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Anthony Albanese, Pay attention to my truth. As the grandson of a celebrity chef, Clarissa Fox, and of two distinguished theologians, Professor AC Fox and the Right Reverend JR Blanchard, as a man who was a Registered Midwife for 30 years, as the creator of 4 head-of-government-significant art displays in the fourth biggest country in the world crucial to Australia’s future and as a man in poverty and denied the aged pension for a year because of two unaccountable female bullies and one cold emotionally incompetent man at Services Australia, I say to you: It is time that you recognise...

Leaving the port of Darwin in Chinese hands would bestow on Beijing a golden opportunity to make mischief for Australia and its allies. Hooroo, China! Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is evidently making good on an election campaign pledge to reclaim the Port of Darwin, a harbor in Australia’s Northern Territory, from Chinese control. The Chinese firm Landbridge has operated the port since 2015 under a 99-year lease. Last week the American private-equity firm Cerberus voiced interest in leasing the port from Canberra. Albanese cited national security grounds for breaking the lease. Why Darwin Matters.. Why does Chinese control over...

Last year, on May 22nd, because of three weeks of stupidity and bullying from most but not all of the staff at the Services Australia office in Foostcray, I had a nervous breakdown in the office and collapsed to the floor howling in agony. The Services Australia response to my distress was to shut me out. I remain shut out to this day. As a result I have not received the Aged Pension which I need to survive and maintain a home in Australia. When I complained about this to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office, I was fobbed off. So,...

U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the G7 leaders’ summit in Canada next month, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed in a briefing. Trump will be in Canada from June 15 to 17. More details of his visit will be announced shortly, Leavitt said. On May 6, during Mark Carney’s meeting with Trump at the White House, the prime minister noted that the two leaders “look forward to meeting next month at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis.” The 51st G7 summit will be held from June 15 to 17 in Kananaskis, Alta., attended by the core members of the...

Newly re-elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now claiming that his government is a symbol for what he is calling "progressive patriotism". I will now compare some claims made for this way of thinking with the reality of Socialist Left governments. “Albanese begins second term with a new slogan.” Albanese and his party, the ALP, are much better at sloganising than they are at governing. "Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pledging to strengthen Australia with a second-term agenda that eases division ......." Albanese won the recent election with a brilliantly effective but viciously unfair negative campaign against his conservative...

Abbott’s statement: “(It is) a significant achievement (by Anthony Albanese) to be the first Prime Minister since John Howard and the first Labor Prime minister since Bob Hawke to be returned to government ……… What I really do want to say though is to reassure people who voted Liberal (in Australia that means conservative because the biggest conservative party is called the Liberal Party) today and people who normally vote for the coalition not to lose heart. At our best we are the freedom party. We are the tradition party. We are the patriot party and at our best I...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Early vote counting in Australia’s general election Saturday suggested the government was likely to be returned for a second term. The Australian Electoral Commission’s early projections gave the ruling center-left Labor Party 70 seats and the conservative opposition coalition 24 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, the lower chamber where parties need a majority to form governments. Unaligned minor parties and independent candidates appeared likely to win 13 seats. Senior government minister Jim Chalmers said the early results pointed to volatility and different contests across the nation. Opposition Sen. James McGrath expected the result would...

Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as prime minister on Saturday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters' concerns about the influence of U.S. President Donald Trump. Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative Liberal party, conceded defeat and the loss of his own seat - echoing the fate of Canada's conservatives and their leader whose election losses days earlier were also attributed to a Trump backlash. [snip] Albanese would be the first Australian prime minister to win a consecutive term in two decades. He said Australians had voted for fairness and "the strength...

Thousands gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Friday for Anzac Day, a public holiday commemorating military service members who fought and died during wartime. Anzac Day originally marked the nations' role in an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during World War One, which resulted in 130,000 deaths on both sides of the conflict. In a key episode on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) took part in an ill-fated amphibious invasion by British Empire forces on the area's narrow beaches. "It is now a century...

To day I have made this human rights complaint against Anthony Albanese to the United Nations: I, Geoff Fox, hold the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese responsible for the denial of the Aged Care pension to me and the violation of my human rights under Articles 1 (denial of a spirit of brotherhood), 5 (no cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment ), 21 (denial of the right to equal access to public service in Australia), 22 (denial of indispensable economic rights) and 25 (denial of the right to security in old age).

