The climate conference next year will determine cause for any serious, immediate optimism, Attenborough says.

While Stephen Smith was Australia’s foreign minister during the Rudd government from 2007 to 2010 he instructed his department to banish the phrase “punching above our weight” from speech notes and official correspondence.

A billion-dollar deal for the Morrison government to buy more than 50 million doses of the University of Queensland’s potential coronavirus vaccine has been abruptly terminated after several trial participants returned false positive HIV test results.

Pacific leaders have condemned Australia’s Paris climate target as “one of the weakest”, urging Canberra to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and abandon its Kyoto carryover credits.

At first I though this was a spider attacking a caterpillar. But I counted the legs. This fellow catching a caterpillar is definitively an Assassin bug: 6 legs and two long antennas. The caterpillar skin is toxic, mostly on the top. The Assassin bug turned the prey around and pierced to the juicy bits on the belly. The caterpillar fought back by wriggling violently. Embraced in a tussle, they lost their footing and fell into the litter below where the fight continued. This is nature...

 

 

Dave Chappelle has been one of the biggest, loudest and and most acerbic comedian, yet he is wrong...

No one challenged NATO rules during the Cold War except France. But in view of its excesses since 2001, each of its members (except Turkey) is thinking of getting out of it, including the United States for whom it is nevertheless indispensable. The internal report on what it should become illustrates its contradictions and the difficulty of reforming it.

 

NATO Puzzle

by Thierry Meyssan

 

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | PARIS (FRANCE) | 8 DECEMBER 2020

Coalition Spin Kings: Expecting accountability in aged care is mere tilting at windmills

 

I had to get my well-worn copy of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” from the top shelf and mock it up.

 

 

Wide-ranging changes to industrial relations laws around casual work have sparked concerns among union groups, with fears precarious workers will be further disadvantaged.

When the Roald Dahl's family recently apologised for anti-Semitic comments made by the best-selling author, who died in 1990, it created a stir…

A fair and equal vote for all is what we are after…