1. North Korea fires missile over Japan.
North Korea has fired a missile over Japan and into the Pacific waters off the northern region of Hokkaido, in a sharp escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula.
South Korea’s military said the missile was launched from the Sunan region near the North Korean capital Pyongyang just before 6am (7am AEST). It flew 2700km, reaching an altitude of about 550km.
“It is an unprecedented, serious and grave threat to our nation,” Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a briefing, adding the government had protested the move in the strongest terms.
Suga said the launch was a clear violation of United Nations resolutions and Japan will work closely with the United States, South Korea and other concerned nations on a response.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earlier this month threatened to fire missiles into the sea near the US Pacific territory of Guam, and President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang would face “fire and fury” if it threatened the United States.
The last North Korean projectile to fly over Japan was in 2009.
2. Malcolm Turnbull “very confident” he will win next election.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has told 7:30’s Leigh Sales on the ABC he is “very confident” he will win the next election.
“We will continue to deliver the economic leadership that is showing strong growth in jobs,” was the point he kept returning to during the 25-minute interview on Monday night.
When pressed as to how this economic leadership is benefiting Australian families – people who might be “struggling to pay for childcare, who go to the emergency room at the hospital and have a long wait, who commute for more than an hour to work every day”, as Sales asked – the Prime Minister doubled down.
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If I read that correctly, 15 million is being used by just one NSW council alone for cats and dogs of domestic violence.
Meanwhile the "exorbitant" cost of the the Federal Government SSM vote at 122 million, less than 10 ten times more than the cats and dogs shelter in a single council is seen as a flagrant waste of money according to the last few articles. It's madness.
I didn't get up this morning looking for a news bite that reinforces the fact that men are seen by & large as disposable by society. But as a male victim of domestic violence I'm glad they are taking care of the dogs & cats. I'll be sure to show this too both my sons. Thanks.
I'm not sure male DV victims need the same support as female victims, not at least in every case. Men tend to have more options when confronted by a violent partner, both physical and economic. Men probably need more legal, financial and counselling help over emergency shelters, with exceptions of course.
But, yes, the Victorian government provided a funding boost for women's accomodation, which is fine, but then allocated $100,000 for pet accomodation and $0 in funding for male victims. Just imagine if that was reversed.
Men have been honed by evolution & social conditioning to be experts at maintaining a stoic front to their suffering. But they are only human at the end of the day. Hence why men make up 75% of the homeless population & 80% of suicides. Men will suffer in silence with little to no outreach from the services their tax dollars alone fund for women (men as a group are the only net payers of tax). Herein lies the rub; pro feminist government policy & the consequential undermining of men's position in the traditional family acts as a major disincentive for men to fulfil & realise their full potential as societies most efficient units of production. We can already see this has reached a tipping point in balooning government debt & deficit. When the music stops & the fat ladies sing it will be every man for himself.
Please qualify "men as a group are the only net payers of tax"
Basically every tax dollar paid by women is spent by women, leaving a deficit that is only filled by tax dollars paid by men. New Zealand published a study on this statistical data recently. Although Australia's notoriously PC government departments avoid such studies it's easily extrapolated from 2 other ABS data sets that this is the case here & likely across every other developed economy. Hence by obvious extension this would be the case across the developing world also. When you realize this it's all the more amazing that feminism as a movement acts so aggressively to subdue the male incentive to produce more then he consumes when that productivity alone is the difference between feminism's survival or not. I guess that's why historically we only see short flashes of movements resembling feminism in the late androgynous stages of an empire before it collapses.