SIR KEIR Starmer has urged striking bin workers to start negotiating as tons of rat-ridden rubbish pile up.
His challenge came as photos showed a major clean-up was needed to clear a car park in 24 hours in Birmingham.
Emmanuel Macron has been spraying himself with copious amounts of luxury cologne, according to excerpts from a new book about the French president cited in the media.
In his book titled ‘The Tragedy of the Elysee: Inside the Hell of Macron’s Five-Year Terms’, Le Parisien journalist Olivier Beaumont claims that the president uses “industrial amounts”amounts of perfume on a daily basis.
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has said that the claims that Russia had meddled in the 2016 US presidential election were nothing but lies.
Well hasn’t this been a fun start to the trading week! A proper bath of blood here on Asian markets after the epic volatility from Friday on Wall Street as it looks like all the 2024 gains will be wiped out as the US at least will enter a bear market. All risk markets are
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Peter Dutton has ditched his plan to force Canberra's public servants to work from the office five days a week after the policy proved unpopular with voters — particularly women — telling Australians "we have listened”...
I find myself temporarily lonesome in the house for the next two weeks. Jane's down in Sydney for work, and both kids are travelling overseas together. So it’s just me, the dogs, the cats, and all the manfood I can eat.
Sydney is the ultimate city of housing “haves” and “have-nots,” of housing millionaires and paupers. Examine the following chart of median dwelling values across Australian capital cities, states, and territories. As of March 31, Sydney’s median dwelling price was an astonishing $1,437,000, driven by detached houses worth a stunning $1,437,000. Sydney’s home prices are significantly
Talk about claptrap. ABC. Peter Dutton has defended waiting till now to promise to bring Darwin Port back under Australian control, rather than acting when the Coalition was in government, because the national security advice has changed since he was defence minister. Both major parties have vowed to end Landbridge’s 99-year lease on the port,
The Fed was nasty on Friday. Jerome Powell. While uncertainty remains elevated, it is now becoming clear that the tariff increases will be significantly larger than expected. The same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth. The size and duration of these effects remain uncertain.
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Australian politics today is very different to what it was even ten years ago, but the shift in the partisan make-up of the country has been a story decades in the making. For today’s post I’m going to recount and update statistics about how Australia has shifted from a strong two-party system into the fragmented multi-party system we have today.
God save me from the ABC + Grattan Institute corruption nexus. I have written extensively about how the ABC quotes former gas executive Tony Wood without ever mentioning the Grattan Institute’s huge conflict of interest in its sponsorship from Origin Energy. This has turned the ABC into a near cypher of gas cartel propaganda. But
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