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A joint federal-state funding deal will use solar, efficiency upgrades and electrification to slash energy costs for social housing homes.

Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?

“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”

Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.

DXY is hanging in there. AUD is not. As lead boots turn to concrete shoes. Commodities are the screaming meteor of death. Landing on big miners. EM lol. The junk skunk! Uh oh, Treasuries are selling with everything else…hello, Liz Truss moment. Stocks whoa. Here is your new world order chart with Trump’s 50% increase

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The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has said that "boys will be boys" after Elon Musk took to X to call Peter Navarro, a long-time aide to Donald Trump, a "moron" who is "dumber than a sack of bricks."

Tom Elliott from Radio 3AW outlined multiple reasons why he believes Australian home prices will boom amid the fallout from the Trump administration’s trade war. First, Elliott argued that the share market rout is likely to see a flight to the perceived safe haven of property. “When the share market gets the wobbles as it

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Morrison intervened in Australia Post awarding 4 watches but did absolutely nothing to stop Communist China taking over the military port of Darwin for an entire century. 

The Sunshine State's extraordinary story of accelerating renewables transition, and its benefits for the economy, cost of living, jobs and climate is now at risk.

My bachelor holiday was rudely interrupted by surgery this morning, the excision of the sneaky little melanoma that decided to set up shop on my left cheek.

Quite a bit more cutting and sewing than normal. 81 stitches by the time my dermo was finished. The chicks are gonna dig this scar, let me tell you.

I had all these big plans to come home and crank out some words, because I’m a hard nut. Or maybe just a nut.

But I took a few pain killers and fell asleep instead.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

Queensland extends life of Callide coal plant for three years as its cites cost blowouts on the Copperstring transmission line and pumped hydro for a major energy review.

This is not about coal or renewables. It is about gas. The Callide B power station in central Queensland will stay open for up to three years longer than its planned closure date and the life of the state’s other coal-fired generators will also be extended under a major policy shift by the Crisafulli government

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For the second month in a row stock markets have tumbled in the first week of the month. As such, last month’s performance is far less meaningful than current conditions. Our pitch to investors is that we want to lean into the cycle. Sell some stocks when they seem overvalued, switch into bonds, then buy

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The Trump administration’s tariffs and the associated stock market rout have had an immediate negative impact on Australian consumer sentiment. Westpac’s Consumer Sentiment Index dropped 6% to 90.1 in April, falling to a six-month low. Sentiment was 10% lower amongst those surveyed following the US tariff announcement. Perversely, consumers were less confident on the prospect