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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has accused social media platforms of attempting to censor the case against an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.Facebook removed ads that were paid for by conservative lobby group Advance Australia.They encouraged people to vote against the proposed ‘Voice’ which is set to become the subject of a referendum this year.Abbott has told Sky news that he believes the Albanese government is relying on big tech to censor the ‘No’ case. Source: Sky News

“I wasn’t a blond, and I was on the cover of Vogue. It was…significant,” notes Shalom Harlow, with a smirk in her Life in Looks. The video follows a grunge-to-glamour through line, as it starts with the model’s appearance in Marc Jacobs’s infamous 1993 collection. “This is how I looked in my off-hours,” says Harlow of that historic runway. She also talks about the pre-Instagram moment she had at Alexander McQueen’s spring 1999 show, where she stood on a rotating platform while two robots sprayed her with paint. Twenty years later, in 2018, Harlow would go viral with a Versace video…

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The global stock of negative-yielding bonds has dwindled to zero after last month’s unexpected policy shift by the Bank of Japan undermined the last bastion of sub-zero yields.Negative yields — which occur when bond prices climb so high that buyers holding them to maturity are guaranteed to lose money — engulfed a broad swath of global fixed-income markets in recent years, with the market value of debt trading at a yield below zero soaring above $18tn in late 2020 after central banks slashed interest rates and launched huge bond-buying programmes in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.But last year’s abrupt…

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has purged a former foreign minister who played an instrumental role in his summits with former US President Donald Trump in 2018 and 2019, South Korean lawmakers said on Thursday (Jan 5), citing intelligence officials. Ri Yong-ho has remained out of the public eye since denuclearisation talks with Washington stalled following a failed summit in early 2019 in Vietnam between Kim and Trump, but Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Wednesday that he was executed last year, citing unnamed sources. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service told lawmakers that Ri has been purged but it…

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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s controversial littoral combat ships (LCS) procurement project will continue, with the first vessels scheduled to set sail as soon as July 2024, said Defence Minister Mohamad Hasan on Thursday (Jan 5).  “We are not interested in suing anybody or putting someone behind bars, (but) what I’m only interested in is to see the ships in our waters by July 2024,” he was quoted as saying by Bernama when delivering his new year’s message at the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) headquarters.  Mr Mohamad Hasan, also known as Tok Mat, said the RM9 billion (US$2 billion) procurement project is…

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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has played into the infamous Sydney and Melbourne rivalry as he teased the lack of attractions that Australia’s second largest city has to offer.Melbourne’s swelling population is set to hit 6 million by 2032 which means it will take the lead over Sydney to become Australia’s most populated hub.Despite a mass exodus following some of the harshest lockdowns in the world, Melbourne is set to make a comeback and grow by 2,000 residents a week according to the Centre for Population.Mr Perrottet flashed a cheeky smile and did not hold back as reporters asked him what…

Beijing: China on Thursday (Jan 5) insisted it had been transparent with the international community about its COVID-19 data, as it hit back against World Health Organization (WHO) criticism that its tally of virus deaths was understating the true scale of its outbreak. There is mounting international concern over China’s steep rise in COVID-19 infections since Beijing abruptly lifted years of hardline restrictions last month, with hospitals and crematoriums quickly overwhelmed. More than a dozen countries have imposed fresh COVID-19 rules on visitors from China in the wake of that outbreak, requiring all arrivals to submit negative virus tests with…