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It's not too presumptuous for the community to expect legitimate tax loopholes to be eliminated so that big businesses pay their fair share like the rest of us.
The corporations paying diddly squat in tax, putting the burden on the rest of us
~ @vmp9
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Looking at Australia through the lens of award-winning photojournalist Bill McAuley.
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'With a disciplinarian’s stiffness in logic, the judge also expressed her difficulty accepting that feelings of sadness and isolation had been occasioned by a lack of Vegemite.'
Convicted murderer loses fight to have Vegemite in gaol ~ Dr Binoy Kampmark
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'But the casual on the shop floor has no policy covering her. Neither does the small supplier owed for last season's stock.'
David Jones collapse — no one gets the blame, everyone gets the bill ~ Wayne Hawkins
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'Do we really want Australia to become a nation of winners and losers, where food and financial security are prizes in life's economic contest?'
Fair go for some, economic hardship for others in wealthy Australia ~ Professor Carl Rhodes
@ProfCarlRhodes
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The Albanese Government's proposed Defence legislation raises serious concerns over sweeping ministerial powers, reduced parliamentary scrutiny and weakened oversight.
AUKUS Bill hands sweeping powers to Defence Minister
~ David Higginbottom
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The stunning repudiation of Donald Trump and Trumpism in the U.S. midterm elections is an extraordinary historic “correction”.
JEFF MCMULLEN: Trump's midterm humiliation signals democratic correction
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Meanwhile, Australians see red upon another interest rate rise...
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In 1967, a teacher turned a history class into a movement in five days. Today, the same playbook is pulling young men into the manosphere and away from democracy, and nobody calls time.
The manosphere's Third Wave threatens democracy
~ Wayne Hawkins
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Independent Australia needs your help to survive!
Fight Big Tech fakery. Let truth live. Support IA. Not AI.
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Defending Country and Defend Sacred Ground have different aims, but agree the Australian War Memorial needs clarity on frontier conflict.
How should the Memorial address conflict between settlers and Indigenous peoples?
~ Roger Karge & Peter O'Brien
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Defending Country and Defend Sacred Ground have different aims, but agree the Australian War Memorial needs clarity on frontier conflict.
How should the Memorial address conflict between settlers and Indigenous peoples?
~ Peter Stanley
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Trump's electoral defeat may weaken his grip on power, but the grievances fuelling America's authoritarian right threaten to outlast his presidency.
Trump's defeat won't end America's authoritarian threat
~ Andrew Long
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'Today, with two years of increasing violence, both rhetorical and physical, on the part of the second Trump administration, that same line has undeniably been crossed.'
American oligarchs have always supported the king ~ Jeff Peck
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'UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese gave the mechanism a name: mediacide, the systematic destruction of the media's public function.'
Truth under the rubble: media in the time of genocide ~ David Higginbottom
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'6G could deliver valuable improvements in efficiency, resilience, network intelligence and satellite integration.'
New plan needed to deliver 6G technological and revenue benefits ~ Paul Budde @paulbudde
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Australia’s worsening housing crisis exposes an economic system that puts profit before people, leaving governments unable or unwilling to deliver meaningful solutions.
Australia's housing crisis exposes the failures of capitalism
~ William Briggs
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As Trump undermines America’s global standing, China gains influence, but Xi Jinping’s ambitions for Taiwan threaten to derail its rise.
Trump gives China a boost, but Taiwan remains Xi’s biggest dilemma
~ Dr Mark Beeson
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Jim Chalmers could turn Labor’s political fortunes with spending cuts that deliver budget surpluses, lower inflation and interest rate relief ahead of the 2028 Election.
Budget tough love could deliver Labor an election-winning surplus
~ @TheKouk
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Major political parties are failing to address growing permanent visa backlogs, risking legal challenges and mounting pressure from employers and families.
Politicians ignore permanent migration program planning at their peril
~ @RizviAbul
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