Anyone with half a brain knows that reducing the number of international students (and migration in general) will help to ease the rental crisis. The association between the increase of international students and temporary migration is clear. Temporary visa numbers in Australia have increased by around 500,000 over the pre-pandemic peak, as shown in the
Forty (40) years ago, the ALP ran its national conference at what was then called Noah’s Lakeside Hotel, with uranium, Timor, taxation, David Combe and south-west Tasmania prominent in discussions. But, who is this meeting up on the dancefloor after the day’s debates and double-crossings?
Political void: The end of the Wharf
DXY is a runaway freight train as EUR succumbs. AUD is huddled in a corner hoping nobody will notice. But they will as the Crap Complex is mown down. North Asia is already responding to looming tariffs. Commods are being crucified as gold and oil do the limbo. Dirt is breaking down. Miners abandon hope.
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I finally wrapped up my three-month-long watch of Continuum on Amazon over the weekend. (And immediately plated up the BBC’s last Day of the Triffids adaptation for fun).
It’s been a while since I’ve enjoyed a series as much as I did Continuum. Made me think I should go back and finish watching that other Canadian time travel romp, Travellers. Not sure why I dropped out of that one. I think it might have been because it got cancelled and I’m not sure they wrapped up the story.
Australian territory has been used in supporting US B-2 bombers en route and in return from strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on October 17, and highlights the profound strategic significance of this event for the future role Australia may play in US strategic bomber operations against China, in the Asia Pacific and beyond.
Germany's top election officials at both federal and state levels were due to meet on Monday to discuss how to prepare for snap elections, which will be the likely outcome of an upcoming parliamentary vote of confidence on Chancellor Olaf Scholz's minority coalition.
The similarities between the Canadian and Australian governments concerning immigration and housing are astounding. In 2022, Canada’s then-immigration minister, Sean Fraser, saw immigration as a race for global talent, which he always intended to win. In 2022, Canada experienced record population growth of around 800,000. Still, Fraser announced that Canada would welcome 465,000 permanent residents
By Denis Bright In these times of unexpected election swings at home and abroad, the campaign strategies of the LNP in Queensland are worthy of careful consideration. Until Lia Finocchiaro’s landslide victory in the NT elections on 24 August 2024, Labor controlled every mainland state and territory administration. Times have changed in a few weeks…
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UNSW Sydney Media Release With the newly elected Trump administration threatening to introduce higher tariffs on imports, the Australian government should act quickly to seek tariff exemptions, and businesses should prepare to adapt to a more challenging trade position, said Richard Holden, Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School. “It Trump goes ahead with across-the-board…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvYlk8XhF1Q
It was the working class of America wat dun it!
If Trump puts American interests first he'll make America great again, if it ever was!. The Battle of Donald's Ear. Up the Rhine without a paddle. And lies about the Amsterdam 'pogrom'........
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will again ask US President Joe Biden to allow Kiev strike targets deep inside Russia with Western weapons, The Telegraph reported on Sunday.