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Battery project referred to independent panel after long distance objectors, some familiar to the senate inquiry into misinformation, raised concerns.

Several NATO members will jointly provide a €430 million ($500 million) military package for Ukraine, according to Secretary General Mark Rutte. 

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden are expected to finance the package through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List program. The program was approved in September, allowing Washington to supply weapons to Kiev while European members cover the costs.

The ferrous complex remains paralysed by overly high iron ore prices. I have switched to Shanghai HRC (purple) prices from the national average, which may help explain some of the stickiness in iron ore prices. Despite the recent price falls in steel inputs, steel remains unprofitable. Production is being forced lower. But slowly so far.

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Why don’t we get to grips with the climate crisis? Partly because most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th November 2025

If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been at hand for years. What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate crisis running headlong into the epistemic crisis.

As Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert undergo the slings and arrows of outrageous censorship, a timely new documentary chronicles a sketching scourge of the status quo who skewered the powers that be, lampooning politicians, oligarchs and other tyrannical targets with a pen wielded like a harpoon.

A survivor of the Black Summer fires describes how coordinated misinformation campaigns transform personal tragedy into an ongoing battleground.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has ridiculed the German government’s pleas to Kiev to keep fighting-age Ukrainian men at home.

The Castle remains good law in Australia. Almost three decades since the battling suburban solicitor Dennis Denuto introduced us all to the high legal concept of “the vibe of the thing”, the High Court has broadly endorsed the classic movie’s basic contention: a man’s home is his castle.

 Andrew Fraser

International reading: Foreclosures surge 20% as Americans struggle to pay mortgages – and fears of 2008-style crash soar – Daily Mail Economist Stunned By Trump’s Latest Wild Claim: ‘Quite Literally False’ – Huff Post Ford CEO says he has 5,000 open mechanic jobs with 6-figure salaries from the shortage of manually skilled workers: ‘We are

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China has a population of just over 1.4 billion people with a density of 151 people per square kilometre, while the United States has a population of just over 347 million people with a density of 38 people per square kilometre1. Given the recent relatively rapid growth of the Chinese economy and its huge population it is likely that it will surpass the size of the US economy in the near future. There are several ways of measuring the size of an economy. They include:

On Thursday, Stats NZ released data showing that 12,400 net migrants arrived in the year to September 2025, down from a net gain of 42,400 in the September 2024 year. The current migration inflow is also well below the circa 130,000 peak in 2023 and is below the decade average annual net inflow of about

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As the federal Coalition implodes on energy, Victoria looks into joining federal Labor and introducing a regulated "free electricity" window, powered by solar.