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Australia’s states often swing in different ways, with trends noticeable at the state level rather than just at the state or regional level. For this reason, I usually choose to measure 2PP results against the state result, rather than the national result.

At the 2010 federal election, the Coalition gained swings in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia, but Labor actually gained ground in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

As the Trump regime folds faster than a dodgy poor chair on its tariff tirade against China, risk sentiment is bouncing back across most but not all markets with US and European stocks surging overnight while the USD firmed against the undollars. However, bond markets remain in flux with the 10 year Treasury yield almost

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Nine days from the election, Peter Dutton still hasn't decided what sort of campaign he is running: The result: constant backflips on energy and climate.

The president is bringing out the differences between political cultures and traditions in Australia and the US, especially in attitudes towards what government can and should do.

Donald Trump is coming to mean many things for this nation’s political leaders and for the Australian people. Mad king, tariff tyrant, spoiler of world orders, trasher of international rules. And still a hero to some.

Senior opposition figure Andrew Hastie has warned Australia's long-standing military alliance with the United States faces uncertainty under President Donald Trump's "unpredictable" America First agenda.

The world's coral reefs are going through the most intense bleaching event ever recorded, with 84% of them now affected, scientific authorities announced on Wednesday.

The current crisis, the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, is more intense than the 2014-17 episode that caused some two-thirds of global reefs to experience the harmful whitening.

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that the 145 percent tariffs imposed on Chinese imports will eventually "come down substantially" while expressing optimism about future talks to reach a US-China trade deal, US media reported.

US says tariffs on China will drop ‘substantially’; expert warns Washington faces difficulties in achieving initial goals as bullying unsustainableBy Ma Jingjing

Global giant behind giga-scale solar farm that will help power aluminium smelter says Australia among best places in world to be "green and strongly competitive" at same time.

One developer has flipped a planned solar project with optional battery, into a proposed battery project with an optional solar.

They say that the fish rots from the head and never was a truer word spoken about the festering Australian Financial Review. Its rotten fishhead, Michael Stutchbury, today bewails the lies of politics by, you guessed it, lying. As Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy says, it was Liberal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg who agreed to pump up overall

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In June 2024, AMP chief economist Shane Oliver posted the following chart showing that Australia’s housing shortage was about to surpass 200,000 dwellings: Oliver explained via Twitter (X) that “underlying demographic demand (driven by strong population growth) continues to run well ahead of new housing supply (constrained by capacity and cost issues, etc.), and is

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OpenSolar's Sophie Wright on the mission to streamline solar businesses so that more money and time can be spent where it's most needed - putting panels on rooftops. Plus, the news of the week.

It is the unsinkable metal ore despite falling steel prices. Recent GDP data was OK but what’s coming isn’t. Goldman. Despite a sequential deceleration from last Q4, year-over-year real GDP growth came in at 5.4% in Q1, higher than consensus expectations. With exports jumping 12.4% yoy, industrial production climbing 7.7% yoy, and retail sales rising

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