UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has insisted he runs a "united team" after a senior minister was forced to repeatedly deny that he planned to oust the embattled premier.
At the end of World War II in 1945, international relations quickly coalesced around two superpowers (the USA and the USSR), giving rise to a bipolar world. Since then, the quest for a balance of power, fueled by the space race and the expansion of spheres of influence, has fostered a logic of escalation and a mutual perception of threat that continues to divide relations between Washington and Moscow today.
It beggars belief that the outgoing head of the RSL, Greg Melick, has abused the quiet solemnity of Remembrance Day to lecture and berate the Albanese government on its defence policy.
Worse, he carelessly flung around the tired epithet of ‘appeasement’ at the Prime Minister and his Ministers.
In succumbing to a lust for the limelight, the ASIO director, Mike Burgess, is not making it easier for the government and citizens to retain confidence in him and the organisation he’s trying to run.
The latest rental data from Cotality suggests that Australia’s rental market has tightened. Rental vacancy rates nationally fell to a new record low of 1.5% in October, down from 2.0% 12 months prior. The number of homes listed for rent across the combined capital cities has fallen to its lowest level on record for an
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Another mixed day for Asian stock markets without a clear lead from Wall Street overnight as political machinations and a few central bank speeches within the region. The USD was largely unchanged although some commodity currencies moved higher while gold and the Australian dollar remained steady after holding on to their post weekend gap gains.
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Although I’m not quite sure how much I can offer Mr Zhang’s steel and ironmongery…
When one mentions Zbigniew Brzezinski, it is like advancing the concept that the devil is a great proponent of Christianity because it gives him (the devil is male, transgender or female — depending on your bent) more material to work with.