The AUKUS security pact — which saw Australia abandon plans to buy French submarines — formed “delicious revenge” against Emmanuel Macron, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly claimed...............
https://theklaxon.com.au/aukus-was-revenge-against-french-boris-johnson-reportedly-claims/
The RBA is risking repeating the errors that led to the deep and dark recession of the early 1990s. Stephen Koukoulas reports.
For the last 18 months or so, the heavily indebted household
sector has been smashed by very high interest rates — too high for too long.
Businesses are hurting, too, but consumers are under the most pressure......
NORWAY HAS the world’s best economy for the second year in a row with its lead expanding dramatically. Australia has accelerated its surge up the global rankings, jumping from 13th place to seventh. The USA remains in the top 20, with strong income per person and growth in gross domestic product (GDP).
In order, the best-performed economies in 2024, with IAREM scores achieved, were:
In the UK from April 2026, farms and other business
property, which had been passed on to heirs tax-free, will have to pay an
inheritance tax (IHT).
So will the Anthony Albanese follow UK’s Labour Party lead?.........
A crew of four NASA astronauts was recently hospitalized
without explanation after returning to Earth on SpaceX's Dragon capsule. After
spending more than 200 days on the International Space Station (ISS), the
Crew-8 astronauts splashed down off the coast of Florida in the early morning
hours of October 25.
Big night out … from left, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder,
Jones, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie at the 1986 Grammys.
The Aboriginal Land Claim for Lawry Plunkett Reserve at
Balmoral Beach was rejected in February 2024. The NSW Crown Lands
spokesperson stated that the land was being used lawfully and was occupied for
recreation at the time of the claim.
A poor family from Alabama who were presented as
"celebrities" due to escaping the effects of hookworm disease, which
was brought upon by geophagia. (clay eating) 1913
Source: Reddit
The unidentified woman had a confrontation with members of
the Basij paramilitary force who ripped her headscarf and tore at her clothes
inside Tehran’s prestigious Islamic Azad University. It’s also alleged she was beaten during her
arrest and that information about her condition and whereabouts are not known.
A girl skates next to a statue of Lenin in the capital of Moldova, which is holding the runoff in its presidential elections on Sunday.
Voters say they hope the outcome of the presidential runoff
will draw Moldova closer to the European Union.
Some fear the election will be overshadowed by meddling allegations as Russia attempts to regain influence in the country.
Photograph: Vadim Ghirdă/AP
Student debts would be slashed by 20 per cent under the
latest part of the federal government's election pitch to ease cost of living
pressures for young Australians.
“The Hecs scheme was never meant to be a lifetime of debt,”
the prime minister told ABC radio.
Kylie Baker's journey on The Block came to an explosive
end last night with the hairdresser clashing with the show's judges, host Scott Cam, and
her own team of tradies. After she walked out, Kylie threatened to 'break the
f**king camera' if the crew kept filming her.
The Block badly needs an overhaul. The Bakers were broke so it was impossible for Kylie to achieve her original plans. If you don't win a room, you struggle to compete.
Is she a difficult woman? Yes, but she didn't get a fair go IMO.
The four-bedroom home in Marrickville, in Sydney's
Inner-West, sold for $2.91million - more than $1million above the
property's original price guide.
Spain's Queen Letizia, with
mud visible on the arm of her jacket after a crowd of enraged survivors
hurled mud and stones at the royal couple yesterday during a visit to the site
of the worst flood in living history.
Top business figures have ramped up calls for houses to
replace horses at Rosehill as punters on the weekend snubbed the track for
the running of Australia's second richest race. A crowd of only 10,493 attended
the $10 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill on Saturday.
NSW Premier Chris Minns signed a memorandum of understanding with the Australian Turf Club (ATC) which owns the racecourse, to develop the site into a 'mini city' on the site.
The Yamba Surf Club was told it would have to pay $2,000 to an Aboriginal corporation for the rights to hold surf events and a fundraising swim and a $500 service fee for each event to perform Welcome to Country ceremonies.
