A “huge” new bureaucracy, numbering thousands of extra public servant positions, would need to be created by the Coalition to establish and support an Australian nuclear power industry, according to the minister for public service, Katy Gallagher.
Moscow has condemned remarks by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres which omitted mention of the Red Army’s role in freeing the inmates of Auschwitz, as well as the Soviet Union’s sacrifices in defeating Nazi Germany. Guterres spoke on Monday to mark the anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation.
When Donald J. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion days before the 2024 election, accusing the company of deceptively editing a “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, many legal experts dismissed the litigation as a far-fetched attempt to punish an out-of-favor news outlet.
Labour’s housing strategy makes a dysfunctional system bigger. We need systemic change.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 26th January 2025
Build baby, build. That’s about the intellectual limit of the government’s housing strategy. Millions are under-housed, so let’s “bulldoze” the planning system and build more homes. But it’s not nearly so simple.
MORE TO COME.
YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.
Gus Leonisky
POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.
HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE SINS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…
Ukrainian MP Aleksey Goncharenko has openly called on EU lawmakers to support the idea of assassinating Russian President Vladimir Putin and of promoting it among ordinary people. On Friday the legislator published a video on Telegram of himself making controversial statements at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
All he had to do was keep saying, ‘I’ll lower the cost of everything.’ Instead, he has hatched the most disastrously inflationary energy policy I have ever seen. Peter Dutton said gas “will be incredibly important” for the grid and insisted he is eager accelerate new projects such a Narrabri in NSW to ensure more
Washington seems to have developed a new habit — throwing tantrums whenever it falls behind. When did "American greatness" turn into nonstop whining?
‘Hostile’ BRICS dares to challenge ‘mighty US dollar’
In the last three years there has been a blizzard of new laws with respect to youth justice across Australia. While some laws have been welcome, a substantial number have been retrograde. In this category, laws with respect to young children have been the most controversial. This fact has attracted critical attention from a number of respected international and non-governmental human rights organisations.
A number of Democrats voted for a bill designed to crack down on undocumented immigrant criminals but so far only one Democratic lawmaker has said he'll attend a White House signing ceremony for it.
US President Donald Trump’s purge of the FBI’s leadership comes as no surprise - the agency has been acting more like a political enforcer than a law enforcement body.
Here are just a few examples of its (mis)conduct:
August 2022 – The FBI stormed Trump’s Mar-a-Lago to seize classified documents while Biden faced zero consequences for doing the same.
Over the past decade, the number of cafes nationwide has reached an unsustainable level, and many are struggling to survive. I moved to my home suburb of Ashburton, Melbourne, in 2006. At the time, the local High Street shopping strip had only a few cafes. The number of cafes peaked at around a dozen in
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CoreLogic released its first auction results for 2025, with final clearance rates crashing to new lows in the week ending 26 January. The national final auction clearance rate fell to 55.6%. This was the lowest result since the final week of 2022 when housing market conditions were adjusting to successive cash rate increases. The decline
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