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Your Democracy Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 11:39 Source

The surge in support for Pauline Hanson is built upon a huge increase in her likeability among the nation’s voters, with new polling revealing she will go into 2026 more liked than at almost any time in her political career.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 09:52 Source

Cotality’s daily dwelling values index, which tracks home values across Australia’s five major capital city markets, has ended 2025 with momentum stalling. At the aggregate 5-city level, Cotality’s daily dwelling values index rose 0.5%, down significantly from the 1.0% growth recorded in November. As illustrated above, there was wide divergence between the major capital city

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Your Democracy Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 08:34 Source

Another $10B in pokies losses for players and $10B in profits for clubs, pubs and government – another year rolls by. Michael West reports on NSW’s forgotten but epic gambling scourge.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 06:55 Source

For decades, people have debated the strange link between Leon Trotsky’s followers and the rise of Neoconservatism—but rarely has the full story been told. This book cuts through myths and half-truths, tracing how Trotsky’s disciples in the U.S. shifted from revolutionary socialism to shaping Republican foreign policy.

 

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Your Democracy Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 05:44 Source

 

The 91-drone attack on the presidential residence in Novgorod region was an extremely dangerous provocation. And one that “could not have been carried out without the participation of European hawks" because "Zelensky would not have dared to plan or carry out such an operation on his own,” military expert Alexey Leonkov told Sputnik.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 17:19 Source

President Donald Trump warned the US could carry out further military strikes against Iran if it attempts to rebuild its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. He made the remarks to journalists alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday.

 

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Core Econ Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 15:17 Source

In today’s competitive marketplace, tradies must go beyond word-of-mouth referrals and local networking to secure consistent work. With more customers searching online for electricians, plumbers, builders, and other trade services, having a strong digital presence is crucial. Palm Beach tradie marketing shows how effective lead generation strategies not only help attract new clients but also ensure sustainable business growth.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 09:46 Source

 

The niece of Bondi victim Boris Tetleroyd has labelled Anthony Albanese a “coward” after the prime minister again rejected calls for a federal royal commission into Australia’s worst domestic terror attack.

The prime minister has claimed such a public inquiry would needlessly promote hate speech.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 08:53 Source

London: When your next-door neighbour is the King, it’s a good idea to keep your head down, hints Roger Young, a Flitcham villager. Otherwise, it might just be a case of off with it.

“You can expect to see me hung,” the 87-year-old says after he agrees, following some hesitation, to stop and talk. “Hung, drawn and quartered,” adds his wife, Patsy, 86.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 06:55 Source

 

Venezuela has already survived years of economic warfare. Despite two decades of sweeping U.S. sanctions designed to strangle its economy, the country has found ways to adapt: oil has moved through alternative markets; communities have developed survival strategies; people have endured shortages and hardship with creativity and resilience. This endurance is precisely what the Trump administration is trying to break.

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Your Democracy Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 06:33 Source

 

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Your Democracy Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 05:44 Source

Russia will revise its “negotiating position” in the Ukraine talks in light of an attempted drone attack on President Vladimir Putin’s state residence, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated.

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - 00:05 Source

It is the time of year when pundits come out to wrap up the past year and lay the conceptual framework for how they want the world to see the year ahead. In Australia’s media, where desperation to curry favour from governments is a sine qua non for existence, it is wall-to-wall look away from

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Peter Martin Monday, December 29, 2025 - 17:04 Source

Much has been written about how, with the passing of the Queen, we have lost one of our last continuing links to the second world war.

We have, but we have also lost something even more profound – the link she gave us back to when the kind of world we know began.

On Tuesday last week Queen Elizabeth appointed a new prime minister of Britain, Liz Truss, who was born in 1975.

Seven decades earlier, Elizabeth II ascended to the role alongside Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was born in 1874.

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Peter Martin Monday, December 29, 2025 - 17:01 Source

Australians on our humiliatingly-low unemployment benefit are about to get their biggest payday ever.

On September 20, the single rate of JobSeeker will climb A$25.70 per fortnight from $642.70 to $668.40. That’s the biggest automatic increase since the payment began at the turn of the 1990s, and twice as big as the next-biggest.

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