Australia has added $200 billion in spending (to date). Though politicians may furiously refuse to acknowledge it for now, this isn't on a scale that can be addressed by simply cutting back programs you don't like as a Government.
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For the first time in five months, Australia has not recorded a locally-transmitted case of covid-19 anywhere in the country.
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If one death from coronavirus is too many, as Trump claims, then he has a lot of explaining to do. His projection of a total 60,000 death toll was passed by 1st May, just two weeks after he made it. Analysis of US pandemic response by Ed Pilkington
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York last night and is making a whirlwind tour. He'll be as Columbia University this afternoon. These idiots at Columbia, they're casting . . . . .
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The near-total ban has made it a crime to perform the procedure at any stage of pregnancy, with doctors violating the law facing 10 to 99 years in prison.
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The Laptev Sea - the birthplace of sea ice - has yet to start freezing in late October. Ocean temps in the area recently climbed to more than 5C above average, which will have knock-on effects across the entire polar region, scientists say.
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A rant. No real debate. Just venting and a declaration of identity and self-confidence.
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Submitted
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Cinders
over a year ago
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Australian intelligence agencies have increased attention on alt-right figures in the wake of the Christchurch shooting, noting that such groups were responsible for every fatal terrorist attack in the US last year.
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Every day 80 people are shot to death in the US. The truth is, America is a society obsessed with guns and addicted to their repulsive but effective use as instruments of death. They rarely admit what their guns are designed to do, which is to kill.
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A series of polls have shown that pluralities of Democrats and millennials prefer socialism to capitalism. These surveys also make clear that respondents do not know what socialism is. Paul Roderick Gregory for The Hill, August 2018.
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