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Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:30
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The post Flow Power reaches financial close on its first stand-alone big battery, in Victorian coal country appeared first on Renew Economy. |
Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:28
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IS DONALD TRUMP DOING HIS BIT AND TRYING TO PREVENT GLOBAL WARMING BY PREVENTING RUSSIA AND VENEZUELA TO SELL THEIR OIL? ONE WOULD HAVE TO BE SARCASTIC TO SUGGEST THIS CAPER, AS DONALD WANTS HE AND HIS MATES (SAUDIS, ETC) TO HAVE EXCLUSIVE PETRODOLLAR RIGHTS ON THIS WARMING PLANET — A WARMING DUE TO THE HUMAN USAGE OF FOSSIL FUELS...................
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Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:07
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The post Snowy could emerge as the fairy godmother in race for contracts and capital to replace ageing coal clunkers appeared first on Renew Economy. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:00
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New Zealand house prices continue to fall. The REINZ House Price Index fell 0.3% over the past two months (seasonally adjusted), with economists describing the result as “renewed weakness” after a brief stabilisation earlier in the year. Compared to May, house prices are down by more than 1.2%. Home sales were weak in November, declining The post New Zealand’s biggest house price crash in modern history appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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The Tally Room
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 13:00
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Comments have been a problem for a while, with a large volume of comments, often off-topic and not of high quality. As a solution to this problem, I have implemented a new policy. Only logged-in users can comment, and only those who are Tally Room members can log in. That’s people who donate $8 (+GST) per month, plus some grandfathered users who give $5 per month and have been doing so since before the price rise. If you are a Tally Room member and want to have broader discussions, there is always the Discord. Hopefully this will restore the comments to actually being relevant to the content being posted. |
Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 12:06
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The post I am accused of being a global funds manager and half my age. But facts don’t matter in disinformation war appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 12:05
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It is better late than never, but the Albanese government has finally announced a domestic gas reservation scheme for the East Coast of Australia. Under the plan, Australia’s largest exporters would set aside up to 25% of annual east coast gas production for domestic use. Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said Australians “should The post Labor announces inadequate East Coast gas reservation scheme appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:35
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The post Trailblazing wind farm snapped up by Spanish renewables giant hoping to free it of grid constraints appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:30
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By Stephen Saunders: On its triennial immigration stats, Albanese Australia is a radical outlier not the cautious reformer of embedded media narratives. Not even Bondi can budge him. The Labor-Liberal duopoly has made the concept of Big Australia central to its economic policy. After COVID froze mass migration, Morrison and Albanese rushed it back, bigger than |
Renew Economy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:27
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The post Neoen begins construction of another big battery, first in world to deploy Tesla Megablock technology appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:10
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Japan is confronting existential crises: a rapidly aging demographic, a stagnant economy, crippling debt, fraying relationships with its neighbors, and a declining regional influence. Its military buildup and sanctions against neighbouring countries are only worsening these issues.
On Japan’s Soul Searching: Between Tokyo’s Neon Facade and Aokigahara’s Dark Forest Tamer Mansour
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:00
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On the day after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the American left was thoroughly stunned; it had lost the race for the White House to a figure that many believed to be thoroughly unelectable. That morning, author and political activist Michael Moore appeared on CNBC’s breakfast show ‘Morning Joe’. What followed was a strange but The post The American left is its own worst enemy appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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xkcd.com
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 11:00
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 10:30
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In a recent article for the Australian Financial Review, economist Christopher Joye made the case that the expansion of government at all levels was putting upward pressure on inflation and, by extension, interest rates. “At the federal level, the annualised monthly trend budget deficit has deteriorated rapidly from $12 billion in December 2024 to $24 |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 10:00
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The new prudential standard announced last month by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) caps high-risk mortgages (i.e., with a debt-to-income ratio greater than 6x) at 20% of new lending, effective from February 2026. In line with government objectives to increase affordability through supply incentives, APRA’s policy does not apply to newly constructed homes. It |
MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 09:00
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Wall Street is slowly drifting into holiday mode as risk markets peer through to 2026, with volatility contained to currency markets as Yen weakens significantly on the back of Friday’s rate hike by the BOJ. The USD took back some losses against some of the other majors with Euro now at a two week low The post Macro Morning appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 08:00
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Earlier this month, I argued that Victoria was a “lead weight on Australia”, which was informed by the latest state accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). These data show that Victoria’s per capita gross state product (GSP) fell by 0.8% in 2024-25 and has risen by only 10.0% since the Global Financial Crisis The post Victoria: Australia’s lagging state appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 07:00
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From the Market Ear: Nothing NASDAQ NASDAQ is in the middle of the range, trading at the same levels we traded at in late Nov, early Nov, late Oct, early Oct…you get the point. Why not at least at ATH? SPX has hugged bond volatility all year. The inverted MOVE is screaming ATHs… equities just The post Trust the perfect Netscape trajectory or the flashing sell signals? appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 06:55
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Against the backdrop of hysteria over “repressions in Russia,” Great Britain itself has long since transformed into a police state, where dissent is stigmatized and truth is replaced by propaganda. Putin’s response has exposed the double standards of Western media.
