New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will lead a delegation of 29 people to China next week to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping and other high-ranking Chinese officials. “Since becoming Prime Minister, I’ve prioritised working in partnership with business to boost export growth in order to grow our economy,” Hipkins said. “China represents nearly a…
New Zealand PM to Meet CCP Leader Xi Jinping Amid Recession
June 20, 2023
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RBA Says Jobs Market Too Tight to Control Inflation
June 20, 2023
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The jobs market is too strong, and the unemployment rate too low for the Reserve Bank to stamp down inflation. RBA deputy governor Michele Bullock says an unemployment rate of around 4.5 percent is roughly the lowest possible level that’s consistent with the RBA’s two-to-three per cent inflation target. The jobless rate has been stuck…
Criminal Support Program Fails to Reduce Reoffending
A support program offering housing, drug, mental health and other support services to high-risk criminals has failed to reduce reoffending, and those taking part are actually more likely to end up back in jail. The Local Co-ordinated Multiagency (LCM) offender management was launched in 2017 to increase access to various services with the aim of…
Penalties Sharpened for Possessing a Knife in Public
Anyone wielding a knife in public in New South Wales (NSW) risks an $11,000 fine as the government promises to crack down on street violence. Police Minister Yasmin Catley says a two-day operation targeting knife-related crime last month led to 172 people being charged with 565 offences and 294 knives seized. She said the operation…
Marxist Radical a Key Actor Behind ‘The Voice’
June 20, 2023
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A prominent Indigenous activist and advocate of changing Australia’s Constitution has been revealed to have praised communism’s influence in the “struggle” of Aboriginal people, talked about punishing politicians and pushed for Australians to pay reparations to Indigenous Australians. Thomas Mayo (or Mayor) is the national Indigenous officer of the Maritime Union of Australia. He was…
Greenwash Claim as Miner Pledges to Stay Away From Town
Environmentalists have dismissed a pledge by alumina giant Alcoa not to mine near a tourist town home to ancient Jarrah forests. The company says it will not seek to mine within three kilometres of Dwellingup, in the Darling Range southeast of Perth, committing to an exclusion zone across its bauxite mining lease more than four…
Victorian Premier Refuses to Apologise to Female MP for ‘Halfwit’ Jibe
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is refusing to apologise for labelling a female Liberal MP a “halfwit grub”, declaring he was defending a Labor colleague. Opposition women’s spokeswoman and Eildon MP Cindy McLeish says the premier made the remark in state parliament on Tuesday before withdrawing it. “Those comments were deeply offensive to me, but I…
7 in 10 Working Australians Do Not Know Their Credit Score
Over 14 million Australians may have no knowledge of their credit score despite the importance of the financial statistic in people’s daily lives. According to a survey by the financial comparison company Finder, seven in ten respondents did not know their credit score. Further, over 40 percent of those surveyed had never checked their credit…
How Marxism Broke Down the Nuclear Family
June 19, 2023
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Commentary Marriage is an institution uniquely apt for the rearing and nourishing of children, an open-ended task calling parents to assume an attitude of love and commitment toward children. Conversely, divorce undermines the family unit and deprives children of an intact biological family. Karl Marx recommended the abolition of marriage in his Communist Manifesto, stating…
Study Reveals 33 Percent of Health Foods Contain Incorrect Information
June 19, 2023
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Many sports foods—powders, bars and snacks, and ready-made shakes—sold in grocery stores, pharmacies, and health food stores are marketed as being healthy food for an active lifestyle, but they may not be as nutritious as they claim to be, with approximately a third being mislabelled, an in-depth investigation by Australian researchers has found. PhD candidate…
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