Fourth Chime
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Concerned Aussie watching the world going to pot.
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A question for the United Nations
There are wars, and rumours of more wars, but almost total neglect of what should be the most significant global battle: keeping the planet habitable. It is now a most urgent challenge, with the coincident effect of multiple and converging risks that pose existential threats to humanity this century. Julian Cribb, a former CSIRO science communicator, has scoured the available
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September 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The paint on the Mexico side of the wall is so much prettier
August 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The paint on the Mexico side of the wall is so much prettier
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever.
Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”
See where this is going?
Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”
See where this is going?
August 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever.
Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”
See where this is going?
Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.”
See where this is going?
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Lutnick on Rand Paul calling the Intel nationalism "a step toward socialism": "That is not socialism. I'll tell you what that is. That's the best businessman in the United States of America, in the Oval Office, doing fair things for us, the American taxpayers."
August 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Lutnick on Rand Paul calling the Intel nationalism "a step toward socialism": "That is not socialism. I'll tell you what that is. That's the best businessman in the United States of America, in the Oval Office, doing fair things for us, the American taxpayers."
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"My photographer got hit twice by less than lethal rounds and he's got blood on one of his arms and we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic."
July 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"My photographer got hit twice by less than lethal rounds and he's got blood on one of his arms and we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic."
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The Coalition and the real hate media
As editor of the British tabloid rag The Sun in the 1980s, Kelvin MacKenzie had a favourite description of how to make the lives of public figures unpleasant – his journalists were instructed to “stic...
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May 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Stop the votes
Surely this is the end, the rock bottom drunks talk about at their first meeting. For more than 20 years, the Liberal Party has staggered further and further from the political centre, stopping occasi...
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May 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The Coalition’s troubled relationship with women www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The Coalition’s troubled relationship with women
The Coalition is struggling to win support from women – a problem raised in a review of its last election defeat that has only grown worse under Peter Dutton’s leadership.
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April 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
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We elected a man everyone who matters in this country knew was an idiot. The bulk of them refused to say so openly and directly — either because they thought he could do something for them or because there are political and journalistic norms against speaking that way.
April 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We elected a man everyone who matters in this country knew was an idiot. The bulk of them refused to say so openly and directly — either because they thought he could do something for them or because there are political and journalistic norms against speaking that way.
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The election campaign begins in earnest
Jim Chalmers insisted in the budget lock-up news conference that his fourth effort was primarily about economics and not politics, a claim that didn’t really convince his audience. As Paul Keating was...
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March 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Four leaders unwriting the rule of law
One of the most disturbing recent global trends has been the attempts by governments to attack the independence of the judiciary.
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March 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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March 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
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Pete Hegseth: “Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.”🤦♂️
Pete Hegseth: “Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.”🤦♂️
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Pete Hegseth: “Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.”🤦♂️
Pete Hegseth: “Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.”🤦♂️
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“I know what John Howard and I would do,” a political veteran tells Paul Bongiorno. “We’d deliver the scheduled March budget, note Peter Dutton’s formal reply, dismiss it as the worst effort since Federation and immediately call the poll.”
Pre-election budget deficit the order of the day
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March 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“I know what John Howard and I would do,” a political veteran tells Paul Bongiorno. “We’d deliver the scheduled March budget, note Peter Dutton’s formal reply, dismiss it as the worst effort since Federation and immediately call the poll.”
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JD Vance is now officially the most disliked new Vice President in American history, according to data.
J.D. Vance Is the Most Disliked New Vice President in History | Washington Monthly
The public isn’t taking to J.D. Vance's obnoxious style, which bodes well for politics in the post-Trump era.
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March 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
JD Vance is now officially the most disliked new Vice President in American history, according to data.
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Didnt everyone want a strange, ketamine fueled South African Nazi billionaire businessman to take over our country ?
March 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Didnt everyone want a strange, ketamine fueled South African Nazi billionaire businessman to take over our country ?
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Cyclone Alfred and the real cost of Dutton’s public service cuts
The involvement of the public service in the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred underscores the reality of the Coalition’s promise to cut 36,000 people from government departments.
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March 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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"Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back
March 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back
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Albanese tracks storms in Queensland and Washington
Federal cabinet concluded its wide-ranging discussion on the government’s electoral prospects on Monday with the consensus that the most opportune time for the prime minister to call the election woul...
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March 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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America’s tsar-link www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
America’s tsar-link
Clearly, it is time for all nations that value democracy to stand up strongly in support of Ukraine and against United States President Donald Trump. Europe needs to call him out and to give NATO some...
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March 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Dutton looks to Oval Office for inspiration
The Coalition’s newly installed leader in the Senate, Michaelia Cash, has hitched the Dutton wagon to Trump’s horse. Speaking on the Nine Network’s Today show, an effusive Cash was clearly in awe of t...
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February 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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