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Killing the Hamas leaders in Qatar would clear the way to ending the Gaza conflict and the return of Israeli hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, just days after the Jewish state bombed the militant group’s top members in Doha.

Hamas has said that its leadership was not taken out by the Israeli attack, which it described as an attempt to assassinate negotiators working on a potential settlement to the Gaza conflict.

Strong demand in states most dependent on coal is keeping Australian rooftop solar installations on target, even as large scale wind and solar proves hard to build.

In June, I wrote a piece which suggested that when Trump sent in the National Guard to Los Angeles, he was hoping that violence would flare up, so that he could use it much as the nazis used the Reichstag Fire in February, 1933. The Nazis used this as an excuse to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree to suspend the right to assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other constitutional protections, including all restraints on police investigations. The decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, to dissolve political organisations, and to confiscate private property.

Leading Sydney auctioneer and agent Tom Panos has issued a warning for Australian home buyers. Panos believes that Australia’s property market is the hottest it has been since the Covid boom and will only get worse once the Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers comes into effect next month. In his weekly

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6:00 – Polls have just closed in the Kiama by-election. This state seat is on the south coast of New South Wales, and was vacated by Gareth Ward shortly before he was expected to be expelled from the Legislative Assembly after his conviction and expected sentencing.

Results should start to come in before 7pm tonight. I’ll be live-blogging here. In the meantime, you can read my guide to the by-election here.

State lying is not an accident of politics: it is its mother tongue.

Brutal dictatorship attacks the body, but insidious tyranny targets the mind and the means of survival. One can escape the blows; one does not always recover from a lifetime spent pretending to believe in them. 

The Empire of Lies: A Success Story

by Azzedine Kaamil Aït-Ameur

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius requested 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) more over the next two years for military support to Ukraine than was approved by the German government, German newspaper Bild reported on Friday.

Due to this disagreement, planned contracts with the Ukrainian defense industry must now be suspended, and support measures for the Ukrainian armed forces will have to be partially canceled or reduced, the report said.

The Albanese Government’s proposed changes to Freedom of Information laws will deny access to any document of the government that involves controversy. FOI guru Rex Patrick explains.

Just how fearless is advice that the author fears the public will see?

No controversy, please. We are the Aussie Government!

by Rex Patrick

In reshaping the world for prosperity, humanity has undermined the very foundations of progress.

So warns the latest study from the World Bank Group, entitled Reboot development: the economics of a liveable planet.

There is a lot of opinions about “Russia invading Poland with drones”…

Uncertainty surrounds the future of an $8 billion wind project in Victoria, with staff let go and operators unlikely to bid for government funding.

One of the world's leading climate experts puts the case for strong targets: "Unless we change tack ....