Foreign secretary David Lammy has dismissed comments he made about Donald Trump previously as "old news".
While official speeches commonly cite ‘democracy’ among the causes for which Australians and our allies have always fought, we are free to wonder if that is not ‘the lie in the soul’ this Remembrance day.
Back in 1947, the standard Australian working week was reduced from 44 hours to 40. In 1983, 36 years later, the working week was reduced to 38 hours. That was more than 40 years ago, and there has been a lot of technological progress since then. It makes sense to take some of the benefits of that progress in the form of shorter working hours.
Yesterday, I fired up the Big Green Egg and decided to tackle cooking a whole duck. Until now, I’d never cooked one myself. Usually, we grab a roasted duck from Chinatown and have them carve it for us to make this duck salad everyone loves. But for some reason, ducks were on special this week, so Jane picked one up instead of a chicken. I had my doubts, but I figured, why not?
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Oxfam Australia Media Release Climate disasters are costing the Pacific eight times more than they did a decade ago. The number of people impacted by climate disasters in the Pacific increased 700% on average in the last decade, compared to the previous decade, according to new analysis by Oxfam Australia released as COP29 climate negotiations…
A young woman was killed at the music festival which was attacked by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and a friend of hers who was kidnapped and later released, gave a speech explaining how they were let down by the United Nations because the UN did not save her or the other hostages. It seems…
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The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) latest Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) noted that the increase in Australian housing credit and prices to record highs is “unusual” given the tightest monetary conditions since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. “Unusually for a rate tightening period, housing credit growth has picked up over the past year”,
This is wrong. Apostle Funds Management portfolio manager John Barrasso says having Trump in the White House will keep mortgage rates higher for longer, with no immediate relief from inflation. “A strong American economy and a stable or improving Australian one is likely to result in a higher level of inflation than the RBA expected,”
By Denis Hay Description Australia US alliance has costs. Learn how this impacts Australians and how reallocated funds could benefit citizens. Introduction Australia and the United States have been strategic allies for over seventy years. This Australia US alliance, often celebrated with the phrase “old allies and true friends,” is rooted in shared history and…
The recrudescence of the orange putresence They enthusiastically embraced a convicted felon and known rapist to be their country’s exemplar. Not hesitatingly, not with caveats, not in ignorance of his crimes but knowingly and cheerfully. A tainted vulgarian represents their nation, its ethos, its character. He’s their role model – a man who ran for…
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The second administration of US President-elect Donald Trump will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling it to take back all the territory it has lost to Russia, Bryan Lanza, a senior campaign advisor to the US president-elect, has said.
