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The Élysée Palace has derided as “disinformation” claims being promoted by Kremlin figures that Emmanuel Macron took cocaine with Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, and Keir Starmer while on a train travelling to Kyiv.

Norway oil giant on the verge of terminating huge US offshore wind project due to delays controversially imposed by Donald Trump’s administration.

US-based battery storage developer says Australia has been largely shielded from the disruption in the US market caused by Donald Trump's tariff war with China.

The algorithm knows me, which is why it served up this piece of sports writing about caffeine.

It was just past 11:20 a.m. on a Monday in New York City when the caffeine began to take hold. My head buzzed. My stomach sloshed. I had felt so confident just a couple of hours earlier. Now I felt defeated.

I was no Dan Campbell.

According to the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP), Victoria has the nation’s lowest level of social housing as a proportion of the overall housing stock. Public housing in Victoria has slumped from a high of around 4% in 1994 to a low of about 2.4% currently. The figure rises to around 2.9% when community housing

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Let’s take a walk down memory lane. The date is 13 August 2019, six months before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Australia. Infrastructure Australia’s (IA) Australian Infrastructure Audit was released, warning that $40 billion a year of infrastructure investment is needed to catch up with Australia’s voracious population growth. Otherwise, productivity and living standards will

Backer of two massive green hydrogen projects in Australia says a "breakthrough" in modular design could cut the costs of the technology by up to 20 per cent.

Westpac with the note. Westpac Consumer Sentiment Index up 2.2% to 92.1 in May. • Index recovers about a third of April’s tariff-related fall. • Solid rebound in views on finances led by sharemarket rally, lower fuel prices. • Benign inflation shores up consumer expectations for interest rate cuts. Consumer sentiment has recovered just over

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Last month, Ben Phillips from ANU’s Centre for Social Research published a spurious analysis claiming that “lower migration wont ‘free up housing'”, because “as population increases dwelling numbers also increase”, and “with fewer migrants we’d also have fewer dwellings”. Phillips’ analysis was comprehensively demolished on the grounds that: Very few migrants work in construction. Therefore, migrants

Dumped cabinet minister Ed Husic believes speaking out on the conflict in Gaza may have contributed to his demotion as he fired shots at factional bosses behind the decision. 

The former industry and science minister lashed Richard Marles, with the move to ditch him thought to have been signed off by the Victorian right faction leader and deputy prime minister.

Alan Kohler published a stinging critique of the Australian economy, which he described as a “basket case”: Productivity is declining and housing is unaffordable. Economic growth depends entirely on government spending and immigration, and high immigration has not been matched with enough infrastructure and housing to support it; as a result, Australia is divided, defensive,

SunDrive CEO says collaboration with Chinese solar giants will be crucial for Australian companies seeking to make it in the booming global PV industry.

Planners made a mistake with the size of two major transmission projects, but have an opportunity to get it right for VNI West, and unlock vast areas of onshore wind.