A single, small, low-quality do-it-yourself poster recently displayed in the center of Germany’s capital Berlin has caused a minor scandal that has gone against the grain of the country’s usually unshakable support for Israel while the latter is committing genocide.
The latest ASIC data shows that the construction sector leads the nation’s insolvencies, with 2,795 firms going under so far this financial year, representing a 24% increase on 2024. The following chart from Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro illustrates the rising construction sector insolvencies, which are tracking at around double the pre-pandemic norm: Last week,
Chosen on Tuesday as the first woman to lead the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, Sussan Ley is assured of a place in history as breaker of the party's "glass ceiling".
But politics has its own traditions, so another phrase may fit better: the "glass casing".
The Élysée Palace has derided as “disinformation” claims being promoted by Kremlin figures that Emmanuel Macron took cocaine with Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, and Keir Starmer while on a train travelling to Kyiv.
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The algorithm knows me, which is why it served up this piece of sports writing about caffeine.
It was just past 11:20 a.m. on a Monday in New York City when the caffeine began to take hold. My head buzzed. My stomach sloshed. I had felt so confident just a couple of hours earlier. Now I felt defeated.
I was no Dan Campbell.
By Stephen Saunders Labor has the ideal ABC for 2025-31—a powerful and complacent woke-left propaganda-ministry. The broadcaster’s overdue shunt of overrated Laura Tingle is typical. For wicked immigration-influencers like “independent” Abul Rizvi, or Australian un-National University’s Liz Allen and Alan Gamlen, it’s second nature to play the Racist Card to shut down popular resistance to
According to the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP), Victoria has the nation’s lowest level of social housing as a proportion of the overall housing stock. Public housing in Victoria has slumped from a high of around 4% in 1994 to a low of about 2.4% currently. The figure rises to around 2.9% when community housing
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We can’t make plastics for anything. Nor windows for anything. Nor towers for anything. Nor explosive inputs. Nor anything for anything. The one thing you would think we were good at is making shit. But no, the great Australian idiot can no longer even take a dump. AFR. High power prices could force the closure of
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Let’s take a walk down memory lane. The date is 13 August 2019, six months before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Australia. Infrastructure Australia’s (IA) Australian Infrastructure Audit was released, warning that $40 billion a year of infrastructure investment is needed to catch up with Australia’s voracious population growth. Otherwise, productivity and living standards will
