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The most significant information in Wednesday’s monthly inflation indicator from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) was the sharp decline in housing inflation. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the easing in CPI rent inflation continued in January, with rents rising by only 0.3% over the month to be 5.8% higher year-on-year.

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Perth’s state library theatre was packed out on Tuesday night last week to hear climate and energy policies from the main political parties and from a community independent.

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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has put out a call for applications for a share of $46.3 million in grants to deploy community batteries across Australia.

House committee says nuclear cannot be deployed quickly enough to help Australia's climate targets, or to assist the transition for coal communities.

Domain is upset with Peter Dutton. Peter Dutton has made $30 million of property transactions across 26 pieces of real estate over 35 years, making him one of the country’s wealthiest-ever contenders for prime minister as the major parties battle to convince voters they can fix Australia’s housing affordability crisis. Since buying his first home

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By Stephen Saunders In America, Kamala Harris = word-salad is a national meme. Australia’s Harris of Demography has been at it again, garbling at great length for The Conversation.  Americans exercise certain democratic rights to roast Harris. But Allen, along with Abul Rizvi and Laura Tingle, exists in rarefied space as an immigration whisperer to

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The ferrous complex rolled over yesterday. Scuttlebutt is straightforward. A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is introducing a legislation to address the impact of Chinese-supported companies moving portions of their production to other countries to circumvent American duties. The legislation would also toughen anti-dumping rules. This comes after the U.S. announced 25% tariffs on all

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The Albanese government’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years remains hopelessly out of reach. On Tuesday, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) reported that new home sales increased by 4.1% in the month of January 2025, offsetting weaker sales in November and December 2024. While sales rebounded in January, the following chart from

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The Australian’s Judith Sloan argues that Labor’s $22.7 billion Future Made in Australia (FMIA) policy is badly planned and badly executed. Labor has promoted FMIA as a plan to create new jobs and opportunities by maximising the economic and industrial benefits of moving towards net zero emissions. Sloan argues that it is, in fact, a

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The Market Ear with the latest on the puke. That was quick SPX has gone from the upper part of the range to closing in on the lower part of the range in a few sessions. Note we are below the 100 day as of writing and RSI is at the most oversold levels in

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Sources say the oil and gas major is scrapping plans to ramp up renewable capacity 20-fold by 2030, returning instead to a focus on fossil fuels.