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Solar farms aren’t just about generating electricity and cutting emissions – they can also be a game-changer for farmers rural economies.

The cognitive dissonance of the Grattan Institute is a sight to behold. This captured ‘think tank’, funded by taxpayers, corporate interests, and Melbourne University, continually produces propaganda on the immense benefits of running a mass immigration program while giving scant attention to the negative externalities on the housing market, infrastructure, productivity, living standards, and the

Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro has published interesting charts showing how Australians continue to pay some of the highest mortgage rates in the world. The first chart shows that Australian mortgage rates on new home loans are the second-highest in the advanced world, behind those of the United States. Australia also has the equal highest

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In the US, the freshly installed administration of President Donald Trump is attempting to drastically reshape science. Here we focus on interventions that are relevant to epidemiology and public health.

These include: (i) restricting or eliminating access to health data; (ii) dictating what kinds of research can be conducted; (iii) cutting ties with international health bodies; and (iv) firing early-career researchers.

Out with the new and in with the newer at the Lunatic RBA. Somebody has to be sacked. The Lunatic RBA has starved the pig for market day. There is no excuse for it. It’s been obvious for six months that inflation is beaten, yet it refused to budge. Now, we have a private-sector economy

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From one election to the next, the swings back and forth of Australian politics can look cyclical – that things start and end in the same place. But when you widen the time frame, things look different. Over time, some place move from being safe seats to marginal seats, or even from being safe seats for one major party to the other major party.

Another ugly night on Wall Street that started out as a lovely time had by all as equity markets across both sides of the Atlantic rebounded on hope that everything is going to be ok. But that was a lie as the Fanta Fuhrer again spoilt the party after first suggesting a delay in new

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A joint federal-state funding deal will use solar, efficiency upgrades and electrification to slash energy costs for social housing homes.

Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?

“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”

Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.

DXY is hanging in there. AUD is not. As lead boots turn to concrete shoes. Commodities are the screaming meteor of death. Landing on big miners. EM lol. The junk skunk! Uh oh, Treasuries are selling with everything else…hello, Liz Truss moment. Stocks whoa. Here is your new world order chart with Trump’s 50% increase

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The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has said that "boys will be boys" after Elon Musk took to X to call Peter Navarro, a long-time aide to Donald Trump, a "moron" who is "dumber than a sack of bricks."