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Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage in Halifax, Canada

Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage in Halifax, Canada

A wildfire in the eastern Canadian city of Halifax has led to mandatory evacuation orders for thousands of homes, and officials said residents will not be not allowed to return until advised by municipal authorities. Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said the evacuations impacted about 18,000 people. The orders issued Sunday

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DNA tests show most wild dingoes are pure, not hybrids

DNA tests show most wild dingoes are pure, not hybrids

The majority of dingoes in Australia are pure-blooded and not a genetic mix with domestic dogs, according to surprising research. Scientists at the University of NSW say the results of their study challenge the existing view that pure dingo numbers are on the decline due to crossbreeding. Dingoes are genetically

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Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage in Halifax, Canada

Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage in Halifax, Canada

A wildfire in the eastern Canadian city of Halifax has led to mandatory evacuation orders for thousands of homes, and officials said residents will not be not allowed to return until advised by municipal authorities. Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said the evacuations impacted about 18,000 people. The orders issued Sunday

read more
DNA tests show most wild dingoes are pure, not hybrids

DNA tests show most wild dingoes are pure, not hybrids

The majority of dingoes in Australia are pure-blooded and not a genetic mix with domestic dogs, according to surprising research. Scientists at the University of NSW say the results of their study challenge the existing view that pure dingo numbers are on the decline due to crossbreeding. Dingoes are genetically

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Today’s Commentary from Independent Media

Nats say No to Dutton

Nats say No to Dutton

Nationals Leader David Littleproud does not and will not support Liberal Leader Peter Dutton’s claim the Voice will ‘re-racialise’ Australia, and Australians who rent pay nearly a third of their

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Erdogan’s debts are piling up

Erdogan’s debts are piling up

President Erdogan once again emerged victorious in Sunday’s presidential elections. In the highly contested race, he secured 52 per cent of the votes, beating his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu by four points. With challenges mounting from his previous terms, the next five years will be one of the most challenging for

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The next Chinese tech threat is already here

The next Chinese tech threat is already here

In recent years we’ve had fierce debates about the safety and security of Huawei, 5G, TikTok, semiconductors, ChatGPT and artificial intelligence. All of which may have given you technological indigestion. Let me add something even more threatening to the mix of the threat from China: the security of cellular (internet

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Bring Julian home

Bring Julian home

Australian voices rally to bring Julian Assange home. Dr John Jiggens highlights the growing pressure and heartfelt plea for his freedom. read now…

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Goodbye to WA’s worst ever Premier, Mark McGowan

Goodbye to WA’s worst ever Premier, Mark McGowan

Western Australia’s Labor Premier Mark McGowan has resigned after over six years and two months in the job. He said at the press conference announcing his resignation: ‘But the truth is I’m tired, extremely tired. In fact, I’m exhausted. The role of political leadership does not stop, it is relentless

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Mark McGowan quits in his own time, after dominating Western Australian politics

We need to change how we think and act

By Callen Sorensen Karklis Neoliberalism is an illness: unregulated capitalism, it is not just a political theory, it is a sick, deranged blight on the way we run our society. If anybody hasn’t watched the John Carpenter film “They Live”, I recommend seeing it. It is a film where society

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The trouble with Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra

The trouble with Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra

It’s the worst thing to happen to Cleopatra since that snake in the mausoleum. Queen Cleopatra is the second season of African Queens, a revisionist Netflix strand touting itself as a documentary series on black monarchs. Produced and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith, it is an attempt to repackage history for

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The Answer Isn’t Blowing in the Wind

The Answer Isn’t Blowing in the Wind

As do all religions, the new climate “religion” has a number of constituent parts. An evolving, increasingly ominous canon; namely, IPPC reports. Prophets galore: Al Gore, Michael Mann, Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough, Tim Flannery, ad infinitum. God? Gaia, possibly. And, lest we repent, a hurtling in sinful steps towards

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The legal challenge to assisted suicide

The legal challenge to assisted suicide

Lonnie VanHook was preparing to board the train to Oregon when his body gave out. The Navy veteran is accustomed to these sorts of betrayals. He is quadriplegic and legless to boot; a rare form of cancer is eating away at his skeletal-muscle tissues and bladder. He awoke in a

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Are electric vehicles really the future?

Are electric vehicles really the future?

