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A meat processing plant generating electricity from waste water, a company transforming landfill into fuel and a global geoscience data competition accelerating the process of mineral discovery are just some of the innovative projects recognised in this year’s Premier Awards.

The Teranet-National Bank House Price Index for October has been released, which shows that Canadian house prices fell by 0.1% across the 11 major markets, with annual growth improving to 1.0%: However, prices in Vancouver rebounded, rising by 0.2% in October to be down 6.2% since peaking in July 2018. The Real Estate Board of

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EDL launches first stage of hybrid micro-grid project that will integrate solar, wind and battery storage to power remote gold mine in WA.

You’ve got to love the powers that be. Their arrgoant disregard for standards of living, for the wishes of the people, for simple economic sense, via Domain: A new blueprint for the NSW economy predicts the state’s annual output will hit $1 trillion by the end of next decade and reach $2 trillion by around

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Sex, the late Gore Vidal astutely observed, is politics, and not merely from the vantage point of those who wish to police it. In the case of whistleblowers, claims of aberrant, unlawful sex serves the purpose of diminishing credibility, tarring and feathering the individual and furnishing a distraction. Forget what was disclosed; focus, instead, on…

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The private health insurance death spiral rolls on, with the percentage of Australians in private health insurance continuing to plummet: There is no good news for private health insurers in the quarterly health Insurance statistics released today. The headline number – the proportion of the population insured – continues to decline and most of the

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With Australia’s population ballooning on the back of mass immigration, and projected to add around 360,000 people a year until 2066: And Sydney’s population projected to nearly double to 9.6 million people over the next 48 years: Water bills are set to rise as demand overruns supply: Sydney Water has submitted a revised submission to

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First it was the US Congress, via Reuters: The U.S. Senate, in a unanimous vote, passed legislation on Tuesday aimed at protecting human rights in Hong Kong amid China’s crackdown on a pro-democracy protest movement that has gripped the vital financial center for months. Following the voice vote by senators, the “Hong Kong Human Rights

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New research by the Australian Institute’s Centre for Future Work, commissioned by Industry Super Australia, claims that wages have generally increased at a higher rate in years when the superannuation guarantee rate has also risen. The Australia Institute’s report also warns that shelving the legislated increase in the super guarantee is likely to result in

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New modelling from a group of academics from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) suggests that Australia’s mass immigration policy is making Australians poorer and raising inequality: We modelled four development scenarios for Australia through to 2030: “Growth at all Costs”, emphasising economic growth “Green Economy”, emphasising environmental outcomes “Inclusive Growth”, emphasising social equality

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Not content with
losing his contract with Rugby Australia and Rugby New South Wales because of
his hateful tweet about homosexuals being condemned to hell unless they repent1,
now the buffoonish Israel Folau has said that the timing of the current round
of bushfires was not a coincidence. He stated, in his often confusing way, at
Kenthurst church: “Look how rapid these bushfires, these droughts, all these
things have come in a short period of time. You think it is a coincidence or
not? … They have changed that law and legalised same-sex marriage and now those

Via Bill Evans at Westpac: • The six month annualised growth rate in the Westpac– Melbourne Institute Leading Index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity relative to trend three to nine months into the future, lifted from –1.01% in September to –0.91% in October. Despite a slight improvement in the month, the Leading

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Good stuff here from HSBC: The only other game changer I can see would be a major European fiscal stimulus that, so far, is not coming.

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