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Tree-change couple say they are shocked at "immature and unsophisticated" lenders after having mortgage rejected due to a wind farm caveat.

Neeraj Das from ElecSome on the huge economic and resource opportunity solar recycling presents for Australia – and how close we are to stuffing it up. Plus news of the week.

New report from Climate Analytics says if countries deliver on prior promises it would reduce average global warming by nearly 1°C.

All recent opinion polls show that Australian voters are fed up with excessive levels of immigration. People cite the impact on the housing market as a major concern. Recently, AMP chief economist forecast that Australia’s cumulative housing shortage is at least 200,000 and could be as much as 300,000. The latest projections from the National

It is maddening watching the Domain newspapers distort everything about property. Real estate agents will have to disclose a home’s reserve price well before buyers attend auctions under Australian-first laws aimed at tackling rampant property underquoting in Victoria. The fundamental change, to be announced by the Allan government on Thursday, follows this masthead’s Bidding Blind investigation, which

The ferrous complex reamins paralysed by the jaws. Goldman has some intelligence from the ground. Steel: steel demand is seen as reasonable to solid/stable, with ongoing weakness in property and infrastructure construction sectors being offset by strong demand from manufacturing, auto, shipbuilding, machinery and exports. All steel mills we had meetings with are seeing the

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers doesn’t know when to shut up. On Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) posted wage price data for the September quarter of 2025, which showed that real inflation-adjusted wages fell by 0.5% over the quarter: The decline took Australian real wages back to mid-2011 levels, tracking 6.4% below the mid-2020 peak.

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Federal energy and climate minister Chris Bowen touted South Australia’s world-leading renewables share in a final pitch to secure hosting rights for next year’s COP31 UN climate conference. Appearing at the COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday, Bowen unveiled a report from the Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG) boasting South Australia’s three-quarter share

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In this exclusive conversation, company leaders and experts explore the reasons behind the rebrand, the expansion into new product lines, and what this means for the future of clean energy.

Labor has missed so many opportunities to rid the nation of this economic millstone that I have no faith it is about to do so. Yet the gas cartel is weak, leaderless, and divided. Top gas executives will gather in Perth this week in a last-ditch attempt to shape the Albanese government’s overhaul of the

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Federal government gives quick, conditional approval for one of the country's biggest battery projects, located near giant smelter.

Since the start of 2025, the Australian labour market has been on a rollercoaster. It has produced month-on-month results that any government would gladly take credit for, such as the October print, and it has produced results that policymakers would rather forget, such as the 52,800 jobs lost in the February release. But cutting through

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Danny [Daniel Davis] explains that after years of stalled efforts, there are now real signs that the Russia-Ukraine war might be moving toward a negotiated settlement. A secret 28-point U.S.–Russia peace proposal is reportedly being drafted, inspired by Trump’s earlier ceasefire framework used in the Israel–Hamas conflict. The plan reportedly covers four broad categories:

ending the war,

security guarantees for both sides,

a new European security structure, and