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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 19:54 Source

By James Moore   “America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Very little in America is what it appears to be; especially in politics. The ether is filled with lies and misrepresentations and even those who make their living parsing…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 17:50 Source

By Denis Hay Description Explore how social justice in Australia can be achieve through monetary sovereignty and ethical policy reforms. Learn about wealth inequality, Indigenous rights. Introduction Social justice in Australia is not just an ideal – it is a necessity for creating a society where everyone has equal access to resources, opportunities, and rights.…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 17:49 Source

By Denis Bright   YouGov Polling released on 19 October shows some improvement in Labor’s run into the home straight in the last week of the Queensland election campaign. The polling was supported by a tolerant Courier Mail editorial containing some criticism of the communication skills of Opposition leader David Crisafulli. A key feature of the…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 15:11 Source

The ABC is meant to unbiased… Well, it’s meant to be even-handed and to present a diversity of views… on some things, anyway. I mean, if we have a news item about a house burning down, nobody expects the ABC to interview someone about what a great opportunity this is for Harvey Norman when the…

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John Quiggin Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 15:02 Source

We’re in another round of concern about the “death of the book”, and, in particular, the claimed inability or unwillingness of young people to read full-length books. I’m not going to push too far on the argument that this complaint is ancient, but I can’t resist mentioning the response of my younger brother, who, when asked if he wanted a book for Christmas, answered “thanks, but I already have one”). That was around 50 years ago, and he went on to a very successful legal career.

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 12:33 Source

France would work to rally Western countries behind Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s “victory plan,”French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said during his visit to Kiev on Saturday. 

“A Russian victory would be a consecration for the law of the strongest and would push the international order towards chaos,”Barrot told reporters during a press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrey Sibiga. 

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:59 Source

The dangers should be plastered on every wall in every office occupied by a military and political advisor. Israel’s attempt to reshape the Middle East, far from giving it enduring security, will merely serve to make it more vulnerable and unstable than ever. In that mix and mess will be its greatest sponsor and guardian,…

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 09:29 Source

CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAM NEW ZEALAND (EMIRATES)

As entertainment and distractions have become playgrounds for sponsors, WE THE PEOPLE ARE UNDER CONTINUOUS CONTROL…

IT’S NOT NEW….

SINCE THE DAWN OF CIVILISED TIMES, CIVILISATION HAS NEEDED TO CONTROL PEOPLE BY VARIOUS MEANS. 

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MacroBusiness Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 09:07 Source

Australia’s auction market has been stuck in a firm bear market, with the monthly average national final clearance rate falling to its lowest level of the year last week, dragging down price growth: The following chart shows how Sydney has driven the national auction clearance rate decline: The auction market rebounded this weekend, with CoreLogic’s

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 08:44 Source

Oxfam Australia Media Release Oxfam condemns in the strongest terms the killing of four water engineers and workers in Gaza today from the Khuzaa municipality who were working with our strategic partner the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU). The four men were killed on their way to conduct repairs to water infrastructure in Khuzaa, east…

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The Australian Independent Media Network Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 08:20 Source

By Tess Lawrence Our constitutional master, bonnie King Charles III, the Liar King of Australia is gracing us with his presence on this Great Southern Land deemed terra nullius by his antecedents and theirs for the taking; popped into the empirical dilly-bag of the dominion’s vast booty of pirated treasures. Always was since 1770, and…

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 07:30 Source

Every two years, a musical feat of world standard is achieved by a young Australian in an unlikely Victorian country town. Shepparton, home of irrigation and stone fruit, population almost 70,600, or an average AFL crowd, hosts it.

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 06:33 Source

Israel succeeded in what it is good at destroying, killing children and women and assassinating leaders, in killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. But the Israelis are only deceiving themselves if they think that through their crimes, they can accomplish success for their colonial project and force the Palestinian people to surrender.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 06:21 Source

 

Moscow is interested in a lasting peace with Kiev, but not a short-lived truce, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Russia’s goal is to ensure its long-term security interests, Putin stressed during a meeting on Friday with the heads of leading BRICS media agencies at the presidential residence in Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow.

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