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Full interview on The Project: youtu.be/tZLQJTvxHfk

Image source: https://x.com/McBrideCampaign/status/1903679064658862109

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60635674

Good on 'em all, especially the newspaper salesmen. I'd love to know what the old cunt said behind the beep.

The Coalition has also walked away from plans to sack 41,000 public service employees, raising questions about how it will pay for major election policies

Benchmark S&P/ASX 200 sank 6% within minutes of market opening – sending it back to levels not seen since late 2023

Imagine Canada, Australia and New Zealand join the EU and adapt the Euro and become the global money currency. This would destroy the US economy and probably end Trumps second term immediately.

(Do not take it seriously)

I find this remarkable (and wonderfully recreshing) , in Australia we seemingly want to buy expensive housing to get on the grift.

As John Howard said, he was never approached by anyone about making housing more affordable, as well as Plibersek as Housing Minister in the Rudd government,.wbere before that election saying first home owners gramts where a bad idea as all they did was raise house prices, gets elected to government and increases the first home owners grant as her first task.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has indicated he would look to buy back the Port of Darwin from Chinese company Landbridge under a re-elected Labor government, the most significant move yet to bring the strategic asset once more under Australian ownership.

Mr Albanese said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp radio on April 4 the port needs to be “in Australian hands”, including the possibility that a private buyer would be sought to take control.

“We will enter into negotiations to do that,” Mr Albanese said. “That is what we’ve been doing informally through potential buyers up to this point already, and if it reaches a point where the Commonwealth needs to directly intervene, then we’d be prepared to do that.”

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Local man Don has told shopping centre security that he did not attack Coles by stealing an entire shopping cart full of groceries, claiming that he was simply balancing a trade deficit.

The thief announced a sweeping plan to steal 10% of all items from every store, which he claimed will help bring down the heavily inflated prices of groceries.

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Hi Australia.

I'm planning on voting as is my duty and my privilege at the upcoming election.

I'm going to preface by saying that I don't want my votes to go to the Dark Lord or the Liberal Party or the liars in the Labour Party. They are both completely corrupt and I'm adamant that they need to feel some pain.

So then I want to look at the independents and consider what they do and what they don't do, and will they be truly representative, or are they just there scrambling for votes to get some money and power? Who can say?

So what I'd like to do to make sure the Liberals and Labour don't get my vote, is find some kind of flowchart, that shows if I vote for an independent or a smaller party, where does that preference go to, so that I don't feed the party that I don't want to get my vote in the end.

Is there any resource out there that can show me where the preferences get fed to, so I can make an informed choice.

I feel like this should be a legal obligation, that we are all given this kind of information in a flowchart. But I can't find it. Can anybody help?

Thank you so much.

The federal health department has accepted an expanded definition of infertility that would allow LGBTIQ+ couples and single people to be able to access Medicare rebates for assisted reproductive technology.

In short

The RSV Nuyina icebreaker is part-way though its first mission dedicated solely to marine science.

Along with understanding the impacts of warmer waters in the Antarctic region, scientists have been recording the rich and unique biodiversity — parts of which could be new to science.

What's next?

As the planet warms, scientists say Antarctica's Denman Glacier is a region of concern for sea-level rise, making the Nuyina's mission crucial to informing how humans adapt to climate change.

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The Australian government has ramped up scrutiny on the education centres in recent years over concerns that Beijing is using them to spread propaganda and spy on Chinese international students.

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There have been growing global concerns about the Chinese government's reach overseas through such education centres, with universities in America and Europe also choosing to close some of their branches.

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Confucius centres have now been removed from the campuses of the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland (UQ), the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

Several universities cited disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic as the reason for not renewing their CI contracts.

A spokesperson for UNSW said the university was developing its own programme in Chinese studies and is committed to "encouraging open dialogue in the China-Australia bilateral relationship".

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Full credit to the rouge republic of Western Australia on this one. What a friggin sick idea! Wish vicpol had the stones to do this.