now? Now we play.

Your child is whining and squirming. Their patience? Nonexistent. And yet, I remain. Stuck. Permanent. A monument to your failure.

But wait, there is a new phase in this game.

They want to do it themselves. Their tiny hands grip me, their fingers fumbling and pulling in the least effective way possible. They are yanking side to side, tugging at an angle that defies both physics and reason. You gently try to guide them. They shriek in betrayal. This is your job, and you have gravely underestimated their zipping expertise.

In his final months in office, President Joe Biden quietly launched a bombing campaign on Yemen that pushed over 531,000 people from their homes. The media didn’t cover it. The public never consented. And now Trump is building on it.

The post Before Trump Bombed Yemen, Biden Displaced Over Half a Million People—And No One Said a Word appeared first on MintPress News.

The $73 million deal for assisting with deportations went to a company whose executives are accused of retaliating against a fellow ICE worker.

The post No-Bid ICE Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Being Sued for Fabricating Criminal Evidence on the Job appeared first on The Intercept.

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Meet Sammy Squitten, the baby squirrel suckled by a cat and raised by a human, in this story narrated by David Attenborough

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By shaking up our sense of how things are, substances like LSD or psilocybin have the potential to promote deep learning

- by David J Blacker

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The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities

- by Rupert Read

Read at Aeon

Mike Knight In this post, I argue that, to strengthen climate risk metrics, the pricing of carbon should be transparent and consistent. I suggest that lessons can be learned from existing commodities and interest rate markets in the role a benchmark price (for carbon) could play to provide that transparency and consistency. Further, I propose … Continue reading A benchmark global carbon price to support climate risk metrics →

Back in November, when I concluded that Trump’s dictatorship was a fait accompli lots of readers thought I was going over the top. In retrospect, and with one exception, I was hopelessly over-optimistic. I imagined a trajectory similar to Orban’s Hungary, with a gradual squeeze on political opposition and civil society, playing out over years […]

When John Lennon was murdered on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in December 1980, it was a tragedy that took place in that strange winter hinterland between the defeat of a Democratic presidential candidate and the inauguration of a Republican one. Ronald Reagan had just won a landslide victory over the beleaguered incumbent Jimmy Carter, whose […]

It will be a relief if Dutton is kept out of office. But the main reason for a Labor win will not be enthusiasm for Anthony Albanese.

The post Dutton’s support drops, but little on offer from Albanese first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Both Labor and Liberal have announced new policies designed to appeal to anger about the cost of housing. But neither will address the main cause of skyrocketing prices.

The post Delivering affordable housing requires ending investment handouts for the rich first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Global stockmarkets plunged in horror after Trump announced his so called “reciprocal tariffs” on virtually every country on Earth. Billionaire investment bankers in the US began screaming for a reprieve. In response Trump took a step back. He has put most of his tariffs on hold for 90 days, imposing a tariff of 10 per […]

The post What do Trump’s tariffs mean for Australia? first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Solidarity spoke to activists who have been organising around housing, Aboriginal rights, Palestine, and in defence of the CFMEU about the election campaign.

The post Voices on the election—Sending Labor a message, keeping Dutton out first appeared on Solidarity Online.

After months of inactivity, Mark Irving, the Labor-appointed administrator of the CFMEU has announced a plan to implement an undisclosed “Strategic Review” between now and 2028.

The post Administrator sets out plan to control CFMEU until 2028 first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Thousands of NSW doctors from over 30 hospitals in NSW have taken strike action for the first time since 1998.

The post Thousands of NSW doctors strike for conditions, pay and public health first appeared on Solidarity Online.

The collapse of two childcare centre operators last month has left hundreds of parents stranded.

The post Parents stranded as childcare chains collapse first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Peter Dutton is echoing Donald Trump’s climate denial. But Anthony Albanese is doing little to challenge him, desperate to hide his own climate inaction.

The post Climate emergency means we need to get off the gas first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Israel is ramping up its killing in Gaza, seizing more land to prepare for permanent military control and at times murdering more than 100 Palestinians a day.

The post Israel ramps up war crimes as it reoccupies Gaza first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promise to end the Ukraine War on “day one” of his presidency, his hopes of a peace deal have so far come to nothing.

The post Putin holds the cards over Ukraine as Trump pushes for a deal first appeared on Solidarity Online.

David Glanz explains why proposals for weapons to ‘defend Australia’—such as from The Greens—are no alternative to AUKUS and mean buying into warmongering against China

The post No need for alternative military spending plans first appeared on Solidarity Online.