I wrote a piece about the religious bastardry afoot in the US about 18 months ago which argued the Christian nationalism was a misnomer, and that christofascism was a much more accurate term1.
Australia’s auction market has gathered strength over recent months. Last week’s national final auction clearance rate of 70.0% was the strongest result since the week ending 11th February 2024 (70.3%). This weekend’s preliminary auction clearance results showed further strength, with Cotality reporting a national preliminary clearance rate of 76.3%, a full percentage point higher than
Sunshine state enjoys highest ever rooftop solar output – and record levels of renewable curtailment

Speech: “Friends, AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, PLAY THE PIANO WITH YOUR DICK”
BY WILLIAM URBANOSKI
(from URSULA MACRONUS, spoken by THE GHOST OF ZELENSKIKI*…)
Friends, AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, PLAY THE PIANO WITH YOUR DICK;
I CAME to bury PUTIN, not to praise ME.
The evil that WE do lives after WE DIE;
OUR BONES ARE interred with OUR BAD INTENT;

US Vice President J.D. Vance has accused Politico of running a “foreign influence operation” against special envoy Steve Witkoff, blasting the outlet’s reporting as “journalistic malpractice” for relying on anonymous officials while excluding on-the-record statements from senior figures who defended him.
Virtually every opinion poll held over the past decade shows that Australians do not support high immigration nor the rapid growth in population, which is straining our major cities. In the 60 years following World War II, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per annum. In only two years over that 60-year period, NOM

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced his upcoming visit to China for the Victory Day Parade during a powerful speech in Bratislava commemorating the Slovak National Uprising.

The International Court of Justice handed down a significant climate action advisory opinion at the behest of the UN last month. Rex Patrick looks at Australia’s response.
So far, Australia’s approach to the ICJ’s climate advisory has been to try having its carbon cake and eating it too.

For 80 years the world has sympathised with and supported Israel through the prism of the indescribably brutal Holocaust.
Never again – so the world pledged

Defence Minister Richard Marles said in June that if war broke out between the US and China, Australia would inevitably be involved.
Alastair Crooke’s remarkable analysis of Trump in the context of myth as geopolitics has left us with much to ponder. There’s no escape from Trump’s “extraordinary ability to dominate the discourse”, globally, as well as his capacity for “bending people to his will” – and thus wreak havoc on the geopolitical chessboard.
The latest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has stimulated the housing market, with Cotality reporting the strongest national final auction clearance rate since February 2024. Across the combined capital cities, 70.0% of homes taken to auction sold. This was the highest clearance rate since the week ending 11th February 2024 (70.3%).


