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With integrated, long-term planning and a focus on innovation, Australia’s clean energy targets are widely seen as achievable.

RT has a larger American audience than CNN, former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has claimed. Clapper was a key figure behind the Russiagate conspiracy theory, which included claims that RT helped influence the election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The Q1 national accounts release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that real per capita GDP decreased by 0.2% over the quarter. This was the ninth fall in per capita GDP in eleven quarters. The chart below compares the present decrease in real per capita GDP to previous episodes stretching back to the

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Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has declared that the situation in Gaza amounts to a “genocide,” blasting the worsening humanitarian crisis and starvation in the enclave.

She also called on Hamas to release the remaining hostages captured during the Islamist group’s October 7 assault on Israel, which left around 1,200 people dead.

Rystad Energy says the cost of China-made offshore wind turbines has dropped by 50 per cent over the past four years, offering significant potential savings for Australian projects.

Via the always excellent Charlie McElligott at Nomura. From Left-Tail To Risk-Tail… 1). The “Trump Collar” helped to compress then collapse realized Volatility off the most extremely 100%ile levels April / May, as the market reconditioned to his reaction function (selling the call at the highs with emboldened tariff rhetoric, but long the put into

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"Things are changing:" Squadron Energy boss wants prefers a national guide on shared benefits over confusing state choose-your-own-adventure options.

As we know, Australia’s East Coast already has a suite of secretly subsidised coal power stations in NSW, VIC and QLD to go alongside heavily subsidised renewables. The reason for this is that the “duck curve” of renewable energy, which makes power super cheap during the day, then expensive in the evening, does not work

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ABS Labour mobility was out yesterday and shows the Great Resignation is well and truly over, if it ever was. the job mobility rate decreased to 7.7% younger workers were more mobile than older workers, with 12% of people aged 15 to 24 years changing jobs 2.2 million people left or lost a job The annual

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Nexa Advisory's Stephanie Bashir on consumer energy, competition and holding networks to account. Plus: News of the week from the ACES conference in Sydney.

New report finds Australia ranks third in the world for the amount of new coal mines under development, despite its climate commitments.

The issue of productivity and its impact on real earnings has been a major source of debate among Australian economists since the Global Financial Crisis. With productivity in headline terms flatlining for the best part of the last decade, except for the lockdown and closed border-driven bump seen during the pandemic, the issue has recently

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The Australian’s Judith Sloan has challenged Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ claim that the federal government has “made a lot of progress together in our first term making our economy more productive, dynamic, and resilient”. Sloan noted that labour productivity is at 2016 levels and business investment’s share of the economy is similar to that of the

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