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Ukraine’s conscription drive ‘increasingly deceitful, coercive and violent’ – The TimesKiev is resorting to dirty tactics in its efforts to bolster its troops, the British newspaper reports

Ukraine’s mobilization campaign is falling far short of targets, while the effort remains marred by violence, mistrust and rampant corruption, The Times reported on Thursday, citing local officials.

Local Reads: Australians delay dental care and remain on long public wait lists, leading to more in hospital – ABC Pro-Palestinian events in Sydney’s CBD to go ahead after police withdraw NSW Supreme Court application – ABC The sensitive data of Australia’s security personnel is at risk of being on-sold to foreign actors – ABC

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Richard C. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst who served with the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury and as an aide to U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).

Snowy Hydro seeks to play down use of diesel at its controversial Hunter Valley power project, which is still waiting for a connection to the gas network.

The largest operating wind farm in Australia has marked a significant milestone with the first export of renewable energy to the national electricity market.

Courtesy of Calculated Risk. On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for September. The consensus is for 145,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.2%. There were 142,000 jobs added in August, and the unemployment rate was at 4.2%. From BofA: Although the labor

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Independent economist Tarric Brooker posted the following chart on Twitter (X), showing net internal migration in the year to March 2024 across Australia’s state capital cities: As you can see, only Brisbane (13,200) and Perth (8,300) had positive net internal migration over the year, whereas every other capital city lost residents to other jurisdictions. Brisbane

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IEEFA's recent research on the cost of building nuclear is detailed and extensively referenced, with the methods laid out transparently. Dismissing it as "cherry-picked" and "nonsense" is not good enough.

According to the REINZ house price index, national home values in New Zealand have fallen 16.7% since the market peak in 2021. This decline has lowered real inflation-adjusted home values back to pre-pandemic levels at the start of 2020. The results of the 2023 Census were released on Thursday and revealed that New Zealand’s home

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Let’s take a walk down memory lane. It is June 2021, during the height of the pandemic. Australia’s borders are closed to immigration. And the NSW Intergenerational Report (IGR) has just been released, which explicitly warns that rebooting the Big Australia mass immigration program would create renewed ‘housing shortages’ across the state. “Net migration is

Preliminary data reported in The SMH shows that the number of offshore student visa applications fell to 18,697 in July, compared with 36,207 during the same period in 2023. The downturn continued in August, with applications falling from 30,703 a year earlier to just 15,270. The sharp fall coincided with the federal government’s push to

Victoria is an economic disaster zone. Data from the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) shows that the average number of new businesses registered per 1,000 existing firms in Victoria during the year to September was 80.5. This compares with an average of 99.8 in South Australia, 98.2 in Queensland, 95.3 in New South Wales,

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