"I think [my parents] were in their 40s before they could afford to buy their first home. "It's not something you're meant to get — the two-car garage [house] when you're 22. "I think... that this generation and the one before think that's the way it has to be — well I'm afraid it's not that way." Senator Hinch said a lifetime of renting was common in many big cities around the world, where often people were unable to afford to buy property. "That's why in New York, when you watch programs like Seinfeld, there was such a rush to get hold of rent-controlled apartments," he said. "Because that's the way people lived their lives. They didn't expect to own a house."

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is understood to have told the Adani group chairman the issue of Native Title in Australia will soon be resolved.

Celebrated satirist and comedian John Clarke has died suddenly, aged 68.

Clarke was born in New Zealand but made his name as a comedian and political satirist in Australia after arriving in the 1970s.

 

WASHINGTON — For the first 10 weeks of President Trump’s administration, no adviser loomed larger in the public imagination than Stephen K. Bannon, the raw and rumpled former chairman of Breitbart News who considers himself a “virulently anti-establishment” revolutionary out to destroy the “administrative state.”

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A joint command centre made up of the forces of Russia, Iran and militias supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the US strike on a Syrian air base crosses "red lines" and it will respond to any new aggression and increase its support for its ally.

Peta Credlin admits the climate change policy under Julia Gillard's Labor government was never a carbon tax, but the coalition used that label to stir up brutal retail politics.

 

Senator Rand Paul said that Donald Trump should have asked for authorization from Congress before launching the Thursday missile strike against a military field in Syria.

 

Why Religions are instruments of Fascism

By Gus Leonisky, From the Leonisky Institute of Gentle Humanistic Transformation (LIGHT)

 

“Moral relativism” is the great rallying cry of Christians who fear an erosion of moral certainty in the secular age. If God is taken out of the picture, where do we anchor our sense of right and wrong?