Varoufakis argues global elites are following a “blueprint for the revival of fascism”, one he imagines dictators Mussolini, Hitler and Franco might have written “had [they] gotten together in 1945”.
A move to toughen Australia’s immigration laws while offering Iranian soccer football players asylum has been labelled “hypocritical” by the Greens and refugee advocates.
Tanker traffic in the world’s most critical energy chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 per cent of the world’s oil supply is transported, has effectively halted. Brent crude surged as much as 13 per cent intraday to $82 a barrel. UBS analysts warn Brent could hit US$120 a barrel if the Strait remains blocked; and Barclays estimates a three-to-four week squeeze could push prices above US$100. On Monday, Qatar’s national LNG company, 20 per cent of global supply, halted production and Saudi Arabia shut its biggest domestic oil refinery after a drone strike.
The stereotypes of democratic decline are rigged elections or daily street chaos. However, Australia’s democratic decline is happening much more quietly, with weakening whistleblower protections and the steady expansion of laws over several years that have made protest riskier than ever.
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260306-the-decline-in-democracy-what-does-it-mean-for-the-generations-to-come
Policy changes introduced and maintained under Abbott’s leadership [PM from Sep 2013 to Sep 2015] played a central role in driving that growth. The rate of growth in overseas student numbers from 2013 to 2019 is extraordinary (an increase of over 200,000 in just six years). These understandably fell during COVID and then increased even more rapidly after COVID due to further measures to accelerate the return of students implemented by the Morrison Government. These measures included unrestricted student visa work rights, fee-free applications, and a covid visa, which attracted huge numbers of students to switch to this cheap visa with unrestricted work rights and no requirement to study. The new Albanese Government was slow to tighten these policies.
Australia has been quietly executing one of the harshest deportation regimes in the so-called democratic world. It has done so not through emergency powers or wartime necessity, but through ordinary legislation — principally the Migration Act 1958, and s 501, the so-called “character” provision.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday that he could not rule out his country taking part militarily in the ongoing Middle East conflict.
Broad opposition to controversial freedom of information (FOI) law reforms that would have made accessing documents harder has forced Labor to back down.
The NSW government will back reforms that allow driving exemptions for medical cannabis patients, with Premier Chris Minns telling budget estimates on Thursday his government would be investigating new roadside drug testing rules for those impacted.
Same old right-wing nepo Party play book find the money teet, 🦃 ‘gobble-gobble’ 🦃; coupled with disturbing fraud or disastrous incompetence in managing Party finances, you take your pick. Incompetence and catastrophy for Nation in Government is assured.
The attack on Iran was “clearly a violation of the ban on the use of force under the UN charter and international law, which is the linchpin of the international order since 1945,” he told Guardian Australia on Sunday.
So here’s the uncomfortable question Australians should ask, especially when our leader Anthony Albanese was so quick to line up behind the strikes: what exactly is the theory of change?
Australia has declared its support for US action against Iran to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and “to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security”.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has offered an explanation for comments made this week about 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame in which he labelled her “difficult”.
In the same week Hanson refused to apologise for telling Sky News “how can you tell me there are good Muslims?”, 58% of respondents to the Essential poll said they either would vote for One Nation, or were open to voting for them, at the next election due by 2028.
With less than three months to go until the federal budget, you are going to be hearing a lot more about tax. It seems that something is finally going to be done to fix the capital gains tax, but already conservatives are working to give the richest another tax cut.
Police have seized art posters from a Canberra music venue and bar that depict world leaders and others, including Donald Trump and Elon Musk, wearing Nazi uniforms, and are investigating whether new federal hate symbol laws were broken.
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Probably safe to assume that by housing affordability he means affordability of mansions and by cutting red tape he’s referring to getting rid of regulations stopping him from sucking up whats left of the Murray Darling..
If AI doesn’t become super profitable, at least we’ll have some big data centres to store and process government surveillance data? Underpants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpnM37A4P_8
Profit: https://stories.theconversation.com/can-australia-build-one-of-the-worlds-largest-data-centres/
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