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View from The Hill: Former Liberal senator accuses ‘the boys’ of using women to undermine Sussan Ley
Former senator Hollie Hughes has gone on a verbal rampage to defend Opposition leader Sussan Ley, accusing “the boys” who want her job of using prominent female colleagues in their efforts to undermine her. Hughes this week resigned from the Liberal Party, saying as she no longer had the
For the first time since May, the Bank of England has inched a little closer to its 2 per cent inflation target. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics this morning show that last month the Consumer Price Index fell to 3.6 per cent from 3.8 per cent in September.
2020 figures
2015 figures
Unfortunately for the government, the slight ...
The Victorian government has announced it will send social workers to 20 of the state’s schools to try to reduce violent youth crime. It will spend A$5.6 million on “targeted” schools next year. The aim is to “intervene early in the lives of children who are heading down the
Phew! We were all waiting for the Liberal Party to call a spill and remove its leader. Surely it was only a matter of time before the party room pulled the plug on a leader languishing galaxies behind in the polls. Just throw a dart at the directory of Liberal MPs and wherever it hits is bound to be an improvement. Well, 90 per cent likely to be. Okay, ...
The contrast could hardly have been starker. As Donald Trump palled around with Mohammed bin Salman in the newly gilded Oval Office, Congress was voting on a transparency act that would further expose Jeffrey Epstein’s grave misdeeds. Trump, who had worked overtime to try and quash the vote, was in his element with the Saudi crown prince. Transparency? ...
New data show wages have risen by a bit more than inflation, but overall real wages are still languishing near 2011 levels. Over the year to September, wages rose 3.4% in seasonally adjusted terms. That’s according to the latest wage price index data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS),
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Take it from me: leadership challenges are the beginning of the end. Barely twelve months after Conservative feuding led to one of their biggest defeats in electoral history, the Labour party have listened, watched, reflected – and seemingly learnt zero lessons.
Many arguments have been made as to why the Tories collapsed last year. Doomed flights to ...
Canadian public servants have used 14% more sick days since they were forced back to the office last year. Data obtained by the Ottawa Citizen shows sick leave jumped from 209,395 in September 2023 to 238,668 days in September 2024. Public servants took 129,570 sick days in September 2020, when
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) has launched a month-long consultation on reforms responding to unfair trading practices. DISR noted no major change to Australia’s trade remedies system had occurred in 10 years, while the number of trade interventions has increased, and global industrial investment and trade have
Newly released documents reveal how Australia’s covert role in Chile’s 1973 coup fed the tensions that ultimately consumed the Whitlam Government. read now...
It’s a strange world when a president of the United States goes out of his way to defend someone named by U.S. intelligence as having approved the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. read now...
View from The Hill: Former Liberal senator accuses ‘the boys’ of using women to undermine Sussan Ley
Former senator Hollie Hughes has gone on a verbal rampage to defend Opposition leader Sussan Ley, accusing “the boys” who want her job of using prominent female colleagues in their efforts to undermine her. Hughes this week resigned from the Liberal Party, saying as she no longer had the
For the first time since May, the Bank of England has inched a little closer to its 2 per cent inflation target. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics this morning show that last month the Consumer Price Index fell to 3.6 per cent from 3.8 per cent in September.
2020 figures
2015 figures
Unfortunately for the government, the slight ...
The Victorian government has announced it will send social workers to 20 of the state’s schools to try to reduce violent youth crime. It will spend A$5.6 million on “targeted” schools next year. The aim is to “intervene early in the lives of children who are heading down the
Phew! We were all waiting for the Liberal Party to call a spill and remove its leader. Surely it was only a matter of time before the party room pulled the plug on a leader languishing galaxies behind in the polls. Just throw a dart at the directory of Liberal MPs and wherever it hits is bound to be an improvement. Well, 90 per cent likely to be. Okay, ...
The contrast could hardly have been starker. As Donald Trump palled around with Mohammed bin Salman in the newly gilded Oval Office, Congress was voting on a transparency act that would further expose Jeffrey Epstein’s grave misdeeds. Trump, who had worked overtime to try and quash the vote, was in his element with the Saudi crown prince. Transparency? ...
New data show wages have risen by a bit more than inflation, but overall real wages are still languishing near 2011 levels. Over the year to September, wages rose 3.4% in seasonally adjusted terms. That’s according to the latest wage price index data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS),
A spokesperson for Meta said that it was not stopping users under 16 from creating accounts or testing the feature, after users were unable to create teen accounts on Wednesday.
Take it from me: leadership challenges are the beginning of the end. Barely twelve months after Conservative feuding led to one of their biggest defeats in electoral history, the Labour party have listened, watched, reflected – and seemingly learnt zero lessons.
Many arguments have been made as to why the Tories collapsed last year. Doomed flights to ...
Canadian public servants have used 14% more sick days since they were forced back to the office last year. Data obtained by the Ottawa Citizen shows sick leave jumped from 209,395 in September 2023 to 238,668 days in September 2024. Public servants took 129,570 sick days in September 2020, when
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) has launched a month-long consultation on reforms responding to unfair trading practices. DISR noted no major change to Australia’s trade remedies system had occurred in 10 years, while the number of trade interventions has increased, and global industrial investment and trade have
Newly released documents reveal how Australia’s covert role in Chile’s 1973 coup fed the tensions that ultimately consumed the Whitlam Government. read now...