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I've been getting some awesome briefing from my O Group. Dirk sent me a couple of maps of occupied Europe to help keep everything straight, including a suggestion for corraling the Scandinavian states into the Western alliance. A suggestion I might take up.

Gen Havoc, meanwhile has been getting down to business with a useful mark up of thte Soviet advance.

I'll reconcile the geogrpahies in the draft.

Prices were mostly unchanged except in Victoria where futures prices jumped 5% amid talk of first big coal closure.

The first installation of the revolutionary GCL solar storage battery has taken place in Brisbane this week at Instyle Solar of Brendale.

Solar Analytics, Wattwatchers lend technology and expertise to international effort to install smart solar on world leaders' rooftops.

Grattan Institute’s latest report suggest rapid expansion of renewable capacity means higher electricity prices. But is that true?

South Australia’s electricity shock exposed an emerging conflict between Australia’s climate policies and the demands of our energy market.

Muslims note that The Bible used by Catholic Christians has extra books than the one used by Protestant Christians. They then claim that the inclusion of these extra books by Catholics constitute proof that the message The Bible has been corrupted. Specifically Muslims state that Christians have deliberately altered The Bible in order to conceal the truth about the supreme prophethood of Mohammed and to fabricate claims about The Deity of Jesus.

 Monday 26 September 2016 Somewhere along the way Australia again followed America’s lead with the arrival of ‘opinion’.  As staff were sacked, decreasing the ability of newspaper journalists to investigate and research they began the concept of ‘opinion writing’. Radio had been doing it for 30 years or so but the right of radio decided…

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is currently  investigating the proposed acquisition of APN News & Media Limited (APN)'s Australian Regional Media division (ARM) by News Corporation (News) – with the aim of establishing what if any the impact of the proposed acquisition will have on on competition, and whether it will: lower the quality of content, especially local news content; reduce the choices available to readers for local news content; increase newspaper prices and/or increase the price of advertising, especially in newspapers in Queensland and northern New South Wales.As to lowering the quality of conte

By Ad astra When you reflect on the dilapidated state of federal politics; when you question how on earth we have become encumbered with so many appalling policies, do you ever ask: ‘Why is it so?’ I do often. And when I do, one culprit emerges over and again. Who is it? Who in the…

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When Greg Hunt moved on from the Environment portfolio, he smugly told us his job was done.  He had successfully destroyed carbon pricing and replaced it with his Direct Action Plan which he assured us has achieved greater emission reductions for a fraction of the price. What a load of bullshit. In May, the government…

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If the Reserve Bank's official cash rate is 1.5 per cent and home loans are 4.4 per cent, why are credit card rates as high as 20 per cent?

It was the question that had the new Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe stumped.

On Thursday he confessed before the Parliament's economics committee: "I wish I knew the answer to that".

"If you ask the same questions in your subsequent hearings, I will be interested in the answers," he added. His usual reply would have been that given time competition will sort it out. But it doesn't, for credit cards.