Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the current voluntary regime is ’too hit and miss’ and there’s no way of knowing if the right mergers are being scrutinised.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers wants the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to examine every...
Almost 173,000 immigrants came to the country last year, an number the government says is unsustainable and is putting pressure on infrastructure.
The New Zealand government has announced immediate changes to the Accredited Employer Worker Visa (AEWV) scheme after the...
Bloomberg reported late last week that Pentagon officials have begun privately referring to the multilateral cooperation between the US, Australia, Japan, and the Philippines as the “Squad”. This term is meant to signal that it’s a more active “Quad”...
There appears to be a distinct culture of entitlement amongst some of the senior ministers in the Australian government.
Commentary
When he was prime minister, the Liberal Party’s John Howard regularly warned colleagues against hubris. I suspect that he was reminding...
Recipients of NDIS make up an overwhelming 86 percent of the growth to the total number of people on welfare since 2018.
Australia’s reliance on welfare payments has reached new heights, with the number of recipients now over 2.1 million,...
There’s been a lot of speculation about why Russia just put Zelensky, new National Security and Defense Council chief Litvinenko, former President Poroshenko, and two former financial officials on its Interior Ministry’s wanted list, among the others that have...
Former Russian President and incumbent Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev listed three benefits on Telegram that his country expects to derive from next month’s Swiss “peace talks”. Russia isn’t invited to the meeting, which will only...
Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The recent stringent Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) carbon emissions standards for internal combustion engines defy economic realities. The EPA would have us believe that coercing folks to buy electric vehicles (EV) will somehow...
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Social media posts urging people not to take ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 have been taken down by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The FDA removed posts from X...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, plans to build a third chip factory in Arizona after receiving $6.6 billion in grants and $5 billion in loans through US government subsidies. This is part of...