It’s a cloudless spring day, made for a country drive. Chartreuse trees explode with pollen and glow to near neon. I wind past pastures and stone and brick farmhouses and amiable old barns that could set the scene of a Beatrix Potter story, elatedly adding to the hum of provincial

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Mark McGowan quits in his own time, after dominating Western Australian politics

How can we make the media less toxic?

“We in the media must ask if we are truly honouring a world worth living in. Too often we are the poison in the bloodstream of our society.” So said the Indigenous journalist, academic and Q+A host Stan Grant last week, explaining his decision to take a break from the

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The Anxiety of Influence: Harold Bloom’s (not so) influential idea at 50

The Anxiety of Influence: Harold Bloom’s (not so) influential idea at 50

Last Judgement – Michelangelo (c.1541): the image used for the cover of Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon. Wikimedia Commons.Joshua Cohen’s ribald campus novel The Netanyahus (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is set during the winter of 1959-60. It depicts Ben-Zion Netanyahu, father of the current Israeli Prime Minister, during

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Latest News

Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage in Halifax, Canada

Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage in Halifax, Canada

A wildfire in the eastern Canadian city of Halifax has led to mandatory evacuation orders for thousands of homes, and officials said residents will not be not allowed to return until advised by municipal authorities. Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said the evacuations impacted about 18,000 people. The orders issued Sunday

read more
DNA tests show most wild dingoes are pure, not hybrids

DNA tests show most wild dingoes are pure, not hybrids

The majority of dingoes in Australia are pure-blooded and not a genetic mix with domestic dogs, according to surprising research. Scientists at the University of NSW say the results of their study challenge the existing view that pure dingo numbers are on the decline due to crossbreeding. Dingoes are genetically

read more

World News

Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Key PointsAustralia’s four biggest banks are accused of $7 billion fossil fuel lending despite Paris climate goals.Loopholes allow for indirect corporate finance for coal, oil, and gas projects.Banks are being criticised for greenwashing and urged to disclose fossil fuel lending.Australia’s biggest four banks have been accused of pouring more than

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Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Key PointsUganda’s anti-LGBTIQ+ law signed by President Museveni has sparked global outrage risking aid sanctions.The law imposes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” and severe penalties for “promoting” it.Outrage has spread worldwide against the stringent anti-LGBTIQ+ legislation.Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws, including the

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As per your politics, debt ceiling plan is good or a ‘disaster’

As per your politics, debt ceiling plan is good or a ‘disaster’

The reviews are starting to come in as details emerge about the debt ceiling agreement reached by United States President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.Even before seeing those details, some politicians were criticising the deal as not doing enough to tackle the nation’s debt, while others worried it

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Iran journalist faces trial over charges tied to Amini protests

Iran journalist faces trial over charges tied to Amini protests

Iranian journalist Elaheh Mohammadi, one of two Iranian reporters accused of conspiring against national security, was tried in a closed court on charges linked to her coverage of Mahsa Amini’s funeral.An Iranian journalist has gone on trial behind closed doors on charges linked to her coverage of the funeral of

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Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Key PointsAustralia’s four biggest banks are accused of $7 billion fossil fuel lending despite Paris climate goals.Loopholes allow for indirect corporate finance for coal, oil, and gas projects.Banks are being criticised for greenwashing and urged to disclose fossil fuel lending.Australia’s biggest four banks have been accused of pouring more than

read more
Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Key PointsUganda’s anti-LGBTIQ+ law signed by President Museveni has sparked global outrage risking aid sanctions.The law imposes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” and severe penalties for “promoting” it.Outrage has spread worldwide against the stringent anti-LGBTIQ+ legislation.Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws, including the

read more
As per your politics, debt ceiling plan is good or a ‘disaster’

As per your politics, debt ceiling plan is good or a ‘disaster’

The reviews are starting to come in as details emerge about the debt ceiling agreement reached by United States President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.Even before seeing those details, some politicians were criticising the deal as not doing enough to tackle the nation’s debt, while others worried it

read more
Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Key PointsAustralia’s four biggest banks are accused of $7 billion fossil fuel lending despite Paris climate goals.Loopholes allow for indirect corporate finance for coal, oil, and gas projects.Banks are being criticised for greenwashing and urged to disclose fossil fuel lending.Australia’s biggest four banks have been accused of pouring more than

read more
Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Key PointsUganda’s anti-LGBTIQ+ law signed by President Museveni has sparked global outrage risking aid sanctions.The law imposes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” and severe penalties for “promoting” it.Outrage has spread worldwide against the stringent anti-LGBTIQ+ legislation.Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws, including the

