When I was a small child in Tumut, I suffered badly from what was later diagnosed as asthma to the extent that my local doctor suggested I should go to what I remember was the Far West Children’s Home (now Royal Far West1) in the Sydney beachside suburb of Manly.
Major General Chris Smith DSC AM CSC teed off at the culture of managerialism affecting military decisions. His thoughts could be applied far more widely than just the military, and he should be applauded. “At the point of definition, those at the other end of your rifle are the enemy, and you are their enemy.
Sydney’s auction clearance rates have trended down over recent weeks, while auction volumes have materially increased. As a result, the growth in Sydney dwelling values have begun to fall. Sydney’s final auction clearance rate fell to 62.4% last weekend, based on 987 auctions. This result was down from 64.1% the prior weekend (from 772 auctions)
Our leaders are not wise or insightful. They’re not even particularly intelligent. Our society is led by plutocrats who only know how to make more money, by unelected empire managers who only know how to dominate and control, and by elected politicians who only know how to say the right words and make the right bargains in order to get themselves elected.…
The NSW government is creating a heavily resourced policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence. Andrew Brown asks why.
Every four minutes in New South Wales, police respond to a domestic violence incident, a relentless cycle of harm that rarely makes front-page news.
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.
"'As a result, a missile and drone attack against the State of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate timeframe," the Israeli authorities add.
There’s a pet peeve of mine that throws me into a rage whenever I hear it.
As the Donald Trump administration attempts to push through its ambitious plans for the “reconstruction” of Gaza, a tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East that is forever changing the face of the region. The numbers released by the enclave’s health authorities h
The Federal Reserve has appointed longtime Wall Street lawyer Randall Guynn as its new director of supervision and regulation – a move critics say risks entrenching industry influence at the heart of financial oversight, a move that one critic said was worse than “putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.”
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,
