Albanese and Dutton could cooperate to remove King Charles as our head of state in favour of a republic. Instead, early indications signal we will continue bowing to the monarchy for many more years, writes Stephen Saunders.
Shareholders in US social media giant Twitter have voted almost unanimously to approve a deal struck with Elon Musk earlier in the year to purchase the company.
Based on a preliminary tabulation of the stockholder vote, some 98.6 per cent of the votes cast at the Tuesday special meeting approved the proposal to adopt the deal.
This paves the way for Twitter to attempt to legally compel the Space X and Tesla head to go through with his acquisition of the company after he unilaterally terminated the deal in July.
In her ‘devotion to duty’ the Queen sacked an Australian PM described by Philip as a ‘socialist arsehole’. By John Menadue
In the mammoth royal love in we are enduring, we are told about the Queen’s cordial relationship with numerous PMs. But not Gough Whitlam. That would upset our colonial mind set. We try and shut out the Queen’s implausible and misleading denial on the Whitlam sacking.
Australia’s elites not only believe but speak much the same as do Newzealanders with one exception they have no treaty with their Indigenous peoples, no Bill of Rights and believe neither is needed.
Even though most Canadians would prefer an elected head of state, Charles III is the country’s new king. But enduring monarchism does suit Canadian elites, whose worldview is sustained by the idea of inherited privilege and power embodied by the crown.
Truss is noted for being against and then for Brexit, and then for and against Climate change. She’s nobody’s Truss. The UK is lost more than it realises.
Channelling Margaret Thatcher, her political idol, Truss donned a helmet and radio headset in images reminiscent of the former prime minister taking a spin in a tank while visiting British forces in West Germany in 1986.
In the months since, the 47-year-old has even been accused of deliberately dressing like Thatcher, the first woman to become British prime minister, whose decade-long reign in Downing Street remains divisive across the union decades on.
Bolt and Dean will continue to claim it’s normal “nothing to see here” 4 La Ninas in a row
Flood and severe weather warnings are in place across parts of Victoria, Queensland and NSW as Australia’s east coast braces for another wet spring and summer.
Andrew Bolt said it years ago, that he preferred writing Obituaries because journalism was too disiplined, too professional, and hard work. He then moved on to be what Justice Mordecai Bromberg called a “lazy journalist” with no respect for facts and guilty of racial vilification, fake news and discrimination under the Act.
Andrew Bolt, Rowan Dean et al all cry foul and declare their right to “freedom of speech”. It’s their yardstick which relativises everything.The flat earth society beliefs are as valid as any other. It justifies these idiots saying they are experts on anything and everything the chose. That they are equal to any professional, scientist or journalist whose work and process standards Bolt once declared he found far too difficult to be interested in. Yes two neanderthals Bolt and Dean have levitated themselves to being experts in anything they chose science, economics, sex, disciplines no more relevant than what Bolt and Dean say because speech is free.
What is held as truth for them is the Goebellian power of distributed opinion and thats what fuels News Corp’s business model whose destination is profit not truth. The title News Corp is in fact an oxymoron the corporation isn’t a harbinger of news or truth. It manufactures whatever it wants propaganda for profit operating in the marketplace of wealth and among those with the most money and doesn’t waste its time informing the majority at all but rather influencing them. It’s no coincidence their business model aligns them with the IPA, the LNP and the interests and ideology of 1% of the nation.
University of Western Australia law professor Michael Douglas said that “Lachlan Keith Murdoch v Private Media Pty Ltd” would be the first high-profile test of amendments to Australia’s defamation law passed last year.
Thousands of people young and old lined up to pay their respects and view the body of Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend the funeral of the former Soviet leader
Many Western leaders were absent from the funeral due to tense relations between Moscow and the West
The man affectionately known as ‘Gorby’ in the West and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his role in ending the Cold War is buried at Moscow’s famous Novodevichy cemetery alongside his wife Raisa, who died in 1999.
Some 8 influential Russians against Putin have now died under suspicious circumstances and others are incarcerated, Gorbachev ex-President hasn’t been awarded a State Funeral and Putin didn’t bother to attend. Nevertheless, Trump still is in awe of the Russian State and Putin’s power.
A recent Lowy Institute poll showed that just over half the Australian population is not in favour of supporting the United States in a war against China.
A 6 year trial and a 12 year sentence Israel declares Halabi “lucky” to gey 12years. However,they can’t and won’t show you or even his his defence team any of the evidence that brought about their fair and balanced sentence.
World Vision Australia was the Charity’s biggest donor and after forensically auditing the accounts didn’t find a shekel misused.
Israel has kinapped they say arrested, imprisoned they say held for trial others in similar fashion. They murdered an Australian and called it suicide assinated people outside their borders and used fake Australian documents as a cover. Simply said they have acted in much the same way as the Saudis did and yet have never been held to account for their crimes. Jews must feel ashamed what is being done today in their name by this Apartheid State..
