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Campbelltown – 11:35 – The Liberal Party won four seats here last time, and their absence is keenly felt.

The Labor vote appears to have gone backwards by about 3%, and that may be enough for them to drop from seven to six seats, although it’s worth bearing in mind that the party has only held five seats for most of this term after the former mayor and an ally quit the party in early 2022.

Apart from Labor, you also have:

Environmental approval for wind and solar farms have to consider habitat loss for precious species, but do not yet consider the biggest threat, which is climate change, or the benefits of reduced coal emissions.

RT has played a major role in eroding support for Ukraine around the world, and the network has fundraised to buy weapons for the Russian military, the US State Department claimed on Friday. The US has sanctioned RT’s parent company in response.

The DXY bounce is far from convincing: AUD is slowly tredning higher: I wonder when JPY will realise Japanese inflation is temporary: Gold to the moon. An oil dead cat: Metals reflation is back: Miners popped: EM yawn: Junk is all soft landing all of the time: Yields readying for a dovish Fed: Another stocks

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” and special co-host Megyn Kelly talk about the fallout from ABC News’ disastrous handling of the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, where debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis displayed extreme bias...

The real problem with David Muir’s “fact-checks” that no one is talking about...

I wish Trump was a Russian asset.

I wish when he was president the first time, he would have called in Russian peacekeepers to dismantle the US democracy and establish a dictatorship that works with Russia to liberate the Vagina Occupation Government states of Europe.

Ultra-Cocksucker McCabe Brings Back “Trump is a Russian Asset” Narrative

BY Andrew Anglin

CoreLogic’s daily dwelling values index shows that Melbourne is the only major market where home prices are falling, down 0.1% over the past 28 days: So far in 2024, Melbourne dwelling values have fallen by 1.4% versus a 4.9% increase at the 5-city aggregate level: The slump in Melbourne’s housing market has prompted property developer

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By Jane Salmon Thank you to The Sydney Morning Herald for bridging the information gap when it comes to Council elections. The guide offered is comprehensive. With so many candidates, the choice can still seem overwhelming. Many candidates claim independence but then caucus within a Council as party members. How to pick REAL Independents: They…

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By Denis Bright   Cheered on by rhetoric from the various branches of the Murdoch Media, the LNP is poised for victory in Queensland on 26 October 2024. A close result to follow in the next national elections. A more balanced critical perspective on democratic processes has yet to be consolidated to replace the auctioneering style…

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Russia started the conflict in Ukraine and can end it "straight away”, Sir Keir Starmer has said after Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Moscow would regard Western missiles being fired into Russia as a serious escalation of the war.

This is what happens when a government is driven by symbolism over the policy process: A child protection organisation cited by the prime minister in an opinion piece arguing for his government’s policy to ban younger teens from social media says the ban is unlikely to make any difference, and could create more harm for

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