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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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A few thoughts as Australia’s 60-year run of luck, runs out
November 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
A few thoughts as Australia’s 60-year run of luck, runs out
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Jobkeeper :
More than 100 religious organisations qualified for the emergency wage subsidy despite seeing little financial impact from last year's COVID-19 economic shock.
Figures from ATO show about 3,500 religious entities received a total of $627 million in JobKeeper payments.
More than 100 religious organisations qualified for the emergency wage subsidy despite seeing little financial impact from last year's COVID-19 economic shock.
Figures from ATO show about 3,500 religious entities received a total of $627 million in JobKeeper payments.
Calls for religious organisations to repay JobKeeper millions
Dozens of Australia's biggest churches and other religious institutions pocketed millions of dollars in JobKeeper payments while remaining in the black during 2020, research shows.
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Jobkeeper :
More than 100 religious organisations qualified for the emergency wage subsidy despite seeing little financial impact from last year's COVID-19 economic shock.
Figures from ATO show about 3,500 religious entities received a total of $627 million in JobKeeper payments.
More than 100 religious organisations qualified for the emergency wage subsidy despite seeing little financial impact from last year's COVID-19 economic shock.
Figures from ATO show about 3,500 religious entities received a total of $627 million in JobKeeper payments.
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A question for Bishop Bird, of Ballarat, who instructed his lawyers to go all the way to High Court to avoid paying damages to a complainant of child sexual abuse on basis that priests aren’t technically employed by his diocese:
Did your priests accept JobKeeper during COVID pandemic?
If so, why?
Did your priests accept JobKeeper during COVID pandemic?
If so, why?
November 17, 2024 at 5:24 AM
A question for Bishop Bird, of Ballarat, who instructed his lawyers to go all the way to High Court to avoid paying damages to a complainant of child sexual abuse on basis that priests aren’t technically employed by his diocese:
Did your priests accept JobKeeper during COVID pandemic?
If so, why?
Did your priests accept JobKeeper during COVID pandemic?
If so, why?
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🚨 While Australians want cost of living support, the political parties are proposing to fast track a windfall for themselves & lock out competition. But they are not in as big a hurry to stop lies in political advertising! #auspol #integrity
Labor and Liberals will get double their public funding if ‘biased’ electoral rules are passed, Climate 200 says
Labor and Liberals will get double their public funding if ‘biased’ electoral rules are passed, Climate 200 says
ALP denies reforms rushed into parliament are designed to target Simon Holmes à Court and Clive Palmer
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Australia’s two major political parties will more than double their public funding at the 2028 federal election to reap a combined $140m under the government’s proposed changes to electoral laws, according to the organisation which funded successful teal independent candidates at the 2022 election.
Climate 200 has calculated the likely increase in the amount the Labor and Liberal parties could claim in public funding at the 2028 election, after the proposed new system is slated to take effect.
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November 17, 2024 at 8:43 AM
🚨 While Australians want cost of living support, the political parties are proposing to fast track a windfall for themselves & lock out competition. But they are not in as big a hurry to stop lies in political advertising! #auspol #integrity
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@simonahac.bsky.social sat down with @peterfitz1.bsky.social to discuss how Trump’s win will embolden the far right in Australia, and why supporting #CommunityIndependents is the best way to fight back.
🗞️ @ Sydney Morning Herald
🗞️ @ Sydney Morning Herald
November 13, 2024 at 10:11 AM
@simonahac.bsky.social sat down with @peterfitz1.bsky.social to discuss how Trump’s win will embolden the far right in Australia, and why supporting #CommunityIndependents is the best way to fight back.
🗞️ @ Sydney Morning Herald
🗞️ @ Sydney Morning Herald
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If all you really want is Tweetdeck c. 2016 back with all your lists and columns and consequent false sense of control, then you want deck.blue
November 13, 2024 at 3:53 PM
If all you really want is Tweetdeck c. 2016 back with all your lists and columns and consequent false sense of control, then you want deck.blue
November 14, 2024 at 4:18 AM