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Earlier this month, The ABC’s Keane Bourke acknowledged that “Australia doesn’t have enough houses” and suggested that Australians let out their spare bedrooms to ease the rental crisis. Bourke claimed that Australia would have the capacity “for about five million extra people” if these spare bedrooms were rented out. Over the weekend, The ABC suggested that

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The Victorian government is drowning in debt, with the nation’s largest debt load and the worst credit rating. The world’s two largest credit rating agencies—S&P and Moody’s—warned that Victoria faces further credit rating downgrades if it does not bring its debt under control. The task has been made much more complicated with Victorian Premier Jacinta

Any objective analysis of Australia’s international education sector would conclude that enrolment numbers are too high. Before the pandemic, Australia had easily the highest concentration of international students globally, as illustrated below. As of August 2024, Australia had just under 970,000 international students enrolled, up nearly 130,000 on 2019 enrolment levels. Graduate visa numbers have

SHFE continues to fade while SGX futures hang on. Goldman is bearish iron ore, bullish copper. Our structural preference for base over ferrous is our 3S view that China is no longer the tide lifting all boats. Specifically, the demand effects from China’s 1) structural GDP slowdown on demographic and property weakness (property developers’ starts

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Increasingly, however, the tenor of News Corp attacks has shifted from challenging not merely the existence of a publicly funded news source, but attacking its perceived ideology. While the trope of a left-wing ABC has been standard for decades among conservatives, increasingly the ABC has been targeted by the Murdochs as part of the culture wars that the company has found so rewarding in propagating.

By Jane Salmon Refugee Events In Canberra 19-20 November 2024 Tuesday, 19/11/24, 7.30am Signs held in silence Melbourne Avenue – State Circle intersection Tuesday, 19/11/24, 9.30am Soph Singh Zoe Daniel MP Senator David Shoebridge Neil Para Tuesday, 19/11/24, 10.45am Children Meeting Mehreen Faruqi inside APH Additional meetings at times to be advised Tuesday, 19/11/24, 11am…

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Dear President Trump, On behalf of the Australian people, I would like to apologise for the presence of Kevin Rudd in Washington. In recent polling, the Australian people recognise that Dr Rudd’s political party is unlikely to engage you well. Moreover, there is very strong support for the US alliance among Australians, especially versus alternative

Neoen sends 200 MW Narrogin wind farm into WA EPA process.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., lashed out at the Democrats following reports that ongoing President Joe Biden had allowed Ukraine to use American-made long-range missiles to strike internationally recognized Russian territory.

Trump Jr., who campaigned alongside his father during the 2024 presidential election and has been helping him pick members of his future cabinet, did not mince words on social media.

The appointment of RFK jnr to the health portfolio in the Trump administration is sending ripples of joy through the conspiracy theory driven anti-vax crowd. The joy that autism will finally be eliminated because, as every one knows, vaccinations have led to the explosive rise of autism among children. There is nothing quite as powerful…

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The origins of the Great Jacquerie are not well known. It seems to have occurred following clashes between armed groups and peasants, in the gloomy context following the Great Plague of 1348. The Hundred Years' War resumed in earnest in 1358. King John was a prisoner of the English, and troops were pillaging villages.

The East Coast gas cartel is busy unleashing a new price shock as nobody watches. We are in off-peak season and these prices are far above where they should be, let alone rising instead of falling. As a result, NEM prices are 10% above last year and the price falls have called out on spot

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