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The last of the 1,300 oversized parts for Andrew Forrest's biggest wind farm to date have been delivered to the site.

Emmanuel Macron has been spraying himself with copious amounts of luxury cologne, according to excerpts from a new book about the French president cited in the media.

In his book titled ‘The Tragedy of the Elysee: Inside the Hell of Macron’s Five-Year Terms’, Le Parisien journalist Olivier Beaumont claims that the president uses “industrial amounts”amounts of perfume on a daily basis.

Well hasn’t this been a fun start to the trading week! A proper bath of blood here on Asian markets after the epic volatility from Friday on Wall Street as it looks like all the 2024 gains will be wiped out as the US at least will enter a bear market. All risk markets are

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Peter Dutton has ditched his plan to force Canberra's public servants to work from the office five days a week after the policy proved unpopular with voters — particularly women — telling Australians "we have listened”...

I find myself temporarily lonesome in the house for the next two weeks. Jane's down in Sydney for work, and both kids are travelling overseas together. So it’s just me, the dogs, the cats, and all the manfood I can eat.

Talk about claptrap. ABC. Peter Dutton has defended waiting till now to promise to bring Darwin Port back under Australian control, rather than acting when the Coalition was in government, because the national security advice has changed since he was defence minister. Both major parties have vowed to end Landbridge’s 99-year lease on the port,

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Australian politics today is very different to what it was even ten years ago, but the shift in the partisan make-up of the country has been a story decades in the making. For today’s post I’m going to recount and update statistics about how Australia has shifted from a strong two-party system into the fragmented multi-party system we have today.

The story of the declining major party vote begins a long time ago, even though for much of this history the House of Representatives remained almost exclusively a contest between Labor and the Coalition parties (Liberal and Country/Nationals).

The EPBC returned an answer in just a month saying the NSW project will come under its jurisdiction.

Of all the commodities, iron ore has so far held up the best post-tariffs. This appears to be a function of the long-established Pavlovian response that economic shocks equal more construction stimulus and iron ore demand in China. But is that the case this time? China has never successfully weathered a recessionary economic shock without

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Last week, the ABC published the following table showing Australia’s most valuable goods exports: Since Australia doesn’t manufacture much anymore, mining, energy, and agricultural goods comprise virtually all of Australia’s goods exports. All of these exports are produced in regional Australia, not the capital cities. The only services exports of note are education and tourism-related.

Renewables industr

The bath of blood on risk markets continues to spill over with Wall Street falling 6% across the board on Friday night with more carnage expected here on the open of the new trading week in Asia. The latest US jobs figures came in better than expected but were roundly ignored as everything but the

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