Peter Dutton is showing that the Coalition also cannot be trusted on immigration. After promising heavy cuts to net overseas migration last year, the Coalition’s election statement on immigration has only promised to cut the permanent migrant intake by 25% for two years and offered no target for temporary or net overseas migration. The Coalition’s
Albo has been a catastrophe for Aussie living standards. His lies are outrageous. The prime minister acknowledged the tough financial circumstances of the past three years, underpinned by high inflation and interest rates, but he indicated that the worst was over, the nation was at “the beginning of where we want to be”, and more
You get a trade war – you get a trade war – we all get a trade war! Well, not Australia directly yet but as a satellite of Chyna, it matters not as the Trump wrecking ball through the international economic order yielded a serious blow over the weekend as both Canada and Mexico stepped
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As campaigning ramps up ahead of the date announcement for the 2025 federal election, shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton would take action in the same manner as US President Donald Trump.
In 2024, member states collectively spent an average of 1.9% of GDP on defence, while Russia was spending 9%, Kaja Kallas told the audience of the European Defence Agency annual conference on Monday.
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The following video, which is making the rounds on Twitter (X), features opposition leader Peter Dutton explaining how he “saved diligently” to buy his first house in Brisbane at the age of 19. “I have saved diligently over those years and it allowed me to put together a deposit for a house. And I bought
The Department of Home Affairs released temporary visa data for Q4 2024, revealing 2,250,000 temporary visa holders in Australia, excluding visitors, at the end of 2024. This was a record for the December quarter, representing a 116,000 increase over the same period in 2023. There were also roughly 470,000 more temporary visas in Australia than
The UK government’s pursuit of growth at all costs hands this country to predatory capital.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th January 2025
I can scarcely believe I’m writing this, but it’s hard to dodge the conclusion. After 14 years of environmental vandalism, it might have seemed impossible for Labour to offer anything but improvement. But on green issues, this government is worse than the Tories.
Jan 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday warned off BRICS member countries from replacing the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency by repeating a 100%-tariffs threat he had made weeks after winning the November presidential elections.
NPR Chief's DIABOLICAL Comments on ‘Truth’ Trigger FCC INVESTIGATION
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The Mango Mussolini has refused to rule out economic pressure or military action to take over Greenland. Greenland is currently one of the two autonomous territories of the Kingdom of Denmark; the other being the Faroe Islands1. Inhabitants of both of those territories are citizens of Denmark and as Denmark is part of the European Union, they are therefore European Union citizens2.
“The cemeteries are full of indispensable people.” In one form or another, this observation has been made many times over the last century or more.
DXY is back. AUD is tariffied. Auld lead boots is the big question as the tariffs land. Oil keeps bleeding. Gold to the moon. The Crap Complex—dirt, miners, junk, EM—pooed its pants. Curve flattened. Stocks eased. Trump applied his tariffs. “Today, I have implemented a 25% Tariff on Imports from Mexico and Canada (10% on
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