Blogotariat

Prominent Australian business leaders and public figures have joined calls for a federal royal commission into antisemitism following the Bondi terror attack, adding pressure on the Albanese government as it resists a national inquiry.

Among the more than 100 signatories to an open letter, published on Friday, are former Reserve Bank governors Philip Lowe and Glenn Stevens, alongside a broad cross-section of business figures and university chancellors.

At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a café and a hotel during New Year’s Eve celebrations in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly, the governor of Russia’s Kherson Region has said.

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The world-famous New Year's Eve celebrations at Sydney Harbour struck a sombre tone this year, as fear and grief lingered following the Bondi terror attack in mid-December. 

An hour before the clock struck 12, the harbour bridge glowed white with its pylons bearing a menorah to commemorate the 15 people killed at a celebration to mark the beginning of Hanukkah. 

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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.

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

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.

Trotsky and the Neoconservatives: The Whole Story

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.