falling asleep at the wheel of democracy.....

The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why.
As the Russia–Ukraine war enters its fifth year, hard questions are overdue. In Part 1 of a two-part series, Michael McKinley examines the strategic history behind the conflict and Australia’s uncritical alignment with a US-led approach that offered Ukraine little prospect of victory.

Former US President Bill Clinton has reportedly told congressional investigators that he did not have sex with a woman photographed with him in a jacuzzi, and does not even know her name, according to CNN and NBC sources familiar with the testimony about his links to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The US has suffered 200 casualties in Iranian retaliatory strikes on bases across the Middle East, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed.
Israeli army has initiated a strike against Iran "to remove threats against the State of Israel", the nation’s Defense Minister Israel Katz announced, adding a special and immediate state of emergency has been declared across the country.
There’s a pet peeve of mine that throws me into a rage whenever I hear it.

The housing finance commitments for the December quarter from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that the number of investor mortgages issued over the quarter hit a record after jumping by 5.5% over the quarter to 60,445: The value of investor lending also surged by 7.9% over the quarter and 31.8% over the year,