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The shocking brutality behind Gaza’s crumbling ceasefire
The shocking brutality behind Gaza’s crumbling ceasefire
The shocking brutality behind Gaza’s crumbling ceasefire
www.independent.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“Please tune out Bibi Netanyahu,who exploits tragedy to attack allies only to deflect from his own profound failures as a leader”. Replace Bibi with LNP leadership and there you have it

www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
Australia is right to support a two-state solution: former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert
Benjamin Netanyahu had no right to claim Australia “poured fuel on the antisemitic fire” that caused the Bondi massacre, writes Israel’s former prime minister.
www.smh.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
How did we end up with a Woolies and Cole’s (capitalist) model and here in Switzerland they have 2 co-operatives as their largest food retailers ?
Who got the rough end of the pineapple ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_(S...
Coop (Switzerland) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
August 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
What’s the number of empty long term rentals in Oz? And could the govt incentivise their sale / lease ?
bbc.com/news/article...
Empty home crisis: Why aren't they being used to solve shortages?
There are almost 720,000 empty homes in England. And many more on social housing waiting lists. Is using one to help solve the other a case of a missed opportunity?
bbc.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Ah Services Australia. It’s all in the name isn’t it.
Wasted tens of millions of $ on a Whole of govt ERP template ‘Servicing’ the big 4 and SAP whilst ‘No Services’ at all for some of the more marginalised people in society
#big4
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
'Should have learned from Robodebt': Welfare payments unlawfully cut off
Almost a thousand jobseekers had their income support payments unlawfully terminated over two years, the federal watchdog has found, cautioning the breach likely had a "profound if not catastrophic" i...
www.abc.net.au
August 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Once again doing the work of our somnambulic regulators, national treasure #AdeleFerguson #SMH

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Profit comes before safety inside Australia's childcare centres
For those like me who have been investigating childcare for almost a year now, the news was horrifying but not a surprise.
www.abc.net.au
July 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The NACC, taking a tabloid media approach to rooting out corruption.
2 years in and someone’s got a job for their Fiancé !
How about taking Chris Master on to take a look at the AFP ? “The Moonlight Nation” would be a great reveal
#NACC
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
‘Talk him through the lie’: Senior public servant promoted sister’s fiance, forged signature
The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s report included details of text messages between the sisters where they laughed about the plan.
www.smh.com.au
June 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
If every country did this, no one could be wedged by big tech and their political playthings …
“Canada's 3% digital services tax has been a sticking point in its relationship with the US since the law was enacted last year. The first payments are due on Monday.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump says he is cutting off trade talks with Canada
Canada had been hoping to secure a trade deal with the US next month to avoid steep tariffs.
www.bbc.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“Those additional hours performed by workers have not been matched by business investment in systems and technologies”
Lazy C level business culture prioritising share buybacks and dividend returns. We paid gold not peanuts, yet we still got monkeys!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Working longer hours is killing productivity, report warns
Australia is facing an urgent productivity problem, with a new report showing the country is at a standstill.
www.abc.net.au
May 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Gareth Evans was Oz Foreign Minister and the architect of the 1991 Paris Peace Accord, which ended war in Cambodia

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
‘The time is right’: Labor luminary calls for Netanyahu sanctions, Palestine statehood
Gareth Evans, Labor’s longest-serving foreign minister, rejected claims that recognising a Palestinian state would reward Hamas’ terrorism.
www.smh.com.au
May 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Democracy requires the losers to accept the decision of the electorate.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Australians can’t stand sore losers. How did politicians miss the memo?
The growing complaint about the historic May 3 election isn’t only that our voting system is busted. To some, it represents a full-blown conspiracy.
www.smh.com.au
May 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Interesting to see how this plays out. Government is trying multiple policies including big hike in capital gains tax to promote ownership over lordship.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Spain clamps down on Airbnb as tourism backlash returns for summer
The Spanish government calls for the removal of almost 66,000 property listings saying they breach tourism rules.
www.bbc.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
BREAKING NEWS | Spain will propose to the UN that the International Court of Justice rule on Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid in Gaza
ÚLTIMA HORA | España planteará a la ONU que la Corte Internacional de Justicia se pronuncie sobre el bloqueo de Israel a la ayuda humanitaria en Gaza

www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
May 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Delusional Reyonlds …
“we have to understand why women have turned away from our party and change."
Maybe buying a bigger mirror would be a good start
#ABC #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
'People aren’t relating to us': Linda Reynolds unloads on Liberal Party
Retiring Liberal senator Linda Reynolds labels the party's federal election campaign a "comprehensive failure", blasting it for not doing more to increase female representation.
www.abc.net.au
May 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Listing to Maxine McKew on RN on labour victory. Excellent analysis and articulate. David Pocock up next #abc #ausvotes
May 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
OMG more Angus Taylor “natural attrition” babbling nonsense on #ABC RN. The babbler from Bowral can’t explain the arithmetic
#ausvotes
May 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Angus Taylor is useless - babbling on about “natural attrition” magical thinking resulting in 41000 public sector job losses. Couldn’t count to 10 if his hands were in his pockets
#auspol
May 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whyalla steelworks not a unique event in countries that privatised critical industries after siping the neoliberal cool aid
“the last site in the UK that can produce virgin steel” and “the only member of the G7 group of leading economies without that ability”
British Steel: Government races to keep Scunthorpe furnaces burning
The government is working to obtain coal to power the company's furnaces after passing an emergency law to take control of its site.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
On our #ABC James Patterson repeated this lie regarding NVES putting up RAV4 costs by thousands of dollars.

www.aap.com.au/factcheck/na...
Nationals leader Littleproud wrong on Labor's new car emissions plan
David Littleproud said a new Toyota RAV4 will cost thousands of dollars more this year under new rules, but it will actually be thousands of dollars in
www.aap.com.au
April 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”
People of Whitlam - your newest LNP climate denier

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Replacement Liberal candidate a director of 'misleading' pro-gas group
The Liberal Party's replacement for its dumped candidate in the NSW seat of Whitlam is a director of a pro-gas group accused of misleading voters ahead of next month's federal election.
www.abc.net.au
April 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM