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Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Striking Key Nuclear Sites

US enters war with Iran, bombing sites Trump says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Yep it’s not cheap! Feels like all cultural festivals are becoming expensive and more aimed at wealthy retirees

It Was Just An Accident: an amazing balance of light and shade, demonstrating how not to labour a point while making one precisely, and such a chilling soundscape…cool as well to see how the city turned out in droves for Sydney Film Fest 🎬

The Metro is great but just makes it more obvious how unreliable some of the other Sydney train lines are, and how incomprehensible it is that so much of those lines have no mobile internet 🤪🤯

PUNCHBOWL: “.. The shopping site will display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.”

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Cafe owners find Albanese’s ‘no weekend extras’ line hard to swallow Coffee shop and food outlet operators in Anthony Albanese’s inner west Sydney electorate say weekend and holiday surcharges are the only way they can stay open.

On the thin, and often non-existent, margins for small+independent hospitality businesses under higher rates www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Citing a Loss of Independence The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

The US letting go of leadership on press freedom would be a terrible outcome for the world, interesting to see who is enabling that… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

"There Will Be No Mercy": On the Frontlines of War in Ethiopia When Ethiopia’s government launched a brutal two-year war in Tigray, the region’s largest hospital was overrun with victims. The medical staff risked everything to treat the wounded—and believe the wo...

Stunning and shocking account of Ethiopia's Tigray war which possibly left over 600,000 dead in 2020-22 and hardly registered in the west: magazine.atavist.com/there-will-b...

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well?

GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available

WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article) The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

When an actually good musician’s only Sydney show is at Qudos Bank Arena.

Australia’s major security and economic partner has fundamentally changed course and yet all we’re talking about is the port of Darwin. Ok.

There are few things a certain type of Australian loves more than telling people off in public

So good how Bluesky just takes you straight to the linked website instead of trapping you in its platform

Cattle herd owned by luxury beef giant AACo died of apparent thirst A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.

A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.

Don’t want another Cyclone Alfred? This data says one’s coming Hot temperatures in the world’s oceans are making storms and cyclones more destructive. Australia is uniquely vulnerable.

Why warming oceans are a big problem for Australia www.afr.com/policy/energ...

ofc just another example of LKS/CK Hutch being caught between China and the west...

China Amplifies Rebuke of Li Ka-shing’s Panama Port Deal With BlackRock CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. shares plunged Friday after China’s top office on Hong Kong affairs reposted a sharp attack on the conglomerate’s decision to appease President Donald Trump by selling its s...

Interesting...China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office posted a commentary in state media criticising the company's recent port sale as a betrayal of China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US regulators, in unusual move, raise concerns about new private credit ETF The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission sounded the alarm about aspects of the first broad private credit market exchange-traded fund, in a letter posted on its website on Thursday, hours after the ETF began trading.

"The SEC raised concerns about the fund's liquidity and State Street's ability to comply with SEC valuation rules"

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Crown and Star’s next big problem? Pubs and clubs Just like stricken casino group Star, Crown Resorts says it is battling an uneven regulatory playing field with pubs and clubs. It’s gently pushing back.

Australia is home to 76 per cent of the world’s non-gaming venue poker machines, and 93 per cent of these machines are in pubs and clubs.

So why are they regulated differently to casinos? www.afr.com/chanticleer/...

new Jason Isbell is sounding really beautiful

Would love to know whether the australian government’s gambling warnings have ever gotten in the way of problem gambling

Always interesting which billionaires and business people pump $$ into shifting critical news articles about them onto the 2nd page of Google 😂

‘It’s the Wild West’: Why ASIC is worried about private credit Private credit firms are scrambling to manage problem loans, as the regulator sets its sights on lax governance.

Expired licences, unrealistic valuations to pump fees🤑, writing loans just to find someone “dumber” to refinance them...

“It’s the Wild West”: our deep dive out today on the turmoil in private credit and why it’s in the headlights of regulators👇

www.afr.com/property/com...

The secretive billionaire who has had Richard White’s back for 20 years WiseTech director and major shareholder Charles Gibbon has always been known as the master of the exit. How will he navigate WiseTech’s latest governance saga?

The secretive billionaire who has had Wisetech's Richard White’s back for 20 years

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White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country that Donald Trump has threatened to annex

Seems pretty significant for Australia www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

Rich Lister accused of encouraging ‘incredibly inappropriate’ behaviour Online casino entrepreneur Ed Craven has been accused of encouraging inappropriate behaviour towards a female escort on his live-streaming platform.

We previously reported on how Craven was accused of encouraging inappropriate behaviour towards a woman on his live-streaming platform Kick: www.afr.com/rich-list/ri...

Stake.com to quit Britain after Bonnie Blue video controversy The Melbourne-run, Caribbean-registered online casino giant is the main sponsor of English Premier League club Everton but will leave the country next month.

Interesting development: billionaire Ed Craven's gambling company Stake, the key sponsor of English Premier League football club Everton, to exit the UK over social media videos by an adult content creator www.afr.com/companies/ga...

Their deserter piece, for example, translated SO well to audio

The way the nyt audio app has recordings of long reads from a variety of magazines is really useful, audio is a great format for those pieces