A U.S. official said Tuesday the suspension is intended to be temporary and does not apply to applicants who already had scheduled their visa interviews.
Day: May 28, 2025
“The retaining wall isn’t connected to my house but is close enough for this to be terrifying.”
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— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) May 28, 2025
If diplomacy is theater, Justin Trudeau walked onstage in costume to greet royalty.
The leaders’ awkward shadow ministry reveal an early test as they seek to put damaging but short-lived split behind them
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After what can only be described as an awful start to a new opposition term, Sussan Ley and David Littleproud stood side by side on Wednesday to name a new Coalition frontbench.
Like an estranged couple who get back together after admitting what they really think of each other, the two leaders awkwardly sought to put their damaging but short-lived split behind them.
Productivity Commission finds drop off from Covid ‘bubble’ was driven by people working more hours as lockdowns eased
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The national shift to working from home is not to blame for the sharp drop in productivity in the wake of the pandemic, the Productivity Commission says.
A new report by the PC examines causes for the brief productivity “bubble” during the height of the Covid-19 health crisis and its subsequent collapse, finding that the whiplash was driven in large part by the sharp drop in working hours through the lockdowns, followed by a surge in hours worked as the economy roared back to life.
Former Labor senator also says child removals are a way to ‘eradicate a people from the landscape’
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Former Labor senator Patrick Dodson has condemned the country’s Aboriginal youth incarceration rates and child removals as an ongoing genocide against First Peoples and an “embarrassing sore” on the nation.
“It’s an assault on the Aboriginal people. I don’t say that lightly [but] if you want to eradicate a people from the landscape, you start taking them away, you start destroying the landscape of their cultural heritage, you attack their children or remove their children,” Dodson said.
Forty-year extension of North West Shelf gas project granted by environment minister, Murray Watt, will result in huge greenhouse gas emissions, putting the already degraded Indigenous rock art at risk
We don’t know all the evidence that the new environment minister, Murray Watt, had before him when he decided to approve a 40-year life extension to one of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel developments so that it could run until 2070.
But we do know this. The decision largely turned on whether the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas (LNG) development on the Pilbara’s Burrup Hub can coexist for decades into the future with an incredible collection of ancient Murujuga rock art, some of it nearly 50,000 years old and unlike anything else on the planet.
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A French court found a retired surgeon guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of patients, many of them children, in a trial that has shaken France.
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