In October 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard released a white paper titled Australia in the Asian Century.
The paper offered a lightweight commentary about a coming Asian Century and provided a few thought bubbles on how Australia might respond to such a development. What it failed to understand was that the Asian Century had been well and truly under way for at least 50 years prior to 2012.
Indian students and migration agents celebrated Labor’s federal election victory as a green light to immigration. The Indian community and migration agents know that the Albanese Labor government is a soft touch on immigration. Their view is well-founded, with record international student enrolments: Record graduate visas on issue: And record bridging visas on issue as
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A single, small, low-quality do-it-yourself poster recently displayed in the center of Germany’s capital Berlin has caused a minor scandal that has gone against the grain of the country’s usually unshakable support for Israel while the latter is committing genocide.
The latest ASIC data shows that the construction sector leads the nation’s insolvencies, with 2,795 firms going under so far this financial year, representing a 24% increase on 2024. The following chart from Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro illustrates the rising construction sector insolvencies, which are tracking at around double the pre-pandemic norm: Last week,
Chosen on Tuesday as the first woman to lead the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, Sussan Ley is assured of a place in history as breaker of the party's "glass ceiling".
But politics has its own traditions, so another phrase may fit better: the "glass casing".
The Élysée Palace has derided as “disinformation” claims being promoted by Kremlin figures that Emmanuel Macron took cocaine with Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, and Keir Starmer while on a train travelling to Kyiv.
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The algorithm knows me, which is why it served up this piece of sports writing about caffeine.
It was just past 11:20 a.m. on a Monday in New York City when the caffeine began to take hold. My head buzzed. My stomach sloshed. I had felt so confident just a couple of hours earlier. Now I felt defeated.
I was no Dan Campbell.
By Stephen Saunders Labor has the ideal ABC for 2025-31—a powerful and complacent woke-left propaganda-ministry. The broadcaster’s overdue shunt of overrated Laura Tingle is typical. For wicked immigration-influencers like “independent” Abul Rizvi, or Australian un-National University’s Liz Allen and Alan Gamlen, it’s second nature to play the Racist Card to shut down popular resistance to