Typical Haaretz Haaretzism: pro Arab supremacy Islamic racism. Letting horrific comments on too. Most comments on the Dec/5/24 antisemtic attack on Haredi (who are even non zionist BTW, but that's besides the point) synagogue in Australia try to justify the horrendous crime. This, Arab apparently, for example is: Adding quotation mark on "m'antisemitism' but shamelessly equates the Holocaust with clashes, battle in Gaza where its regime makes sure civilians die (still, it's historically lowest, compared to other wars). If anything, this and other hortific hate crimes and the sickening rationalization prove that anti-Jewish hatred is in fact the very basis...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the Labor government of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday, saying its anti-Israel policies had led directly to an arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne. As Breitbart News reported, the synagogue was set ablaze during weekday prayers on Friday morning — with some worshippers inside the sanctuary. Breitbart News noted: Local media outlets confirmed people were inside at the time for morning prayers and they had reported seeing firebombs thrown by masked assailants. One person was injured and the fire caused extensive damage. Synagogue board member Benjamin Klein told The Age newspaper...

Worshippers were forced to flee a Melbourne synagogue early Friday morning after it was set ablaze in an arson attack Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony called “act of hate.” Sixty-plus firefighters were called to Adass Israel synagogue in the Victorian state capital just after 04:00 local time on Friday (17:00 GMT Thursday), finding the building fully ablaze when they arrived. Local media outlets confirmed people were inside at the time for morning prayers and they had reported seeing firebombs thrown by masked assailants. One person was injured and the fire caused extensive damage.

Australia’s ambassador to the US has deleted comments he had previously made online about Donald Trump, criticising him as “destructive” and a “traitor to the West”. Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister, said his remarks did not reflect the view of the government and he was “looking forward” to working with the president-elect. Dr Rudd, who scrubbed his social media days before Mr Trump’s election victory, wanted to “eliminate the possibility of such comments being misconstrued,” his office said. The ambassador became the latest in a list of high-profile figures to distance themselves from disparaging remarks made about Mr Trump...

When Fatima Payman crossed the Senate floor to vote against her government she knew it would come with consequences. The Australian Labor party has strict penalties for those who undermine its collective positions, and acts of defiance can lead to expulsion - a precedent with a 130-year history. The last time one of its politicians tested the waters while in power was before Ms Payman was born. But last Tuesday, the 29-year-old did just that - joining the Green party and independent senators to support a motion on Palestinian statehood. Officially the Australian government supports a two-state solution, but did...

Two years ago today I used poet Stuart Piggott's image, "..... new from old treasure / is this year's miraculous / rebirth in the harvest." as a prompt to make this appeal to conservative Church going Australian Prime Minister of the time, Scott Morrison: "Now, as the society I live in is destroying its own humanity with lockdowns of itself, I look to a deeply Christian Prime Minister to stand up strong against ignorant tyranny for freedom's sake." ScoMo was no Trump, DeSantis or Greg Abbott but he tried to hold back the anti-freedom excesses of state governments which gave...

Michelle Obama was photographed looking less than enthused as she accompanied her husband on a speaking tour in Australia Monday. The former first couple touched down in Sydney on a private jet Sunday night before eating lunch at an upscale harborside seafood restaurant Monday, The Daily Mail reported. As Barack Obama, 61, appeared to revel at working a crowd of adoring Aussie onlookers, shutterbugs caught Michelle, 59, crossing her arms with a sourpuss expression on full display following the couple’s private meal at the Bathers’ Pavilion, which offers a six-course tasting menu with wine pairings for $200. The Obamas also...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has waded into the US abortion furore saying the decision which allows the practice to be banned was a 'setback for women' that 'caused enormous distress'. Mr Albanese, who was flying to Spain to attend a NATO conference, told ABC radio the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Roe v Wade ruling guaranteeing abortion freedoms transgressed women's rights. 'Well, people are entitled to their own views, but not to impose their views on women for whom this is a deeply personal decision,' Mr Albanese said. 'That is, in my view, one for an individual woman...

Australians today ejected the rightwing coalition government that has held power for almost a decade. As counting continued after yesterday’s general election, Labor leader Anthony Albanese was expected to form a minority government. Scott Morrison, the prime minister, conceded defeat in a televised address to party supporters late on Saturday and said he would be resigning as leader of his defeated Liberal Party. He said: “I’ve always believed in Australians and their judgement, and I’ve always been prepared to accept their verdicts. And tonight they have delivered their verdict and I congratulate Anthony Albanese in the Labor Party.”

For the 151 House seats Labor leading or elected 71, the Liberal-National Coalition 49 and Others 9- 740 am Eastern US Time The Labor Party is projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives and Anthony Albanese is projected to be Australia's next Prime Minister.