“Earlier this week the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed the typical Australian was a 38-year-old woman living with her husband and two children in a three-bedroom house with a mortgage.

This was the first step in becoming a representative of the Tiaxcallan people.

Next came the real hardship: starving, beating and bloodletting rituals for about two years on top of learning the moral and legal code of the city.

President Donald Trump says US-Russian relations "may be at an all-time low", echoing the sentiment of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has questioned whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime was responsible for last week's chemical weapons attack on civilians that prompted US missile strikes.

This early 1920s cartoon is from Winsor McCay who was more famous for his strips and animation of "Little Nemo" than his political views. 

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US Defense Secretary James Mattis claims last week's US missile strike on a Syrian airbase damaged or destroyed 20 percent of the country's air force.

"I think [my parents] were in their 40s before they could afford to buy their first home. "It's not something you're meant to get — the two-car garage [house] when you're 22. "I think... that this generation and the one before think that's the way it has to be — well I'm afraid it's not that way." Senator Hinch said a lifetime of renting was common in many big cities around the world, where often people were unable to afford to buy property. "That's why in New York, when you watch programs like Seinfeld, there was such a rush to get hold of rent-controlled apartments," he said. "Because that's the way people lived their lives. They didn't expect to own a house."

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