The ABC’s Jacob Greber claims that the international education sector is an “export giant” that is being unfairly targeted by the federal government’s desire to lower net overseas migration. Greber argues that the government’s crackdown on the sector “undermine[s] Australian universities competing against attractive offerings in the UK, Canada and US”. “Limiting how many fee-paying
In ‘Powder keg in the Pacific’ Alfred McCoy is wrong from the very first sentence. He confounds cause and effect, revises history, reverses belligerent and defender, and hard-packs his article through and through with US state department mendacity.
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Elon Musk has denounced Joe Biden for saying the businessman had been an “illegal worker” before he became the wealthiest man in the world. The incumbent US president was accusing the billionaire of being hypocritical regarding immigration.
Germany should stop paying social benefits to Ukrainian refugees residing in the country and redirect the money to authorities in Kiev instead, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has argued. The diplomat claimed that generous handouts serve as a disincentive for Ukrainian men to return to their homeland and join the military.
Buying a new high-rise apartment in Australia is a game of financial Russian Roulette. The second half of last decade saw the greatest high-rise construction boom in Australia’s history. In recent years, hundreds of these buildings have been required to remove potentially combustible cladding, at a cost of millions of dollars. There have also been
Pro-Harris sticky notes pop up in women's restrooms and gyms and on tampon boxesWord about the grassroots campaign has spread on social media, primarily on Facebook, with women putting "Woman to woman" notes in places where other women will see them.
If bullshit was fungible, both Israel and Ukraine would be rolling in dough and not need another dime of foreign aid. The nonsense spilling out of Tel Aviv and Kiev is legendary and much of the Western public is slurping it up like a ravenous dog eating a bowl of rabbit stew.
BY LARRY JOHNSON
By Tim Dixon So Donald Trump and the GOP have told us – inadvertently – about what will happen during the 2024 election. You can tell by the troop buildup, ie, an increase in GOP (read MAGA) influence in local electoral councils. These are the groups that ratify electoral results in every county in the…
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President Joe Biden has formally apologised for the US's role in running abusive Native American boarding schools for more than 150 years and was heckled at the event by a Gaza war protester.
Ben is joined by Alexis Pink from ZZZ to discuss the LNP coming to power in Queensland. We discuss the divide between north and south, the performances of the minor parties and how this new LNP government might differ from the last LNP government.
Extremist US provocateur Candace Owens’ Australian visa has been cancelled, as the Labor government warns that her attacks on Jewish, Muslim and trans people have the capacity to incite discord.
DXY was back Friday night: AUD knows no bottom: North Asia is buggered as BOJ hikes pause and Chinese cuts intensify: Oil will be tested after Israel’s benign response to Iran. Gold is a bubble: Base metals can’t decide: Miners stopped the rot: EM meh: Junk saved itself: But yields still up: Stocks meh: Remarkably,
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