Anthony Albanese’s Labor party defeats the ruling Coalition, but may lack the numbers to form majority government
"I am humbled by this victory. And I am honoured to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia," he said.
"My fellow Australians, it says a lot about our great country that the son of a single mother who was on a disability pension, who grew up in public housing down the road in Camperdown, can stand before you tonight as Australia's prime minister."
Albanese laid out his incoming government's goals, including improving childcare and aged care, ending the "climate wars", developing renewable energy, and putting in place a national anti-corruption commission.
Matt Thistlethwaite set to win another term in Kingsford Smith, Labor to form a government
The Labor faithful have waited a long time – 15 years, to be precise, since an outright victory.
On Saturday evening around 5pm, as the doors opened on the Labor party campaign event at the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club, they set up to wait a few hours more.
As good as it gets’: The Labor faithful have waited a long time for this result
Liberal candidate forced to change profile after false Matraville incinerator claim
Scott Morrison sheds tears as he gives last prime minister’s speech at his Horizon church
A Melbourne woman who used wigs and sunglasses to hoodwink some of Australia's biggest banks into giving her more than $260,000 belonging to other customers has walked free from court, in a case likened to a "film script".
Melbourne woman sentenced to time served for 'brazen' identity theft bank scam
Crims hit in $500m AFP seizures linked to AN0M sting
$900K cash seized as NSW Police gang crackdown continues
A whopping $900,000 has been seized on the Central Coast and a man charged as gangbusting squad Taskforce Erebus continues to crack down on crime in the wake of three fatal shootings.
Despite Ukrainian Claims, Russian Navy Support Ship Appears Unharmed Maritime Executive: “Shocked, shocked!”
Putin, game master? Jacques Baud, YouTube. Important. One teeny addition: The breakaway republics did not have official standing in the Minsk negotiations. They were observers. However they did sign the pact, presumably to signal to their constituents that they were on board.
Life in the village Gilbert Doctorow. “Life is good.”
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Washington Post: “When a wildfire torethrough drought-stricken towns near Boulder, Colo., late last year, it reminded Americans that fire risk is changing. It didn’t matter that it was winter. It didn’t matter that many of the more than 1,000 homes and other structures lost sat in suburban subdivisions, not forested enclaves. The old rules no longer applied.
Who is rich in America?
We now know who is rich in America. And it’s not who you might have guessed.
A groundbreaking 2019 study by four economists, “Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century,” analyzed de-identified data of the complete universe of American taxpayers to determine who dominated the top 0.1 percent of earners.
The study didn’t tell us about the small number of well-known tech and shopping billionaires but instead about the more than 140,000 Americans who earn more than $1.58 million per year. The researchers found that the typical rich American is, in their words, the owner of a “regional business,” such as an “auto dealer” or a “beverage distributor.”
That is from Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (NYT), who covers some other interesting wealth/happiness topics as well
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