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I have consistently cautioned that the state and federal governments’ plans to blanket our cities with high-rise apartments will not improve housing affordability. The reason is simple: it is too expensive to construct apartments. As a result, they cannot be delivered at a reasonable cost to buyers. Urbis highlighted the excessive cost of apartment development,

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The capital costs of wind energy have gone up. It shows Australia wasted its opportunity when the A$ was high and when other costs were much lower.

OUR DEMOCRACIES rely on voters. Voters have to make choices as to who or what ideas are going to represent these choices. Choices are made on various influences:

— what’s best for me?

— what’s best for the “community”

— I trust an ideology

— Party politics

— PROPAGANDA

PROPAGANDA is a funny beast as it can be the truth being spruiked or lies being promoted as truth.

How do we find out we are not lied to?

In February, on ABC’s Q&A, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated that the government was cutting immigration and relieving pressure on the housing market by reducing international student numbers. Albanese noted that the student visa system was being “abused”. This week, we learned that international student enrolments hit a record high of 839,200 in the year to

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Countries of the South Pacific have good reason to encourage China and other countries to assist them with infrastructure. And there is nothing that Australia should, or could, do about it.

But climate change is far more important

John Menadue

Climate change, not China, is the real threat in the South Pacific

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week released data on Australia’s residential housing stock, which was valued at a record $11.6 trillion in the second quarter of 2025, equivalent to $1,017,000 per dwelling. The following chart compares the value of Australia’s dwelling stock to the country’s GDP. It shows that the entire residential housing

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Russell Morris is an Australian singer-songwriter who has been composing, recording and performing music since the late 1960s. Some of his songs have been among my favourites since I was in my teens. He has recently completed his final tour, and we went to see his final concert of this last tour at the concert hall of the Sydney Opera House last Sunday1. The concert hall seats 2,600 people and it was booked out. Most of the people there were about our age, and I doubt there were more than a few dozen under the age of 40.

Premier Danielle Smith and U.S. President Donald Trump are weaponizing the powers of the state against wind and solar energy generation.

Cheap renewable electricity to communities hosting wind and solar projects could make the energy transition fairer – and faster.

Can the electricity grid handle more rooftop solar? Bigger home batteries, supported by the federal rebate, suggests the solar duck will largely disappear.

Queensland's grid emissions have fallen, thanks to more renewables, but its vast industry extracting and exporting fossil fuels has driven an alarming rise in emissions.

The little dog was not fussed

His master was mad but nonplussed

Screaming obscenities at the crossing crowd

While pushing a pram of recycled stuff

Smoking a butt in a vanishing white puff

Making a trotting mutt so most proud

The master was saving the whole planet 

On such important business taking a bet

For the mad ruler of the universe in Tel-Aviv

Was killing an inferior race he led us to believe