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Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky could bring the fighting with Russia to a halt “immediately” by agreeing to a settlement that rules out NATO membership and entails territorial concessions, US President Donald Trump has said.

According to a 2022 survey conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Indian migrants much prefer Labor to the Coalition. The survey suggested that in the 2022 federal election, Indian migrants voted 58:34 for Labor over the Coalition. Chinese-Australians also appear to prefer Labor. The Tally Room discovered that in the 2022 federal election,

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Big batteries are displacing plans for peaking gas generators, even those that are fully permitted, because they're cheaper and faster to build.

Amidst the ongoing debate over the right level of migration into Australia, there have been attempts to dismiss the impact of high migration on housing, with one notable example coming from SBS, which provided readers with a guide on how to counter arguments from Australians concerned about the issue. An absolutely defining part of the

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The energy transition offers a rare opportunity to retrofit markets for genuine efficiency: more competition, greater transparency, ad real consumer choice.

Deutsche with a wrap of Chinese data: China’s economy activity slowed in July. We estimate real GDP growth droppedby 0.8ppt, to 4.9% YoY in July from 5.7% in June. Leading the slowdown was a sharp drop in fixed asset investment which declined by est. -5.2% YoY across the board, including a notable drop in manufacturing

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Last week, we witnessed the seemingly extraordinary when the East Coast gas export cartel suddenly turned on itself, demanding the domestic reservation of Aussie gas. But was this really what it appeared to be? Or was it just more of the same corruption that has robbed Australians blind for over a decade? I will let

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The AFR is in full panic mode about AI. AI stocks are lifting Wall Street to record highs on what feels like a daily basis, and former Google executive turned author and entrepreneur Mo Gawdat is predicting we are just two years away from a dystopian period that could last about 15 years during which

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We now have a quiet period following the federal election and the Tasmanian election, and I’m using it as an opportunity to complete my election guides for the elections next in the queue.

The South Australian election guide has already been published for some time, but today I’ve published my Victorian election guide.

The Victorian election will be held in November 2026, so that is 15 months from now.

Friday night saw the release of the latest US retail sales numbers with import prices spiking and consumer inflation expectations rising again, getting traders further worried on Wall Street. The USD was on the ropes against all the majors, with oil prices also pushed slightly lower after stalling all week while Treasuries where sold off

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Australia's most coal dependent state sets a new record for "possible" renewable share of 99.3 pct, but curtailment due to negative prices forces many solar farms to switch off.

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky and several Western European leaders are due in Washington on Monday for talks with US President Donald Trump.

The visit comes after Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, in their first face-to-face talks since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Both leaders voiced cautious optimism that the discussions could help move towards a resolution of the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev.

The Trump-Putin encounter in Anchorage has angered some, disappointed others and baffled many more. Yet it has told us much about the state of the war in Ukraine, and the obstacles to the ending of hostilities.

Anyone wishing to make sense of the event would not have been helped by Trump’s proverbial incoherence and self-promotion. Nor was the banal coverage on offer in much of the Western mainstream media any more helpful.