Trump Turns Up the Heat: Australia Pressured to Boost Defence Spending or Face Trade Penalties
The Trump administration is putting mounting pressure on Australia to drastically increase its defence spending, aligning with NATO’s new benchmark of 5% of GDP. While NATO allies recently accepted this demand, Australia is resisting calls
By establishing a dedicated whistle-blowing body, Labor can prove its integrity credentials
Without the support of a whistleblower protection authority, too many whistleblowers remain silent, to the detriment of our democracy. Imagine finding something amiss at work: irregularities in project numbers as a public servant or discovering
The magic income that could win the biggest tax cut
Australia’s political stage could be set for a showdown this week as the government introduces its proposal to parliament to overhaul the stage 3 tax cuts. Both parties have claimed that their tax package does
Why it’s a good bet the RBA’s Melbourne Cup Day interest rate hike will be the last
Peter Martin – via The Conversation Australia just became the odd one out. At its meeting last week, the US Federal Reserve kept its official interest rate on hold. A week earlier, the European Central
Optus outage leaves 10 Million Australians without mobile or internet
Optus outage leaves 10 million without mobile or internet network: Boss’s silence makes alarming admission about the cause. Optus has suffered one of the biggest outages in Australian history. The Optus crash has affected 10
The ABC smear proposes X is now a ‘worthless’ platform
In a scathing attack on Twitter the news organization ABC has labelled the platform proposing X is now a ‘worthless’ platform. If the ABC smear proposes X is now a ‘worthless’ platform, how valid is
Lending for new homes remains at 20 year lows
“Despite a rise in the number of loans for the construction and purchase of new homes in September, they remain around their lowest levels for the past two decades,” stated Tom Devitt, Housing Industry Association
Mitsotakis pushes for EU action on Libya migration route and defence funding
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking after the conclusion of the EU Summit, called for urgent action to address a new irregular migration route emerging from Eastern Libya to Crete. “We will use every means available—carrot and stick—to ensure this route is not consolidated,” he stressed. Mitsotakis announced that the
Greek scientist’s groundbreaking research against cancer
Nikolaidis, who received his PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, relayed that their groundbreaking research is a tale of a molecule called “Heat-shock protein,” or Hsp70 (HSPA1A), found in the wrong place at the
SYRIZA changes strategy ahead of early election
Still reeling from a devastating showing in last weekend’s European Parliament election, leftist SYRIZA officials met on Wednesday to discuss strategy ahead of a second round of local authority polls and a looming snap general
The hard truths about Turkey’s continued denial and lies
The participation of the hundreds and thousands of people in the memorial events organized in Greece and abroad on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus, and the
Maria Kakali: The Mayor who got re-elected with 100% of the votes
While local leaders struggled to beat their competitors and some will have to go to a second round of elections next Sunday, one mayor managed to be elected with 100% of the votes. 32-year-old Maria
Greece turns a page
Greeks sent a clear and resounding message with their vote in Sunday’s European Parliament and local elections. They denounced the SYRIZA government and the PM personally as he shouldered the entire weight of the European
Elderly member of Greek minority found murdered on Turkish island of Imvros
An elderly Greek man was found dead and tortured on the Turkish island of Imvros that is home of a small Greek community. 86-year-old Zafiris Ignaris (Piyanari) was found on Monday night. He was tied
Trump Turns Up the Heat: Australia Pressured to Boost Defence Spending or Face Trade Penalties
The Trump administration is putting mounting pressure on Australia to drastically increase its defence spending, aligning with NATO’s new benchmark of 5% of GDP. While NATO allies recently accepted this demand, Australia is resisting calls to push its military budget beyond its current trajectory of 2.3% of GDP—well short of
Turkey: Erdogan describes Armenian Genocide as ‘Reasonable Relocation’
What Erdogan refers to as ‘relocation’ was actually the genocidal deportation of civilian populations — mainly women, children and the elderly — to the very interior of Asia Minor. These populations were not simply relocated
Populists shatter EU status Quo with strong showing
The preliminary results from the European Parliamentary elections are in. And just like the polls anticipated, the pro-European status quo has suffered a serious blow.
‘Clash of civilizations’ or crisis of civilization?
The outlook of current Western leaders suggests that humanity will be hard pressed to survive the 21st century Talk about a graphic display of soft power: Beijing this week hosted the Conference on Dialogue of
Are you ready for a worse dystopia than 1984?
It has been a lonely concern with the dire economic implications of robotics, but now Clarity Press has provided us with some company by publishing The Artificial Intelligence Contagion by David Barnhizer and Daniel Barnhizer.
Barnier: EU ready to respond to Turkish provocations
Michel Barnier, the European Union’s chief negotiator for Brexit, reiterated on Monday EU readiness to respond accordingly in case Turkey carries out illegal hydrocarbon drilling activities, noting that the EU stands clearly behind Cyprus. Barnier,
100 Years of Silence
Pontus (“sea” in Greek),is an historical Greek designation for a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Anatolia, Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its
