The new Liberal leader unveiled his shadow cabinet in Sydney yesterday with very few surprises, and American civil rights icon Jesse Jackson has died aged 84. The post Angus Taylor’s
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Sometimes I embrace delusions of owning a small apartment. As a single, young, working-class professional with no particular victim cards, the bank will loan me about five cents with a kidney kept as collateral on a 40-year loan. The search results are dire. For hours, I sit there wondering if I’d be prepared to share a laundry with strangers and ...
After decades of relatively tight development controls and delays in approving new building developments in New South Wales, especially mid to high-density residential housing, the shackles are now off. Major problems are already arising with community anger on the rise.
The state government, through a set of new planning instruments (most notably Low ...
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has appointed Tim Wilson, the only Liberal to win back a “teal” seat last year, to go head-to-head as shadow treasurer against the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers. Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume will take on a major economic role as shadow minister for employment, industrial relations, productivity
In 1997 the doyen of Democrat political columnists in the US, E.J. Dionne, published They Only Look Dead. He argued that while the received wisdom was that the Republicans were set to dominate politics for a generation, there were underlying factors which pointed to a Democrat revival. Dionne was both completely wrong but also completely right. George ...
Britain’s jobs market continues to struggle. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning show that the unemployment rate increased to 5.2 per cent, the highest rate in almost five years.
Today’s release contains other worrying signals. The number of payrolled employees fell by 134,000 in the year up to January. Some 11,000 ...
Last week could have been worse for Sir Keir Starmer, but only because he remains Prime Minister – for the time being. After the tawdry relationship between Lord Mandelson and the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein surged back into the headlines, Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, was forced to resign as a burnt offering. For a while it ...
I’ve got a new thriller out this week, under my pen name of S.K. Tremayne. I am pleased with the book, and I believe it’s entertaining. I am also aware that, in a tough and competitive market, that may not be enough for it to succeed. I am even more aware that readers might decide the book is dreck. They might give me one star reviews, and no sales. ...
The death of the actor Robert Duvall at the age of 95 – almost exactly a year after that of his friend Gene Hackman – brings to the end another chapter of Old Hollywood. But unlike Hackman, who combined on-screen brilliance with a combustible, confrontational personality, Duvall was a thoroughly professional and popular figure who was a delight to work ...
Yet another immigration and human rights story scandalised the right-leaning press yesterday. Thirty-odd arrivals who came by boat in 2020 have, according to the Home Office, received damages totalling around £200,000. This came after a 2022 decision by the High Court which found their human rights had been infringed when on arrival they had been ...
Racism is a “widespread” and “systemic” problem in Australian universities, a major new report has found. According to the Australian Human Rights Commission, about 80% of surveyed Indigenous, Chinese, African, Jewish and Middle Eastern students and staff say they have experienced racism at university. Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan ...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government will not help repatriate the 34 Australian women and children with links to Islamic State fighters who were released from a detention camp in Syria and are reportedly trying to return to Australia. The women and children were among more than 2,000
The new Liberal leader unveiled his shadow cabinet in Sydney yesterday with very few surprises, and American civil rights icon Jesse Jackson has died aged 84. The post Angus Taylor’s
Sometimes I embrace delusions of owning a small apartment. As a single, young, working-class professional with no particular victim cards, the bank will loan me about five cents with a kidney kept as collateral on a 40-year loan. The search results are dire. For hours, I sit there wondering if I’d be prepared to share a laundry with strangers and ...
After decades of relatively tight development controls and delays in approving new building developments in New South Wales, especially mid to high-density residential housing, the shackles are now off. Major problems are already arising with community anger on the rise.
The state government, through a set of new planning instruments (most notably Low ...
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has appointed Tim Wilson, the only Liberal to win back a “teal” seat last year, to go head-to-head as shadow treasurer against the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers. Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume will take on a major economic role as shadow minister for employment, industrial relations, productivity
In 1997 the doyen of Democrat political columnists in the US, E.J. Dionne, published They Only Look Dead. He argued that while the received wisdom was that the Republicans were set to dominate politics for a generation, there were underlying factors which pointed to a Democrat revival. Dionne was both completely wrong but also completely right. George ...
Britain’s jobs market continues to struggle. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning show that the unemployment rate increased to 5.2 per cent, the highest rate in almost five years.
Today’s release contains other worrying signals. The number of payrolled employees fell by 134,000 in the year up to January. Some 11,000 ...
Last week could have been worse for Sir Keir Starmer, but only because he remains Prime Minister – for the time being. After the tawdry relationship between Lord Mandelson and the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein surged back into the headlines, Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, was forced to resign as a burnt offering. For a while it ...
I’ve got a new thriller out this week, under my pen name of S.K. Tremayne. I am pleased with the book, and I believe it’s entertaining. I am also aware that, in a tough and competitive market, that may not be enough for it to succeed. I am even more aware that readers might decide the book is dreck. They might give me one star reviews, and no sales. ...
The death of the actor Robert Duvall at the age of 95 – almost exactly a year after that of his friend Gene Hackman – brings to the end another chapter of Old Hollywood. But unlike Hackman, who combined on-screen brilliance with a combustible, confrontational personality, Duvall was a thoroughly professional and popular figure who was a delight to work ...
Yet another immigration and human rights story scandalised the right-leaning press yesterday. Thirty-odd arrivals who came by boat in 2020 have, according to the Home Office, received damages totalling around £200,000. This came after a 2022 decision by the High Court which found their human rights had been infringed when on arrival they had been ...
Racism is a “widespread” and “systemic” problem in Australian universities, a major new report has found. According to the Australian Human Rights Commission, about 80% of surveyed Indigenous, Chinese, African, Jewish and Middle Eastern students and staff say they have experienced racism at university. Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan ...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government will not help repatriate the 34 Australian women and children with links to Islamic State fighters who were released from a detention camp in Syria and are reportedly trying to return to Australia. The women and children were among more than 2,000