Britain’s defence secretary, John Healey, walked through oncoming traffic to escape questions about why the UK is still sharing military intelligence with Israel.
Healey told Declassified he had “nothing more to add” about the hundreds of Royal Air Force (RAF) surveillance flights over Gaza.
For a textbook example of how Australia’s housing affordability debate has been perverted, look no further than the latest Housing Affordability Report from the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre. Alan Duncan, Director of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, penned an opinion piece in WA Today blaming a lack of supply for Australia’s housing crisis: While interest
SQM Research released its rental vacancy rate for May, which fell 0.1% over the month to a historically low 1.2% nationally—the same level as last year. While all markets are tight, Sydney (1.5%) and Melbourne (1.5%) have significantly higher vacancy rates than the other capital cities, which are all tracking below 1.0%. Nationally, the rental
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A stronger than expected US initial jobless claims print – the third week in a row that was well above expectations – gave bond and currency markets a bit of a shakeup but was overshadowed by increased Iranian tensions with the US and the plainly not-a-deal US-China trade deal. Wall Street still managed to turn
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I reported on Thursday how an unexpected outage at Victoria’s second-largest coal-fired power station had heightened concerns that colder weather could strain the market and drive up wholesale electricity prices. I noted that the renewables would use the outage as an opportunity to label coal-fired generation “unreliable” and as justification for Labor’s renewables rollout to
The decision by the United States to initiate a review of the AUKUS agreement might very well be the moment Washington saves Australia from itself. Saving us from the most poorly conceived defence procurement program ever adopted by an Australian Government.
ABOUT 257 PEOPLE WILL SEE THIS CARTOON BY THE END OF THE DECADE... MORE THAN 2,417,871 WILL HAVE WATCHED DAVE RUBIN LAUD LOMBORG BY THE END OF THE DAY, BECAUSE DAVE HATES THE CONCEPT OF DANGEROUS GLOBAL WARMING... WE KNOW...
Policymakers are exerting significant pressure on Australians to live in shoebox apartments. Their directive runs counter to the wishes of Australians, who overwhelmingly prefer to live in detached houses. The average price premium of a detached house across Australia’s capital cities was 174% in May, according to PropTrack: Detached houses have also experienced far stronger
Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase that means “horrible year”. While it was initially used in the year 1891 in an Anglican publication to describe 1870, the year in which the dogma of papal infallibility was defined in the Catholic Church.
The expression was brought to prominence more recently by Queen Elizabeth II in a speech at Guildhall on 24 November 1992, in describing her year. She said: “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an annus horribilis.”1