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The road to the EFF’s National People’s Assembly has been characterised by calls for its president Julius Malema to take a back seat, expulsions, a powerful and emerging women’s caucus, tussle for positions, and questions about longtime leader Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s future in the party. Source link
• Presidency clarifies derivation-based VAT model amid northern govs’ opposition• Reps to probe N121.67tr federal, state loans, borrowing since 1999• Okunlola warns of rising debt, calls for oversight on loan utilisation Amid controversy over President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills submitted to the National Assembly, the Senate and House of Representatives unexpectedly adjourned plenary sessions […]
Dodgy and unethical behaviour in the Australian Passport Office cost taxpayers hundreds of millions. Why did DFAT try to keep it secret? The Australian Passport Office (Image: AAP/Diego Fedele) The auditor-general has, in the face of extraordinary resistance from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), revealed extensive and serious misconduct within the Australian […]
C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre, might we have muttered at the sinking of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), the ship that torpedoed itself. If the NACC was, as many suspect, set up to fail by the duopolists of the two major parties, the people they put in charge could not have served […]
These questions, says immigration lawyer Ira Kurzban, are asked to see whether an applicant obtained their residence validly, a prerequisite for citizenship. US immigration authorities have, he says, become “very exacting” on this point over the past 10 years. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service didn’t respond to an inquiry about whether forms used by […]
Kennedy’s past makes him an unlikely candidate for agriculture secretary, according to Daniel Glickman, who served in the role during Bill Clinton’s presidency. “It’s hard for me to imagine, given Trump’s traditional base in the heartlands, that he would pick somebody who was an advocate for breaking up large farms and breaking consolidated agriculture,” says […]
Jeremy Clarkson warned farmers had been “shafted” in Reeves’s historic Budget (Image: Getty) Labour’s “cruel farm tax” will have a “disastrous” impact on thousands of family-run rural businesses, the Chancellor has been warned. Rachel Reeves is being urged to reverse her decision to scrap a vital tax lifeline for family-run farms after it was roundly […]
Magazine “Perhaps more so than in other countries given its unique political status, Taiwan’s voters attach greater significance to foreign policy and more precisely relations with the United States and China.” Taiwan has occasionally emerged as a talking point in the U.S. presidential campaign, from candidate comments on how far they would go to defend […]
Seventy-two percent of the world’s population lives under some sort of autocratic rule, says freedom fighter Leopoldo Lopez. In a rousing call to defend democracy worldwide, he shares the story of his imprisonment and exile for leading the movement against Venezuela’s authoritarian regime — and shares his vision for uniting across borders to champion freedom […]
Radiohead and the Smile singer Thom Yorke paused a recent solo concert in Melbourne, Australia, after being heckled by a pro-Palestine member of the audience. Footage from the concert shows a man shouting about the death tolls in Israel’s war in Gaza and asking Yorke, “How could you be silent?” (The Israeli offensive, in Gaza, […]