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The wind, solar and battery project secured state and EPA approvals in an astonishing four months.

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A 600MW wind project has the green light to start construction, but government wants turbine numbers cut and restrictions placed on operations.

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Another two major solar and battery projects have been referred to independent commission after objections from mostly long distance and interstate opponents.

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Since late December 2025, there have been widespread protests throughout Iran, which were first triggered by the country’s economic woes, including skyrocketing inflation and a catastrophic currency crash. Protests have more recently evolved into larger anti-regime demonstrations. Media reports more than 500 fatalities in protests and more than 10k arrests. The government has severely restricted

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It no longer matters where you live in Australia. Whether you’re a young person enjoying the beach in Sydney, the machetes in Melbourne, the boredom in Adelaide, the terrible driving in Perth, or any paddock in between, you can forget about owning your own home. The latest Cotality affordability report, out late last year, is

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The US AI jobpocalypse took a breather on Friday night. Although job growth remains anaemic, labour market indicators were better for those who fear AI fallout. Youth unemployment fell to 10.4%. Moreover, the Challenger layoffs series recorded the lowest number of sackings in several years, with year-on-year declines of less than half. Layoffs attributed to

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On Friday morning, around 150 parents, students, and educators gathered for a press conference at Lake Hiawatha Park in South Minneapolis to demand ICE leave Minneapolis. The event took place two days after federal agents detained an on-duty school staffer and member of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators (MFE) at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis.

Friday night was a tale of two jobs reports – Canadian and American – with the latter NFP print coming in weak again although the headline unemployment number fell, giving USD a boost eventually after a volatile session. All the action was really in precious metals and commodities as geopolitical risk hots up across Iran

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The Ukrainian military is plagued with abuse and corruption, with some units dominated by neo-Nazis or foreign drug cartel members, a former Dutch mercenary who fought for Kiev has said.

The retired air force serviceman, who goes by the alias Hendrik, admitted he got disillusioned with Kiev’s cause after travelling to Ukraine on three occasions to fight Russia. “It’s a corrupt gang there,” he told De Telegraaf newspaper in an interview published on Saturday.

Following the release of the official Q2 2025 population statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), IFM Investors’ chief economist, Alex Joiner, published the following chart on Twitter (X) illustrating the extremeness of Australia’s recent population growth. Joiner noted that “in Q4 2000, it took 12 years of net migration to that point to

On Substack, which I frequent daily, a German-American writer, cartoonist and commentator, who goes by the name of Oliver Markus Malloy1, is one person whose posts I read fairly regularly.

A couple of days ago, he posted on Substack, the following: “Question for all Non-Americans: What do you think about Trump’s America?” To this, I replied: “It is buggered. Even if the Trump regime is deposed by the armed forces tomorrow, the damage to the US; its institutions, its science, its medicine, its soft power, will take decades to repair, if indeed that is possible.”

While Germans were asking how it was possible that about 100,000 people in Berlin were left without electricity and heating for several days after an attack on the power supply, Chancellor Friedrich Merz had his hands full with international crises.