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In 2022 I wrote a blog post where I explained the phenomenon of the AEC needing to do more distribution of preferences before declaring election results, and thus needing longer to complete this process. We now have updated information for 2025, and can see that this process has become even more complex this year. When you look at how this has changed over two decades, it is a remarkable transformation.

Energy innovators want NEM Review panel to ditch "hub-and-spoke" market thinking, and flip the focus from big to small, such as consumer batteries and demand response.

New report says number of coal breakdowns over summer was far worse than expected, underlining case for intermittent coal to be replaced by variable renewables and storage.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the Q1 wage price index, which rose by 0.9% over the quarter to be 3.4% higher year-on-year: The result was stronger than expected, with analysts tipping a 0.8% rise over the quarter and 3.2% year-on-year. The rise in wage growth was driven by the public sector, where

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The Market Ear on the recession that never was. Best recession ever Once again, the recession never came. Economists and markets spent much of the past year bracing for a downturn—citing rate hikes, inverted yield curves, and slowing indicators—only to watch the economy remain stubbornly resilient. It’s a familiar pattern. As the old adage goes, “macroeconomists

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United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called for the nation to take back its borders, saying the UK is becoming an “island of strangers” and that immigrants should learn to speak English. He has announced sweeping immigration reforms with the aim of reducing net overseas migration back to pre-pandemic levels. NEW: UK Prime Minister

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For today’s blog post, I thought I’d wrap up the remaining urban teal contests in Sydney and Perth.

To start with, this map shows the seats of Wentworth, Mackellar, Warringah and Bradfield. The first three have incumbent independents running for re-election, while the fourth had a strong contest that is now too close to call. Of course it’s worth emphasising that these maps only show the ordinary election day booths. Large parts of the vote have been cast through other methods and they are usually more conservative.

In October 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard released a white paper titled Australia in the Asian Century.

The paper offered a lightweight commentary about a coming Asian Century and provided a few thought bubbles on how Australia might respond to such a development. What it failed to understand was that the Asian Century had been well and truly under way for at least 50 years prior to 2012.

New opposition leader led efforts to destroy a landmark anti-fossil legal case, but is also capable of defending climate policies in general. What will the next three years look like?

A single, small, low-quality do-it-yourself poster recently displayed in the center of Germany’s capital Berlin has caused a minor scandal that has gone against the grain of the country’s usually unshakable support for Israel while the latter is committing genocide.

Chosen on Tuesday as the first woman to lead the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, Sussan Ley is assured of a place in history as breaker of the party's "glass ceiling".

But politics has its own traditions, so another phrase may fit better: the "glass casing".

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