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Australia’s Treasurer of propaganda was back at it again, boasting on Twitter (X) that Labor has delivered a big rise in housing supply since being elected in mid-2022: The actual data on net dwelling additions (i.e., dwelling completions minus demolitions) from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) paints a far less rosy picture. It shows

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has revealed that the federal government’s energy bill subsidies will not be extended next year. The $75 a quarter reduction for all households, which began in mid-2023 but was twice extended to alleviate cost-of-living pressures, will expire in December as scheduled. The bill subsidies have cost taxpayers almost $7 billion. “This was

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Of all the nations in the world, Australia has one of the strangest sets of geopolitical relationships. On one hand, Australia has been a key U.S. ally since the American entry into World War 2, with the key battles of the Coral Sea and Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) fought to secure shipping lanes to Australia within

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Renewables meet nearly two thirds of power fed into grid in Germany in third quarter, not including self consumption from household PV and industrial facilities.

A lot of people would love to know how the electoral map would change if the parliament was expanded.

We’ve already been able to get some idea of what might happen by looking back at the historical experience from the 1948-49 and 1983-84 expansions. But the political system has changed since 1984, as has the map.

So I wanted to try drawing my own map, attempting as best as I can to draw sensible boundaries that fit within population constraints, and then examine what those maps would mean.

Overnight action on stock markets was muted given the selloff in bonds across most sovereign markets with Treasuries falling back following hawkish comments from all sides on inflationary pressures. It appears the Fed may soon adopt the cautiously hawkish approach going into 2026, even after a pre-Christmas rate cut, inline with other central banks which

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Australia has run one of the strongest immigration programs in the world this century, which has grown the nation’s population by an extraordinary 8.9 million people (based on the latest reading from the ABS Population Clock). Australia’s population growth has outpaced virtually every other developed nation this century, thanks to 20 years of mass migration.

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During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Belém do Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell gave a rousing speech. 

While some commentators will blame anything and everything on renewable energy, new data illustrates how it is helping to push down electricity prices.

The latest Japanese GDP figures were the biggest catalyst here in Asia while a boost in tech stocks is seeing Chinese shares lift higher in afternoon trade. The possibility of an BOJ rate hike maybe lessening on the faster than expected retraction in GDP growth as the Trump regime’s tariff hits exports. Yen strengthened somewhat

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Two Australian innovators with consumer-driven missions to fast-track the uptake of renewables have joined forces, in deal backed by large Canadian pension fund.

By Ross Elliott from The Pulse: Increasingly, I am curious why the presence of a train station on a map immediately conjures up in the minds of some urban planners images of potentially vast numbers of people transiting by rail—an opportunity too good not to capture. ‘Transit-oriented development’ as a concept seems in practice almost

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The release of the next planning roadmap for the grid this week heads a busy and important fortnight for the energy market, with "step change" still at its core.