read more
Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Key PointsAustralia’s four biggest banks are accused of $7 billion fossil fuel lending despite Paris climate goals.Loopholes allow for indirect corporate finance for coal, oil, and gas projects.Banks are being criticised for greenwashing and urged to disclose fossil fuel lending.Australia’s biggest four banks have been accused of pouring more than

read more
Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Key PointsAustralia’s four biggest banks are accused of $7 billion fossil fuel lending despite Paris climate goals.Loopholes allow for indirect corporate finance for coal, oil, and gas projects.Banks are being criticised for greenwashing and urged to disclose fossil fuel lending.Australia’s biggest four banks have been accused of pouring more than

read more
Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Key PointsUganda’s anti-LGBTIQ+ law signed by President Museveni has sparked global outrage risking aid sanctions.The law imposes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” and severe penalties for “promoting” it.Outrage has spread worldwide against the stringent anti-LGBTIQ+ legislation.Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws, including the

read more

World News

Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Exploiting loopholes: Big banks still lending billions to coal, oil and gas firms

Key PointsAustralia’s four biggest banks are accused of $7 billion fossil fuel lending despite Paris climate goals.Loopholes allow for indirect corporate finance for coal, oil, and gas projects.Banks are being criticised for greenwashing and urged to disclose fossil fuel lending.Australia’s biggest four banks have been accused of pouring more than

read more
Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTIQ+ law imposing death penalty for same-sex acts

Key PointsUganda’s anti-LGBTIQ+ law signed by President Museveni has sparked global outrage risking aid sanctions.The law imposes the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” and severe penalties for “promoting” it.Outrage has spread worldwide against the stringent anti-LGBTIQ+ legislation.Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s toughest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws, including the

read more
As per your politics, debt ceiling plan is good or a ‘disaster’

As per your politics, debt ceiling plan is good or a ‘disaster’

The reviews are starting to come in as details emerge about the debt ceiling agreement reached by United States President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.Even before seeing those details, some politicians were criticising the deal as not doing enough to tackle the nation’s debt, while others worried it

read more
Iran journalist faces trial over charges tied to Amini protests

Iran journalist faces trial over charges tied to Amini protests

Iranian journalist Elaheh Mohammadi, one of two Iranian reporters accused of conspiring against national security, was tried in a closed court on charges linked to her coverage of Mahsa Amini’s funeral.An Iranian journalist has gone on trial behind closed doors on charges linked to her coverage of the funeral of

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Business & The Economy

Australians not racist if they don’t vote for voice: PM

Australians not racist if they don’t vote for voice: PM

Australians who oppose the Indigenous voice to parliament are not racist, Anthony Albanese says. It follows Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accusing the prime minister of name calling over the voice debate. Asked if people who didn’t back the advisory body were racist, Mr Albanese responded “no” and said voters will

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Big banks lending billions to coal, oil, gas companies

Big banks lending billions to coal, oil, gas companies

Australia’s biggest four banks have been accused of pouring more than $7 billion into the expansion of fossil fuels in the past two years despite backing the Paris climate goals. Environmental group Market Forces says that in the seven years since the global Paris Agreement, ANZ, NAB, Commonwealth Bank and

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Treasury officials set to be questioned on PwC scandal

Treasury officials set to be questioned on PwC scandal

Treasury officials are set to be questioned on their knowledge of the PwC tax advice leak, as the consultancy firm stood down multiple partners involved in the scandal. Officials, including department secretary Steven Kennedy, will appear before Senate estimates on Tuesday, where questions on the tax advice scandal are set

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Women working full-time at record-high levels

Women working full-time at record-high levels

More women are working full-time than ever before as the ultra-competitive labour market draws more female workers into the 38-hour week. New analysis of official labour market data found women’s total employment is up 193,400 since May 2022, with most taking on full-time rather than part-time gigs. About 4300 women have

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Biotech success starts with precinct mindset

Biotech success starts with precinct mindset

Australia’s commercialisation woes have plagued the country for decades now.  Despite having world-leading research and tech entrepreneurs ready to bring it to the world, Australia has traditionally struggled to commercialise this research into viable products to be sold globally. This is very much on the radar

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Warning on Indigenous voice debate becoming ‘racist’

Warning on Indigenous voice debate becoming ‘racist’

Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan has warned against creating a racially charged debate over the Indigenous voice to parliament.  The call for civility came as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese received a standing ovation after he delivered the Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration in Adelaide on Monday night. Mr Albanese took aim

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Environment