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The Australian has published fascinating data showing the extraordinary rise in home values this century. As illustrated below, house prices have soared by between 227% (Darwin) and 570% (Adelaide) over the past 25 years: Unit prices have experienced similarly explosive growth, rising by between 163% (Darwin) and 600% (Adelaide) over 25 years: Cotality’s latest housing

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Asian share markets are generally still doing well as we head into the low volume Christmas period with local shares the standout on a somewhat dovish outlook from the RBA minutes released today. This has seen the Australian dollar continue its bounceback on a slightly weaker USD above the 66 cent level. Oil markets remain

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Quick disclaimer. I run ethical funds. We let clients add or subtract ethical (and investment) themes from all our portfolios. But I’ve never been a fan of the industry. Seven years ago, I argued that the booming industry of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ratings was more akin to marketing magic than investment medicine. At the

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Electricity prices can be kept near today’s levels in a post-coal National Electricity Market, but need a system where batteries become the dominant price-forming technology.

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We discuss some of the major events of the past year - the dominance of batteries, the emergence of solar-battery hybrids, the hassles for wind and transmission, and the conundrum of EVs.

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SEC to build state's first publicly owned wind farm, that will be the first to be built in a pine plantation and the first to overlook a former coal plant and mine.

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One of Australia's leading battery storage developers says Australia will likely not reach 82 per cent renewables until 2034.

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In the long history of financial markets, there have been all manner of hot assets; in the Netherlands in the 1630s, it was tulip bulbs, in the 1720s Britain, it was shares in the South Sea Company, and today the hottest asset on the market is anything to do with AI. In the United States,

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Wall Street and other risk markets are drifting into holiday mode which means not a lot of selling and small gains here and there although silver and gold are making record highs while the USD is getting sold down the river. Defense stocks helped Wall Street overnight while Yen stabilised somewhat after a big move

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From the Market Ear: Waiting SPX remains stuck inside the range that has been in place since mid-September. We aren’t getting too excited until we break out, either way. Also stuck NASDAQ continues trading the boring range that has been in place for months. Short term range support: 25000, resistance 26000. Big range support: 24000,

Alex Joiner from IFM Investors published the following chart on Twitter (X) last week, showing the explosive growth in Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM), particularly since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Joiner noted that as of Q4 2000, it had taken 12 years of NOM to add 1,000,000 people to the population. As of

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The absolute madness of the proposed new food rules.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2025

Most of what you eat is sausages. I mean, if we’re going to get literal about it. Sausage derives from the Latin salsicus, which means “seasoned with salt”. You might think of a sausage as a simple thing, but on this reading it is everything and nothing, a Borgesian meta-concept that retreats as you approach it.