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Federal government provided green tick to solar and battery hybrid project in Queensland in just 19 days.

A large wind turbine blade has fallen into a cranberry bog, prompting some local residents to question the safety of such installations.

Australia’s laws are currently incapable of halting the flood of falsehoods shaping public opinion on climate and clean energy.

Ahead of the Everything Electric Show in Melbourne, Robert Llewellyn returns to The Driven Podcast to chat about where the transition’s working, where it’s stalling, and why optimism still matters.

With the election of Zohran Mamdani to the office of Mayor of New York, an event thought practically impossible just a few decades ago has come to pass: the most populous city in the United States and the centre of the financial world has an avowed socialist as its mayor. His victory speech possessed themes

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OMG. The economists are panicking. “Interest rate cuts are off the table,” Mr Bloxham said. “The problem is that productivity is so weak that supply is constrained. So as input costs such as labour and energy rise there is no equal increase in output.” UBS economist George Tharenou said the underlying inflation rate would overshoot

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The first expansion of parliament was passed in 1948, and came into force at the 1949 election. It was also the largest increase we’ve seen, either proportionally or in raw numbers. The House and Senate were each expanded by two thirds – the House grew from 74 to 121, while the Senate grew from 36 to 60.

This blog post follows the model of my previous analysis of the 1984 parliamentary expansion, and will likewise be the first of two parts.

Like other advanced nations, Australia is facing pressures from an ageing population. The federal government has tried to mitigate these ageing pressures by running a high immigration policy to mitigate labour shortages and increase the number of taxpayers. Former senior immigration department bureaucrat Abul Rizvi believes that Australia’s annual net overseas migration will average 300,000

And will they stay loyal?

When I first started following politics, in the dying days of the McMahon LNP government, most people voted consistently for one or other of the two major parties, Labor and Liberal/Country. The only important exception, the DLP, was just about to disappear. At that time, the common view was that consistent party voters were acting out of habit or class/cultural identity, while “swinging” voters made a considered choice, based on policies, candidates and so on. Since both major parties got close to 50 per cent most of the time, appealing to these swinging voters was seen as the crucial task.

RACHEL MADDOW HAS A FIT, DISGORGING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO THE WAY RUSSIA IS TRYING TO DESTROY KIEV — EXCEPT RUSSIA IS NOT TRYING TO... RUSSIA WANTS TO MAKE A DEAL THAT PREVENTS THE WEST AND THE NAZIS IN YUCKRAINE FROM DESTROYING THE RUSSIAN CULTURE AND THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN PART OF UKRAINE FOR A LONG TIME.

The Albanese government’s fantastical target of building 1.2 million dwellings over five years, or 240,000 homes a year, is based on delivering another boom in high-rise apartment towers, even greater than the one experienced between 2015 and 2020. To meet the federal government’s lofty housing construction target, Australia would need to build more homes than

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is viewed as a potential “partner” by the Communist Party of Russia (KPRF), its deputy chairman has said.

Speaking to Kommersant on Thursday, MP Leonid Kalashnikov said Mamdani’s proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy closely resemble policies advocated by the party.