Prof Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and public policy analyst. Columbia University:
"AUKUS is designed to bill the Australian taxpayers and enrich the US military industrial complex. You have been had Australia, sorry to tell you. And your politicians should own up it."
November 19 is International Men's Day.
The UN doesn't observe International Men's Day or any other day for boys/men.
The UN observes 13 days for girls/women and several days for languages, sports, animals, and outer space.
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With Macron they call it "horse play" but if it was a prominent woman being shoved or hit in her face by her partner it would be labelled "domestic violence", she would be a victim, he would be the disgraved perpetrator. Such is the hypocrisy of our time.
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Peter Dutton wants to cut 41,000 staff from the Australian Public Service. That’s the equivalent of the entire Services Australia workforce. Staff at Services Australia administer important payments for things like Medicare | Youth Allowance & the Age Pension #auspol 🧵
Tonight the iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai - the world’s tallest building - was lit up
with the Australian Flag in recognition of #AustraliaDay.
A wonderful tribute to our bilateral relationship and a great way to kick off the 50th anniversary year of our diplomatic relationship with the UAE.