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DXY bounced with solid US jobs. AUD did not. Lead boots plod on. Gold gets more worrying by the day. Metals reversed. The big bear is not over. EM signs of life. But yields weighing. No bueno for BBB. Stocks only go up. US jobs were solid. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 147,000 in

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A new study will see how households and businesses without solar can buy it from households that produce excess.

Farmers are turning to renewables like solar, batteries and electric machinery to cut costs and boost resilience.

The UK Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, has played a central role in spreading false intelligence and engaging in provocative actions aimed at escalating global conflicts, British whistleblower and investigative journalist for The Grayzone, Kit Klarenberg, has told RT.

Speaking to host Rick Sanchez on Thursday, Klarenberg said MI6 was at the forefront of efforts to push the West deeper into the Ukraine conflict.

Pipeline company APA Group has said Beetaloo Basin gas is necessary to supply the domestic market. A new analysis by Market Forces suggests most is destined for export.

The St Louis Fed recently did an interesting AI survey that suggested the benefits of AI are large in certain areas but far from uniform. For each generative AI user, we computed the percentage of working hours saved as the ratio of time saved in the previous week to hours worked in that same week.

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Wokey has been trying to turn Australia into a Chinese satrap for a few years now. It is little more than jingoistic and self-serving ignorance as it bristles about losing Big Tech revenues, but it’s currently in tune with local Trump Derangement Syndrome, so it is more dangerous than usual. Wokey can barely contain itself

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The trend of a falling major party vote isn’t quite the same in Tasmania as it is on the mainland.

While the major parties maintained their dominance for longer in federal politics, and in most states, as far back as 1989 we saw the Greens poll 17% of the primary vote.

From 1989 until 2021, the total size of the major party vote didn’t shift by that much. While the Greens have occasionally polled higher than their 1989 result, it remains one of their higher results. And the votes for the two major parties have usually stayed within the same range.

One of the narratives put forward for high levels of immigration into Australia is that migrants are required to build sorely needed homes. At face value it seems to make sense. After all, we have a housing deficit that AMP’s Shane Oliver puts at up to 300,000 homes (once household demographic factors are added in)

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Those who enjoy fables are in luck. The nuclear associatives have always proclaimed that nuclear power means independence. Humor. France has just been expelled from Niger, and our impeccable lobby is forced to sell itself to Kazakhstan, at Putin's behest, to obtain its uranium. Putin, the master of the energy game.

French nuclear power in Putin's hands

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