Russia responds to Trump’s ‘paper tiger’ criticism
The country is usually described as a “bear” rather than other animals, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has joked
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has rejected US President Donald Trump’s description of Russia as “a paper tiger,”joking that the country is more commonly compared to a bear.
Dating apps post-date my dating life by many decades, so I’ve never paid them much attention. All I really know is that you swipe left or right, and this has become such a big deal it turned into a global meme. (I’m still not sure which is best, left or right.)
The other day, though, I read that one of the big apps—Bumble, which I assume is big because I recognize the name—is offering, or planning to offer, “friendship” matches.
Statistics New Zealand this week released migration data, which showed that only 13,066 net overseas migrants landed in New Zealand in the year to July. This was well below the decade average of 49,000 and more than 120,000 lower than the late 2023 peak. The decline in net overseas migration has been driven by the
Australia is beginning to resemble George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth from the novel 1984. First, the Albanese government performed a policy-180 and announced that Australians under the age of 16 would be banned from viewing YouTube. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is seeking to expand Australia’s draconian media restrictions globally at this month’s United Nations General
Recently on Twitter (also known as X), I came across a series of charts purporting to show the trend in certain search terms on Google indicative of financial stress. Fake charts are increasingly common, so I thought it would be best to do my own research on Google search trends to see if I could
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the monthly CPI indicator for August, which recorded a jump in headline inflation to 3.0%—the highest result since July 2024. In better news, the policy-relevant trimmed mean inflation moderated to 2.6% in August, down from 2.7% in July. The main driver of the rise in headline CPI
Because of my particular palaeontological expertise, in 1999, I was asked to be involved in a project with the Northern Territory Geological Survey (NTGS). They were about to begin remapping several 1:250,000 geological map sheets in the Northern Territory portion of the enormous Georgina Basin. My part of the project was mostly providing biostratigraphic expertise, which means providing a detailed assessment of the age range of the rock units the mappers were likely to encounter, by looking at the fossils in them.
Australia’s government and media want us to believe that climate change is the most serious environmental concern. They say that Australia must reach its net zero promises to avoid “dangerous climate change”, ignoring the reality that Australia is a tiny (1%) emitter on the global stage. Last week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled Labor’s long-awaited
The ferrous complex plods on. Caught between the approach of Simandou, Capanema, Gara Gjeblet on one hand and the shutdown of Chinese green steel on the other. The balance is unusually solid blast furnace output for the season. Honestly, if you had shown me that chart in 2019, I would have told you iron ore
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In the years since the pandemic arrived, Melbourne has gone from having one of the strongest economies in the nation and being a drawcard for internal migration to the butt of jokes and criticism. In some ways, this criticism is justified; the Victorian labour market and economy today are performing nowhere near as strongly in
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