The US Supreme Court ruled on February 22, 2026, that Donald Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act’s tariffs were invalid. This includes the “reciprocal” tariffs and those imposed on Canada, China, Mexico, and other countries under different emergency declarations. Not long after the decision, President Trump announced a 10% “global tariff” under Section 122. But
Too often I dream
Our lousy world leaders
Spirited from the ice cream
But to the world’s horrors
Replacement would be
Stung evermore by the bee
Imagine Rubio Hegseth or Vance
Taking over the Donald’s trance
Spinning the macabre dance
Of a debauched Epstein stance
Should we take such a chance
Til one left is Chuck Schumer
Or a loser named Booker
With the resignation of former Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley from federal parliament, the newly minted leadership of Angus Taylor has been well and truly thrown in at the deep end. Following Ley’s resignation, there will be a byelection in her former seat of Farrer. Once, it was a blue ribbon safe seat for the
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Only Parliamentary nerds noticed. One such nerd Rex Patrick noticed and reports on a transparency dummy spit by Labor on the floor of the Senate.
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From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years....
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
BY Mary Beard
Thursday’s labour force data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has put the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) under more pressure to hike interest rates. Australia’s headline unemployment rate remained at 4.1% in January amid solid employment growth of 17,800. The number of hours worked also rose by a solid 0.6% in January. As
Last week, the UK committed up to £1 billion to community and local energy, with an ambition that by 2030, every community will have the opportunity to own an energy project. Australia should take notice.
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Perhaps the most important feature of the latest monthly electricity data from the IEA is not that renewables dominate growth in electricity consumption but that every country is doing the same thing.
Arab and Muslim-majority countries have condemned US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee for arguing that Israel has a biblical right to much of the Middle East.
Australia’s auction market has continued to fade following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) interest rate hike this month. According to Cotality, the national preliminary auction clearance rate declined to 68.0%, down from 70.7% last weekend (revised to 63.3% on final numbers) and 73.7% two weeks ago (revised to 66.1% on final numbers). This weekend’s
Former UK Trade envoy, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor You would think that there would be someone, anyone, who knew enough about the Royal Family, who knew Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor well enough who could have said to him quietly, ‘Molesting underage girls is not a good look for a Prince of the Realm, sire……’ But the bigger fallout
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the UK and its allies should deploy non-combat troops to Ukraine right now, to "flip a switch" in Russian President Vladimir Putin's head.