

9News is right leaning and has always sanewashed everything to do with Trump, along with the rest of the Australian mainstream media (which is all right wing, even the supposedly lefty ABC).
9News is right leaning and has always sanewashed everything to do with Trump, along with the rest of the Australian mainstream media (which is all right wing, even the supposedly lefty ABC).
I had a colonoscopy years ago when I was engaged to my now-wife, and when I woke up from the anaesthesia I just babbled about how much I loved her. At no point did I come remotely close to doing a Nazi salute.
Why the hell does the US get to decide what we do with our tanks?
Ptoughneigh
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
This makes it sound like the result arrived extraordinarily quickly (which, in fairness, it was a very fast call) but elections here are decided entirely in the eastern states. It was obvious that the swing was on and Labor were clear favourites to win before polls in WA even closed.
By far the best news of the night though was that Temu Trump (Peter Dutton) lost his own seat just like Pierre Polievre in Canada several days ago. That makes him the first opposition leader to lose their own seat at a federal election.
I’ve been asking myself the same question lately. If Maccas is nearly the same price as an actually good burger, why not just get the good burger?
We used to have a “baby bonus” payment about 20 years ago in Australia. It made very little difference to birth rates and was derisively called the “plasma TV bonus”. Turns out that even 20 years ago a small lump sum of cash wasn’t enough to persuade people to sign up for a lifetime of expenses and responsibilities by having more kids. It was just a handout to middle class families that could already afford to have kids, which is why it was scrapped.
China is our largest trading partner and our government has made a significant effort to rebuild relations with China since the previous government trashed the relationship. I don’t have a source handy, but I recall seeing a poll that found that at least a plurality of Australians would not support joining a hypothetical war against China over Taiwan, and I think that was before Trump took over again. Australian public opinion of the US is in freefall like in so many other countries, so I can’t imagine support for going to war with China would have increased in the last 5 months.