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More assault allegations surface against footballers in tiny town of Balmoral More women come forward with allegations of sexual assault in a small Victorian town, years after a rape victim was shunned by the town.

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Garden in bloom

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THANKS for this . . .

Never ever forget Melissa, Mark and Gilbert Hortman !

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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life

The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.

Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Mark Kelly: "We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified secretary of defense. I cannot think of a secretary of defense in the history of our country that is less qualified than Pete Hegseth. He should've been fired after Signal-gate."

Oh nothing, just Hegseth texting war plans on Signal chat

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Trump frees New York private equity executive who defrauded victims of $1.6B The news was announced on Thanksgiving by Trump’s “pardon czar”

Do you think they are getting it yet?
Do you think MAGA are making the connection that it wasn’t the immigrant after all.

Trump frees New York private equity executive who defrauded victims of $1.6B

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And it’s American legislators who perpetuate this unfair system.

We’ve tried and failed to Close the Gap for 15 years. Research shows what actually works The Family Wellbeing Program has decades of evidence backing it to help Indigenous people live better lives. Here’s how it works.

theconversation.com/weve-tried-a...

Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social
The UN's conclusion that Israel IS committing genocide in Gaza has obligations for Australia:
• sanction Israel
• cease arms sales to Israel
• ensure Australians aren't involved
• investigate & prosecute those who may be. Will your Govt do this? #auspol #GazaGenocide

Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles

Four people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”.

This is apparently what counts as a crime now

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What’s behind the high rate of suicide in Australia’s construction industry? The leading cause of death among construction workers is not falling from heights or electrocution – it is suicide. Some programs are helping, however.

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Easier for Labor to form government in Tasmania than Liberals after final election results The count in the Tasmanian election is over, with voters delivering a hung parliament with largely the same make-up as the last, albeit with some new characters.

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Progress on Closing the Gap is stagnant or going backwards. Here are 3 things to help fix it New Closing the Gap data show Australia is on track to meet just four targets, while another four are getting worse. It’s time for a different approach.

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Their old people sang of a place lost beneath the waves. Now it's found For years, researchers have been trying to find ancient artefacts sitting on the ocean floor. Now they have brought in Indigenous rangers to help.

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Someone prove this wrong.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Robert Pattinson: “Everyone keeps asking about how awful the THE ROVER filming conditions were. But it was kind of nice. The landscape is amazing and beautiful. The town was 9 hours out of Adelaide in the desert. We were living in converted shipping containers with doors.”

Time Out 2014

So Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years for trafficking girls to nobody?!?!

Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.

Have the Red Sox gone MAGA? Here’s what we know about that meet-and-greet with Trump. One day you’re telling yourself that at least the billionaire owner of your local newspaper hasn’t thrown in with Donald Trump. The next day a group of players from the baseball team he…

Red Sox find a way to lose even on an off day

How could they shake that man’s hand with what he’s doing….

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Vice President Harris and Douglas Emhoff watch fireworks at the White House on July 4, 2024.

This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better.

But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.

Mural in Roubaix France depicts Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame. #USA #FourthOfJuly

Immediately.

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

This is what a decent human being does. We were very lucky to have him as our president who did so much for Americans. I still can’t believe what we have now.

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper