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Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the Q1 2025 wage price index, which revealed that Australian real wages were tracking at Q4 2011 levels, 6.1% below their Q2 2020 peak: The OECD also released data showing that Australian real per capita household disposable income was tracking 7.6% below its Q1 2022 peak

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The Australian Automobile Association has published the Electric Vehicle Index for Q1 2025. The data paints a picture of an industry struggling to gain a foothold, despite generous subsidies and incentives from the federal government (read taxpayers). In Q1 2025, only 17,914 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in Australia, down 29.9% from 25,552 in

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Hapless customers have had to pay for an expensive grid design that has delivered a lot of capacity that sits idle most of the time. There is a smarter solution.

For today’s post I am looking at how the Muslim vote changed, using some techniques I’ve previously used to look at voters of Chinese and Indian ancestry in past votes.

At this election we have seen a lot of speculation about Muslim voters switching from Labor, voting for Muslim independents, but also possibly for the Greens, with the war in Gaza being a major influence on that trend. We have seen Muslim groups cease to invite major party politicians to Islamic events that they would have previously attended regularly.

DXY held on last night. AUD the reverse. Still trending higher. Lead boots going nowhere. OIl and gold sank. Metals no byueno. Junk worried. Yild relief. Yield relief. Could not save stocks. It’s a day-by-day proposition right now, but I think TS Lombrd probably has the trend right. America is not about to lose its

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Risk markets were relatively sanguine overnight as the Trump regime’s new “Tax” Deal (aka blowing out the deficit forever) passed while the latest flash PMIs suggested a slight uptick in confidence in the US despite the tariff chaos in the last month. Wall Street was up at one stage but managed to give back almost

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In June 2024, AMP chief economist Shane Oliver presented the following chart estimating that Australia’s housing shortage was about to exceed 200,000 homes: Oliver explained via Twitter (X) that “underlying demographic demand (driven by strong population growth) continues to run well ahead of new housing supply (constrained by capacity and cost issues, etc.), and is

On-site consumption of PV output is invisible to the meter, and shows up as a reduction in electricity consumption.
Does this matter? Yes, it does.

Electric homes are far more efficient than those that rely on fossil gas, and cleaner and healthier too. But they will require storage to avoid surges in peak demand.

The Market on the return of bad. Pausing SPX reversed right on the huge 6k resistance. First bigger support at 5800. Note the slightly negative RSI divergence. Source: LSEG Workspace Risk love Global Equity Risk-Love jumps to the neutral zone from the Panic levels witnessed in April. BofA writes: “Washed-out sentiment, followed by marked improvement

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Join us in this week’s investment podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, and Chief Economist, Leith van Onselen, discuss the Reserve Bank of Australia’s interest rate cut and explore its impact on residential housing and the broader economy. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos.