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Join us in this week’s podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, looks at Oracle, where Larry Ellison is suddenly threatening Musk for the title of the world’s richest man and profits are looking like 10xing. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is

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A new report from the Australian National University has found that while the annual migrant intake is capped at 185,000, there are far fewer skilled migrants from overseas coming into Australia than intended. The report shows that just 12% of places in the nation’s migration program are going to skilled workers; instead, many of these

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Sophie Vorrath speaks with Plico Energy CTO George Martin about pioneering virtual power plants in WA, battery rebates, customer trust, and how VPPs benefit both households and the grid.

Jacob Greber has a long tradition of being a businessomics commentator rather than an objective journalist, but he outdid himself yesterday with a bald-faced piece of propaganda for the gas cartel. The piece represents objectivity, but it makes one crucial statement that renders it pure cartel guff. At four minutes, Greber says that Peter Dutton

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True to form, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took to Twitter (X) to declare that “Australia has one of the fastest growing economies”, “unemployment is down, real wages are up”, and “the private sector is continuing to drive economic growth”. It is worth investigating each of these claims. First, on Australia’s growth, Alex Joiner provided the

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Half-truths and hypocrisy: GPS-jammed Ursula von der Leyen speaks againFrom “Europe must fight” to drones sold as peace and a tale of stolen children debunked, the EU president’s state of the union was heavy on rhetoric and light on reality.....

Ben was joined by Matt Dennien from the Brisbane Times to discuss the Queensland state redistribution, specifically the first round of submissions. The conversation focuses on the Labor and LNP submissions, and also run through some of the other public submissions.

Abstract- If the Soviet Union was the “Evil Empire” of the 1980s, it seems in the modern era the roles have switched and now the US/West is the Evil Empire, seeking to impose itself and stamp out foreign cultures and subjugate entire countries.

Who is the Modern Evil Empire?    Bryan Anthony Reo

The Russian military has suggested consultations with its Polish counterparts, after being accused by Warsaw of violating the country’s airspace with drones. The Defense Ministry in Moscow neither confirmed nor denied such violations, but implied that whatever aircraft crossed the border were not launched from Russia.

Multiple Western officials have already accused Moscow of staging a reckless provocation and hailed NATO’s joint response.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul tore into Vice President JD Vance's defense of the U.S. military's strike on an alleged drug vessel leaving Venezuela.

And he cited a long-loved literary classic to prove his point.

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To address climate change, the world needs very ambitious climate targets. Australia is about to announce its own: Get ready for disappointment.

Having recently written a long piece about the origin of what was termed neoliberal economics and how it inevitably led to a disgraceful, vacuous, malignant narcissist like Trump being elected to the US presidency1, I decided to have a crack at looking at the effects it has had on the UK and the US populace. This is Part 1 and deals with income inequality, wage stagnation, job insecurity and declining union influence.

Queensland plans to keep its state owned coal generators running longer, clouding the opportunities for new renewables and putting its climate targets at risk.