The Empire of Lies: How the BBC Strangles Free Speech Under the Mask of Objectivity and Why Trump is Right to Sue Viktor Mikhin
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Your Democracy
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 06:00
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Mourners in Australia fell silent on Sunday in honour of the victims of the Bondi Beach attack. The memorial was part of a national day of reflection to mark a week since the shooting in which two gunmen opened fire on an event celebrating the Jewish festival of Hannukah. |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, December 22, 2025 - 00:05
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Last week, Cotality released its Pain & Gain Report, which measures gains and losses on established homes sold across Australia in the September quarter of 2025. Cotality revealed that the September quarter was Australia’s most profitable resale period in two decades. 95.5% of established homes sold nationally in the quarter made a gross profit, with The post Australia’s housing haves and have-nots appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 22:15
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Reddit users have previously been shamed for running their own investigations into criminal matters, but for the Brown University shooting last Sunday one user proved vital for finding the suspect. On December 13 a gunman killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others in their Engineering building, before escaping by foot. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 18:53
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Donald Trump has claimed that he could pay himself $1 billion in US government money as damages for a raid carried out at his Mar-a-Lago estate by the FBI. |
Renew Economy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 16:29
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The post Korea drops secures grid connection approval for its first big battery in Australia appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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Renew Economy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 16:29
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The post Korean company secures grid connection approval for its first big battery in Australia appeared first on Renew Economy. |
Renew Economy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 16:22
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The post Offshore wind turbines create all-you-can-eat havens where some fish can double in size appeared first on Renew Economy. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 11:28
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Prof. Jiang Xueqin reveals what no one is talking about: Israel's hidden hand in Trump's war on Venezuela and predicts the demise of US empire. In this video, he sits down with Danny Haiphong to comment on the significance of this, and the underlying competition for an Israeli empire that's being kept secret by the elites. Israel's HIDDEN Hand in Venezuela: World War III Has Begun | Prof Jiang Xueqin |
Your Democracy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 08:24
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A fortnight ago, I wrote in these pages that there are two ways to discuss immigration. In good time, civilly and constructively. Or too late, angrily and hatefully. With Australia teetering on a millisecond, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dithered and left it too late. He missed the moment on October 9, 2023, the day after Hamas slaughtered 1200 civilians in Israel. |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 06:55
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There is an unavoidable military reality that Europe continues to deny, even as its own officials whisper it in private briefings and NATO commanders leak the same conclusions to any journalist willing to hear. The conflict is not merely going badly for Ukraine; it is structurally unwinnable.
Strategic Reality: The Conflict of Attrition, Ukraine Cannot Win Phil Butler
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MacroBusiness
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - 00:05
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Switzerland has long been considered a shining example of direct democracy implemented on a national stage, with its people voting on all manner of policy proposals to decide in what direction they want to pursue. The latest proposal, potentially set to be taken to the Swiss people as early as next year, is a hard The post Switzerland’s proposed hard population cap appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Australia renewables gentailer reaches financial close on its first "battery only" project – and its largest project of any sort, to date – in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
Queensland's decision to say no to renewables is bad news for some. But in NSW, it could help Snowy emerge to save the transition away from coal. 
I am accused of being a global funds manager masquerading as a journalist. Facts don't matter much in a war of disinformation waged agains renewables. 
Spanish renewables giant agrees to buy one heavily constrained Victorian wind farms in line for a grid upgrade boost.
Australia's most successful big battery developer starts work on a new project, the first in the world to feature Tesla Megablock 20 MWh units.
A two-hour, 100 megawatt battery energy storage system has received approval to connect to the south-east Queensland grid and help stabilise it. 
New study shows offshore wind turbines create different marine environments that accommodate more groups and more complexity in the oceanic food chain.
