It is the time of year when pundits come out to wrap up the past year and lay the conceptual framework for how they want the world to see the year ahead. In Australia’s media, where desperation to curry favour from governments is a sine qua non for existence, it is wall-to-wall look away from
Much has been written about how, with the passing of the Queen, we have lost one of our last continuing links to the second world war.
We have, but we have also lost something even more profound – the link she gave us back to when the kind of world we know began.
On Tuesday last week Queen Elizabeth appointed a new prime minister of Britain, Liz Truss, who was born in 1975.
Seven decades earlier, Elizabeth II ascended to the role alongside Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was born in 1874.
Australians on our humiliatingly-low unemployment benefit are about to get their biggest payday ever.
On September 20, the single rate of JobSeeker will climb A$25.70 per fortnight from $642.70 to $668.40. That’s the biggest automatic increase since the payment began at the turn of the 1990s, and twice as big as the next-biggest.
The telephone conversation between the Russian and US presidents was held at the initiative of the US side, and lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.
Key takeaways:
— Trump wanted to discuss a number of issues ahead of his meeting with Zelensky
— The tone of the Putin-Trump call was friendly, constructive, and business-like
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BREATHING THE AIR INSIDE A MICROWAVE OVEN ISN'T GOING TO KILL YOU... BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CLOSE THE DOOR... SHOULD YOU BE ABLE TO CLOSE THE DOOR AND TURN THE MACHINE ON, YOU WILL BOIL TO DEATH... THIS IS WHAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND. DENIALISTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ARE THUS DANGEROUS...
There is a moment in every civilization’s collapse when the instruments of its destruction become visible to those paying attention. We are living in that moment now. But the warning signs are not carved in stone or written in prophecy—they are embedded in source code, amplified by algorithms, and funded by men who speak openly of human extinction while racing to cause it.
My latest podcast with Martin North at Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) explained why Australia is experiencing its worst rental crisis in living memory. To summarise, Australian rents have soared by 44% over the past five years, according to Cotality, adding around $10,600 to the annual cost of renting the median home. As a result, rental
On its final day, St. Anna's is almost full again. A choir is singing and the small organ is supporting them. But this is the last mass in the small Catholic church in Gildehaus, a district of Bad Bentheim near the German-Dutch border. In future, the building will no longer be a place of worship.
Germany's empty churches repurposed as congregations shrink
In 2020, Dutch lawyer Arno Van Kessel realized that Covid-19 was being used by governments to exercise malign influence on populations and began vocally opposing both the Dutch government's pandemic response measures and the subsequent Covid-19 'vaccines'.
The Israel President cannot be welcomed in Australia. The government he represents has been found by the International Court of Justice to have breached international law: the Netanyahu regime has committed a range of international crimes against humanity including war crimes, apartheid, illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing.
A key reason why China has, for decades, had the highest annual increases in per-capita GDP PPP (standard of living as experienced by the country’s population — as opposed to pure per-capita GDP, which reflects ONLY the investors) is the Chinese Communist Party’s relentless war against corruption.