World Vision International worker accused of funnelling aid money to Hamas in trial largely held in secret
cash transfer increased CCKC4’s assets from $37 million in 2019 to $1.3 billion at the close of 2020.”
“CCKC4 presumably stands for ‘Charles Chase Koch 501(c)(4).’ It has no website nor public presence. CCKC4 filed IRS 990s in 2018 and 2019, and received its determination letter confirming its tax-exempt status in May of 2020,” CMD reported.
Lets face it where you find Tony Abbott and Nigel Farage you find a vacuum in intelligence. They are the litmus test’s warning.
It is easy to mock the Australian CPAC, a tawdry echo of its toxic American model. What is crucial to note, however, is that the lies and distortions inherent in culture wars are the tool that Dutton hopes to use to turn his 17% approval rating into electoral success. The damage done to the US and UK by culture war wielding “conservatives” is inestimable and should not be underestimated. Above all, they foster bigotry and division, creating chasms in the civic space that cannot be bridged by civil discourse. Without an overlapping reality, democracy must fail.
Andrew Bolt lays claims to being Dutch and dreams of retiring in Amsterdam. In the meantime he makes it clear he hates Australia and in particular Melbourne which is far too progressive for his tastes. What’s that make him other than a hypocrite and of the worst kind. Amsterdam where he dreams of retiring on a barge to write a book has twice the population of Melbourne. Is far more multicultural, multi-ethnic and has a far greater Muslim population. The city is far more progressive and leans more aggressively left politically, culturally and economically. All the characteristics he whines about here, The country on the whole is even much greener. It seems they wouldn’t want Bolt. He’s simply not Dutch enough for them.
Reuters also reports on Oceans of Energy’s offshore floating solar array. Solar panels are bulky and take up a lot of space, which is at a premium in a densely populated country such as the Netherlands. Putting the panels offshore resolves that problem, since the Netherlands has plenty of sea coast. The Oceans of Energy program deployed a floating solar array in rough waters and high winds in 2020, and it has functioned fine. They have plans gradually to expand it to a megawatt this year, and then 15 megawatts in 2023.
“President Trump wants the Attorney General to know that he has been hearing from people all over the country about the raid. If there was one word to describe their mood, it is ‘angry,’ ” a Trump lawyer told a senior Justice Department official three days after the search at Mar-a-Lago. “The heat is building up. The pressure is building up. Whatever I can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know.”
“As questions ricochet around Scott Morrison’s secret ministerial powers, a rhetorical one hovers above: Why is anyone surprised?
There’s been a pattern to Morrison’s activities for years, even just those we knew about. It goes to a disregard for proper process, a whatever-it-takes attitude to securing and wielding personal power, a disconnection between words and actions, and a propensity to dissemble and operate away from the light.
Why is it we seem so far behind other countries where business relationships aren’t adversorial? Relationships elsewhere tend to be based on problem solving. Whereas here in Australia history has shown we are great problem creators. We are still locked in a class war where your problems aren’t mine fo fuck off.
The Jobs summit is already beginning to appear to be a show. Let’s not prove Dutton right because if he is heaven help a united Australia. Bigger changes are necessary.
Jobs summit: Business and unions in accord but Canberra clash looms
Business Council of Australia (BCA) chief Jennifer Westacott expressed hesitation on Sunday about what she styled as unintended consequences, including the potential for employers in one part of a supply chain to face pressure to grant concessions they could not meet but which had become a standard after they were agreed to by businesses in other parts of an industry.
“At an industry level, we [could] try to fix one problem and end up with a lot more,” she told the ABC on Sunday.
As the jobs summit talks skills – we predict which occupations will have shortages and surpluses in the next 2 years
3 Suggestions
encourage and enable people to qualify quickly and cheaply for occupations where supply is not keeping up – in particular, personal carers, education aides and the construction-related occupations. This may require more places to be offered in existing courses at TAFEs or other vocational education providers, and it may require design of new, shorter qualifications. Fees for these qualifications should be reduced or removed altogether
offer more domestic bachelor degree places for students to study nursing and midwifery. These students may be diverted from other bachelor degree courses. These courses necessarily take time to complete, so including nurses in our migration intake will also need to play a role
allow wages to climb in low-skilled, less fulfilling jobs such as checkout operators and sales assistants, until such time as automation becomes worthwhile. After that, people who would have been doing these jobs can instead address shortages in hospitality, which is more difficult to automate, or undertake a small amount of training to qualify as personal carers and assistants or education aides.
Australia’s constitution is outdated, antidemocratic, and has consistently blocked social democratic reforms. That’s why we need to rip it up and write a new one.