Surf club members had made the request after the Yaegl people were granted native title over land kn the area in 2015 and a stretch of ocean in 2027......
During a speech this summer in front of thousands of
supporters, Hungary's far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, detailed the
close connections he has nurtured with former President Donald Trump.
Nov 1 (Reuters) - Democrats are readying a rapid-fire
response to flood social media and the airwaves with calls for calm and
patience with vote-counting should Donald Trump try to prematurely claim
election victory, as he did in 2020, Harris campaign and party officials told
Reuters..........
Donald Trump’s allies are worried that Elon Musk’s supposed
canvassing efforts could cost them the election.
Nine Republican operatives and canvassers seemed alarmed
about issues with the super PAC, which has reportedly collected a plethora of
faked canvassing data, NBC News reported Friday........
Tucker Carlson: I was mauled by a demon! Exclusive clip from
Christianities documentary
Two police dogs were left to die by their handler in unconditioned pods during 30 degree heat. The dogs had been left unattended for some hours in the pods.
Police are saying the power had seized which caused the air conditioning to be cut off.
Some may believe it, but most will not.
An absolute disgrace.
This week, the Knesset passed two bills. One, banning UNRWA
from operating in East Jerusalem and in the occupied areas in Gaza and the West
Bank under Israeli control.
The second, banning Israeli officials from having any
interaction with UNRWA officials or employees, all the while referring to this
critical UN body as a “terrorist” organisation.
Israel’s Prime Minister, while standing on stage at the UN
general assembly, denounced the body as “contemptible”, a “house of darkness”
and a “swamp of antisemitic bile”...................
In a new study, researchers from the University of
Paris-Saclay have identified signs of breast cancer in a woman featured in Michelangelo’s
Sistine Chapel masterpiece, ‘The Flood.’
King Charles has instructed his Keeper of the Privy Purse,
the monarchy’s finance director, to sever his younger brother’s annual personal
allowance - believed to be in the region of £1 million a year - and no longer
pays for his seven-figure private security detail.
Labor Foreign Minister Penny Wong has purchased a grand 110-year-old home for $3.4million in one of Adelaide's most prestigious suburbs.
Ms Wong, 55, has been in a relationship with Ms Allouache, a public servant, since 2006, and the happy couple married in March.
In December 2011, Mr Allouache gave birth to
the couple's first child Alexandra who was conceived through IVF.
UK Cab driver Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool, and
uncle, McDonald's worker Faisal Malik, are on trial and pleading ‘not guilty’
to the murder of 10 year old Sara Sharif.
They fled to Pakistan after leaving her body at their home in Woking.......
.....Kabbout did not participate in the rape but encouraged his
friends Omar El-Sayed, 25, Mohammed Ali, 22, and Rami Katlan, 26 to do so........
Justice Angus Stewart has ruled that One Nation leader Pauline Hanson racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi through a tweet telling the fellow senator to "piss off back to Pakistan".
He ordered Senator Hanson to delete the tweet and to pay for Faruqi’s costs.
A very sad day for free speech.
First Nations communities are struggling to cope with an influx of people who are not known or recognised by the people they claim to belong to, a number of senior First Nations community leaders have warned. They say fake claims can cause serious consequences.
The 2021 Census reported a 25 per cent increase in the
Indigenous population in the five years since the previous census.
This compares with Census figures showing the total Australian population
increased by 8.6 per cent between 2016 and 2021.......
More than 1,200 large companies paid no tax in 2022/23
according to the ATO. This, the report
said, was due to various reasons, including companies making an accounting loss
or claiming tax offsets that reduced their tax bill to zero.......
JIUQUAN, China — A Chinese space ship carrying a three-person crew docked with its orbiting space station Tuesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space in competition with the United States, even as it looks for cooperation from other nations.
………This time, Trump has promised to appoint Musk as chief
government efficiency officer.
…..as a country, obviously, we need to live within our
means,” Musk said and he envisioned going through all government expenditures
“one item at a time, no exceptions, no special cases.”.............
