Japan’s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, is stirring the pot – notably on regional security matters. He has proposed something that has done more than raise a few eyebrows in the foreign and defence ministries of several countries. An Asian version of NATO, he has suggested, was an idea worth considering, notably given China’s ambitions…
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Every four years, politicians and lobbyists urge citizens of the United States to participate in the “most important elections” in the history of the country. Whereas 2024 is no different in that regard, there is in fact a now-or-never sense of urgency looming over the current race to the White House.
Monash University Media Alert In the latest Newspoll released today, primary support for the Coalition has lifted to 40 per cent for the first time since the 2022 election, and Peter Dutton’s net approval now surpasses Anthony Albanese’s. Dr Zareh Ghazarian, Politics Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences said that: “These results demonstrate that…
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly spoken to Vladimir Putin about Russia's war in Ukraine, urging the Kremlin not to escalate the conflict.
Huge solar farm and big battery project targeted by Barnaby Joyce gets independent planning approval
Huge solar farm farm and big battery project gets IPC approval in New England, despite food concerns
The Albanese government has badly overreached on two vital areas of regulation. First and foremost, Labor’s disinformation bill threatens to ban commentary that the government (via a faceless bureaucrat) doesn’t agree with, threatening a key pillar of democracy: free speech. Recall that the Albanese government sought to combat disinformation via a new reporting register. A page
Hollywood and its waning political influence are both following the same trajectory.
Goldman with the note. USD: Elections have consequences. Our US economists expect tariffs to feature prominently in the new Trump Administration, coupled with modest additional tax cuts, more federal spending, and a light touch on regulation. Our European economists downgraded their GDP forecasts across the region in anticipation of higher uncertainty and other spillovers. The
Australia’s troubled Ambassador to Washington, Kevin Rudd, has made an inauspicious start to his “charm offensive”: Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles have met Donald Trump’s former top diplomat to shore up ties with the former president ahead of a close and bitterly contested US election. The previously undisclosed meeting with Mike
I have always said that water is the ‘elephant in the room’ of the immigration debate that policymakers and pro-Big Australia boosters never address. A procession of reports over recent years has warned that Australia faces chronic water shortages and rising costs as its population swells by millions on the back of permanently high levels