At the same time, new analysis this week revealed that the CEOs at the top ASX-listed companies earned 132 times the average Australian salary. Some made even more: the boss of CSL raked in $58.9 million.
How about that? 132 times! Of course, these disparities will always be with us: risk, reward — all that. But I wonder if I’m going to hear Mr Tens of Millions gripe in the near future about lack of growth, poor productivity and the need for better training, while women with three degrees take his kids through the alphabet?
Lately, Donald Trump has been screaming into the void. He is taking to his own social media site, Truth Social, to complain about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, but not many people (bar a few reporters) seem to be listening. That’s a far cry from his days as a Twitter influencer before he was finally booted from the platform.
THE WORLD enjoyed a monumentally satisfying series of moments recently, moments that don’t come often enough, of watching a key far-right figure get their comeuppance.
Will the LNP argue too much or too little? Has the ALP caved? What is the % increase?
Research shows 90% of coal and 60% of oil and gas reserves must stay in the ground if we’re to have half a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5℃ this century.
Attention surrounds the actions of Scott Morrison in appointing himself to extra ministries, unbeknown to the nation, even colleagues. But this is not the only area where the Coalition played fast and loose with our governing conventions. And in doing so it has opened the office of the Governor-General to another controversy, writes #Mate.
Western estimates of Russian dead in the Ukraine war have ranged from more than 15,000 to over 20,000 — more than the Soviet Union lost during its 10-year war in Afghanistan. The Pentagon said last week that as many as 80,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded, eroding Moscow’s ability to conduct big offensives.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has refused to defend Scott Morrison’s decision to secretly appoint himself to five ministries, following scathing advice from the nation’s top lawyer.
It seems what Chris Stirewalt, ex-political editor at Fox for 11 yrs who was fired after being the first to declare Arizona for the Dems in 2020, hit the nail on the head in his book on the Murdoch’s and Fox. They aren’t in the business for any ideological reasons. They are in it for the money and ratings. While they currently seem to be losing badly they are making an enormous leap in profits and that’s all that matters.
The Murdochs are losing that battle on all counts in Australia. Money, ratings, and who they support are all losers and have been for years so they are now suing the opposition media who have far less money why? Because they can and and not because their personal feelings have been hurt. It’s an attention seeking shot across the bows of their critics down under. Many have said a lot worse than Crikey and their publishers. But Sky News need something to rant about to attracy attention. Meanwhile in America Fox is being sued for billions by Dominion the voting machine company for the damages Fox has caused their business and not their feelings.
what Fox’s kingmakers look for in candidates — unhinged demagoguery for Carlson and unthinking fealty to Trump for Hannity — doesn’t necessarily appeal to swing state voters. And Fox is now floundering to respond as its hand-picked nominees imperil the GOP’s chances of taking control of the Senate.Some network personalities are acknowledging that the party’s nominees are unusually weak — albeit, not the ones they themselves supported.
While the research predicts “a potentially bleak future for many marine species,” the authors say it “also measures how much our oceans and the life within them stand to benefit from both climate change mitigation and adaptation.”
Republican Congressman wants Science and History out of schools.
From Marx and Engels to the present day, socialists have been deeply engaged with the world of science. With the provision of lifesaving vaccines held hostage by corporate profiteering, the story of this relationship is more important than ever.
AUSTRALIA’S OFFICIAL jobless rate is now 3.38%, the lowest in nearly 50 years. But all is not well. More than 1.3 million Australians still can’t get enough work to live on, and 474,000 of these can’t find any jobs at all. Job vacancies in May (latest data) were at an all-time high of 480,100 and real wages are still declining.
But help may be on the way in the form of next month’s Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra.
American Democracy guarantees Trump has inordinate power despite the Majority’s want.
According to the poll, 57 percent of voters said they thought investigations into Trump’s conduct should continue “because he needs to be held accountable,” while 40 percent said they should not continue “because they are politically motivated and divide the nation.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, there were stark differences along party lines: While 92 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of independents approved of the investigations, just 21 percent of Republicans thought the same.
All it took was an unprotected email server, some automatically saved credit card information, and a cunning scammer for Victorian businessman Mike Daws to lose over $8000 while on a trip to the United States.
“Towards the end of Tony Abbott’s prime ministership, Malcolm Turnbull’s staff began referring to Abbott’s office as the “Führer’s bunker”. There was a general sense he had gone mad. He had fallen out of conversation with the public and was barricading himself in the suite.
At the time, Abbott seemed to be the worst prime minister in Australia’s history. That was because Scott Morrison hadn’t had a go yet. Abbott lied constantly. He was oafish and unimaginative. He used the o… See more
Morrison’s contempt for process is famous. He lives without contrition. He will say whatever he thinks he can get away with saying. It is strange that a man so fundamentally unserious could so seriously rig and bend the political system.
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