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I know that not a huge proportion of Americans know what is going on beyond the borders of the US, and this was brought home to me recently, when I was reading something about the massive No Kings protests in myriad cities and town across the US. One source I read estimated that about 13 million people demonstrated. All this happened while Trump held his military parade in honour of his own birthday, at which something like a few thousand people showed up to watch, some of whom were even there to protest against Trump, or at least to separate the 250th anniversary of the army’s creation from Trump’s 79th birthday.

Committee wants review of connection rules after it took more than a week to allow a brand new battery designed to provide back up in midst of blackout to do its job.

Danish developer secures a $A130 million financing package for two new large-scale solar projects in Australia.

Protection should be the default state of the oceans.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th June 2025

I have been saying this a lot recently: “At last!” At last, a mainstream film bluntly revealing the plunder of our seas. At last, a proposed ban on bottom trawling in so-called “marine protected areas” (MPAs). At last, some solid research on seabed carbon and the vast releases caused by the trawlers ploughing it up. But still I feel that almost everyone is missing the point.

An election promise to implement a 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target abandoned by Northern Territory as it pushes for more mining and energy projects. 

"You're either the windscreen or the bug." Consumers lament as government and regulators try to fix rip-offs and mess around energy market offers.

Liberal MP Garth Hamilton has called for sweeping changes to the tax system, arguing that it needs to be inclusive and support modern families. His suggestions for reform include introducing lifetime deductions on tax rates for mothers, in recognition of the fact that they often have lower salaries when they return to the workforce. Hamilton

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ANZ with report. Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions declined 1.2% in the year ending March 2025, according to the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory. This follows a flat annual result over the year to December 2024. Excluding the land use, land use change and forestry4 (LULUCF) sector, annual emissions fell 1.0% in the year to March

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The cartel is back, baby. And so are ludicrous electricity prices. Bowen is the great fiddler. The Australian. The Albanese government’s planned overhaul of household electricity price caps could put small energy retailers surviving on razor-thin profit margins out of business. Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen confirmed the government would review the Default Market Offer

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The Market Ear on a rapidly exhausting market. Shorts stopped out Recent equity strength has been fueled by underweight positioning and a brutal short squeeze. But signs of relief are emerging — UBS reports the strongest hedge fund deleveraging since March, with sharp short covering. Nasdaq short interest is now in the 25th percentile, showing just

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Labor’s Powering Australia Plan claimed that it would cut NEM wholesale power rates by $11 per MWh (from $62 to $51) by 2025. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised RepuTex Energy’s analysis as “the most comprehensive modelling ever done for any policy by any ­opposition in Australia’s history since Federation”. Albanese also regularly claimed that Labor

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French nuclear giant to take majority interest in proposed pumped hydro project next to one of the last coal generators in NSW.

I’ve previously posted a number of times before about the dataset I have compiled of election results since 2004, adjusted for 2025 electoral boundaries.

Most recently, prior to the election, I specifically did a comparison of the 2007 and 2022 electoral map: two elections with similar two-party-preferred votes and a similar number of seats with a two-party-preferred majority for each major party.