Soon, we won’t even notice. It’ll just be part of the air that we breathe. A choking toxic misogynistic stew that will silently pour over the culture war trenches like mustard gas. Darkness is coming. This is the world social media created. And we’re much further out than we thought.

The report said the rise in the number of vacant homes highlighted the extent to which Victoria’s housing supply is at the mercy of speculative incentives, including a federal tax system favouring capital gains over rental income.

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Hamas loves Joe Biden — or so says Israel's powerful Minister for National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir.Joe Biden has engaged in "an anti-Semitic lie" — or so says Israel's influential Minister for Finance, Bezalel Smotrich.These two men are kingmakers in Israeli politics. They form part of the character of the Israeli government.They can bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a single phone call. Without their support, Netanyahu's fragile coalition government would collapse.These two men are influential in driving Israel's war in Gaza. They have resisted for months any calls for a ceasefire as — in their view — there should never be any deal with Hamas.And these men are not just far-right extremists but, in fact, terrorists according to Ami Ayalon, who ran Israel's security service Shin Bet.