Trail of destruction as Typhoon Man-yi lashes the Philippines
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Labor and Liberals will get double their public funding if ‘biased’ electoral rules are passed, Climate 200 says
ALP denies reforms rushed into parliament are designed to target Simon Holmes à Court and Clive Palmer
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Australia’s two major political parties will more than double their public funding at the 2028 federal election to reap a combined $140m under the government’s proposed changes to electoral laws, according to the organisation which funded successful teal independent candidates at the 2022 election.
Climate 200 has calculated the likely increase in the amount the Labor and Liberal parties could claim in public funding at the 2028 election, after the proposed new system is slated to take effect.
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Continue reading...African states making Russia/China deals has “implications”
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Mountain collapses in DR Congo revealing tonnes of copper
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‘I don’t wear a yarmulke anymore’: Netherlands’s Jews endure outbreak of antisemitism – The Jerusalem Post
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Bushfires force evacuations in Victoria’s west as wild weather menaces Australia’s south-east
Firefighters battle two out-of-control blazes as other communities brace for winds, storms and possible flash flooding
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Two out-of-control bushfires in Victoria have forced townships to evacuate and destroyed at least one home as parts of Australia’s east remain on alert for fires while being hit with wild winds and storms.
Firefighters were on Sunday working to contain the fires in Victoria’s west, with flash flooding and heavy rainfall possible in the state’s north-east, south-east New South Wales and north-east Tasmania.
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Continue reading...Marles announces closer military ties with Japan and US
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Warning for heavy rainfall, damaging winds and potential flash flooding in north-east Victoria
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for the north-east of Victoria, with forecasts of heavy rainfall and “damaging to locally destructive wind gusts”:
Heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding is forecast with areas of rain and thunderstorms for the northeast of Victoria from Sunday morning.
Six-hourly rainfall totals of 30 to 60mm are likely, with isolated totals up to 80mm possible. 24-hourly rainfall totals of 60 to 80mm are likely, with isolated falls of 100mm possible.
He’s Australia’s appointment. It says something about the importance of the United States that we have appointed a former prime minister.
That’s a sign of how seriously we take this relationship, which is a relationship between our peoples, based upon our common values.
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Abkhazia: Leader ready to quit if protesters exit parliament – DW (English)
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Rightwing settlers in Israel welcome ‘dream team’ of Trump and his hardline appointments
Palestinian groups shocked by US president-elect’s favouring of outspoken supporters of far-right activists in the region
Rightwing settlers and extremist nationalist Zionists in Israel have described top officials in Donald Trump’s new administration as a “dream team” which will offer a “unique and special opportunity” to expand Israel’s hold on occupied territory and permanently end any prospect of a Palestinian state.
Palestinian groups and leftwing NGOs in Israel have been shocked by Trump’s appointment of outspoken supporters of the projects of far-right Israeli activists and say the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been emboldened by Trump’s victory.
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At APEC 2024, Chinese leader Xi tells Biden he’s ‘ready to work’ with Trump
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Venezuela frees more than 100 arrested after disputed election result
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