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By Bert Hetebry   Having worked for many years with a diverse number of people from different ethnic groups and religions, and some with no religion, I was impressed that despite the differences, everybody seemed to get along. Being interested, I asked people about their faith, and found that people held their faith and cultural traditions…

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Rex Patrick has dug into how Pistol Pete Dutton reached his nuclear conclusions. In September 2020, the Morrison Government released a Low Emissions Technology Statement that placed Small Modular Reactors (SMR) on a list of watching brief technologies. SMR developments were to be monitored to see if they might play a part in Australia’s energy

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The inaugural chair of the Productivity Commission, Gary Banks, has joined the pile-on against the Albanese government’s “Future Made” subsidies for low-emissions manufacturing. In a speech to the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), Banks described the subsidies as a “fool’s errand” that would embed waste and lower the nation’s productivity: “Seeking to obtain benefits to

Join us in this week’s investment podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen dissects the war, its effect on the oil price, and the oil price’s effect on inflation. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at the Macrobusiness Fund,

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released labour market data for March, which shows that the nation’s unemployment rate rose by 0.1% to 3.8% following a 6.,600 contraction in the number of jobs: The result beat analysts’ expectations of a 3.9% rate. The underemployment rate also fell by 0.1% over the month to 6.5%,

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By James Moore   The only feature not mentioned was drool. On his second day in court, charged with multiple felonies, the putative leader of the free world once more fell asleep. The man who has called the current president, “Sleepy Joe Biden,” cannot keep his eyes open in the midst of a trial that may…

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Without reformed environment protection laws, the Safeguard Mechanism – the government’s main plan to drive down emissions from large polluters – won't work properly.

Queensland scientists have created a way to produce electricity using carbon dioxide in a development they say could power phones and computers.

Go Straya: Chemicals major Qenos has called in voluntary administrators after its former Chinese owners sold the company to property developer Logos. The plastics maker runs plants in Victoria and NSW, and on Wednesday appointed McGrathNicol as voluntary administrators. I’m not sure who will want to live there. The  Qenos factory site is putrid: But

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Israel planned to retaliate against Iran immediately following Tehran’s drone and missile attack on Saturday, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to hold off after speaking with US President Joe Biden, Israeli media have reported.

According to the public broadcaster Kan, the war cabinet in West Jerusalem had already approved a range of responses – depending on the scope of the Iranian attack – that would have taken place as early as Sunday. 

It’s no surprise that the informal rate increased at the recent Tasmanian state election, but I wanted to explore how high the rate went, and what might explain it.

Tasmania has a rule that voters must number as many boxes as there are seats to be filled. That was seven up until 1996, five from 1998 until 2021, and then seven again this year.

European Commission signs off on major plan to bolster the bloc's solar sector through measures including government procurement of locally made panels.