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Some academic claims we know what will be in Albo’s new gas reservation policy. While full details are yet to be announced, we know there will be three main elements: a mandatory reservation volume, a gas security incentive, and competitive domestic pricing. The mandatory reservation will require gas producers to reserve a portion of their

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Alarmist headlines in mainstream media over Victoria's energy transition bare little resemblance to the auditor general report they said they were quoting.

Wall Street had another slow session overnight with an unclear picture of the US labour market weighing on high expectations that the Fed will cut in next week’s FOMC meeting. Bond markets sold off while the USD was relatively steady after an initial drop on the jobless claims print with the Australian dollar holding just

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Australia’s response to Japan’s rhetoric has been framed as a test of loyalty, but the outrage is largely media-driven. Caution in foreign policy is not betrayal – it is a rational defence of national interest.

Fred Zhang

When foreign policy becomes domestic theatre

The past five years have witnessed arguably the worst rental crisis in modern Australian history. According to Cotality, nationally advertised rents soared by 43.8% in the five years to Q3 2025. This meant that the typical tenant household seeking to rent the median advertised home would need to spend $10,600 more annually than they would

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A four hour big battery proposed for next to a key connection point linking the Victoria and South Australia grids has been waved through the federal environmental assessment process. 

The Anti-Fascist I Was Raised to Be I am ANTIFA. Or so says President Donald Trump, branding me and millions like me as terrorists in [...]

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth Leo Tolstoy’s book, War and Peace, which has over 580,000 words. It is posted below… The video shows 86 villages and towns that Russia has captured since September 2025. This video illustrates why the retired US military officers who appear on mainstream media to analyze the war in Ukraine are a bunch of clowns.

New report argues any renewables project backed by the federal government should have to clearly demonstrate community benefits.

This seems to have passed the forex market by. Goldman. The PBOC’s Pledged Supplementary Lending (PSL) program resumed expansion in November by a net increase of RMB25.4bn, ending its contraction since March 2024. This implies that the central bank may have approved a full-year quota for 2025 (as it did in late 2023), although the

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As late as the final months of October, the Sydney auction market was still riding high, with its 4-week moving average clearance rate still sitting significantly higher than the same time last year. But in the weeks since, it has fallen back to earth, now sitting just 1.6% higher than at the same point last

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Wednesday’s Q3 national accounts release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported fairly modest real per capita household consumption growth of only 0.1% for the quarter and 1.0% annually. The national accounts also reported a lift in the household savings rate to 6.4%: Viewed in isolation, this data would have soothed RBA concerns that

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Australia's main grid reached 50% renewables for second month in a row, but in W.A. - the world's biggest isolated grid - the result was even better.