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Renewables dedicated offshoot of finance giant Macquarie emerges as buyer of oil giant's gigawatt-scale portfolio of solar and storage projects around Australia.

The post Investment giant snaps up 1 GW solar and battery portfolio of retreating oil supermajor appeared first on Renew Economy.

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

Anthony Albanese is a renowned backroom bovver boy. He doesn’t care about policy or the country. He cares about power and keeping his side in charge of it. And boy, is he on a winner with One Nation. As noted last week, ON is now destroying the opposition LNP at the state level just as

The post Albo is deliberately building One Nation appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Too often I dream

Our lousy world leaders

Spirited from the ice cream

But to the world’s horrors

Replacement would be

Stung evermore by the bee

Imagine Rubio Hegseth or Vance

Taking over the Donald’s trance

Spinning the macabre dance

Of a debauched Epstein stance

Should we take such a chance

Til one left is Chuck Schumer

Or a loser named Booker

Imagine the idiots replacing Sir Keir

Only Parliamentary nerds noticed. One such nerd Rex Patrick noticed and reports on a transparency dummy spit by Labor on the floor of the Senate.

Formal Business

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years....

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

BY Mary Beard

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Last week, the UK committed up to £1 billion to community and local energy, with an ambition that by 2030, every community will have the opportunity to own an energy project. Australia should take notice.

The post The UK has just thrown its weight behind community energy. Australia should too appeared first on Renew Economy.

Perhaps the most important feature of the latest monthly electricity data from the IEA is not that renewables dominate growth in electricity consumption but that every country is doing the same thing.

The post New global data confirms renewables are booming – and not just in the big economies appeared first on Renew Economy.

Australia’s auction market has continued to fade following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) interest rate hike this month. According to Cotality, the national preliminary auction clearance rate declined to 68.0%, down from 70.7% last weekend (revised to 63.3% on final numbers) and 73.7% two weeks ago (revised to 66.1% on final numbers). This weekend’s

The post Fading auction market signals house price falls appeared first on MacroBusiness.

"This week’s news that Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died after allegedly ingesting poison from a South American frog while imprisoned in the Arctic is a reminder that Russia also has a long history of assassinating critics of the regime."

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Welcome to Scheer Intelligence, in this episode, Robert Scheer sits down with media scholar Nolan Higdon to dissect the explosive revelations emerging from the Epstein Files — newly exposed documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

At nearly 90 years old, Scheer says he has never seen anything like this.

I spoke last week at a meeting organised by the Brisbane Flight Paths Community Association to demand a curfew on planes flying over Brisbane. These are mostly either international flights (subsidised by the state government) to promote tourism) or overnight freight, for which there is a fairly modest convenience benefit

By contrast, the adverse health effects and sleep disruption associated with night-time airport noise have huge costs, running into the billions, whether you estimate these directly or via effects on land values.