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With the implementation of the Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers just over a week away, social media is filled with promotional material from the Albanese government crowing about how their achievement will help prospective home buyers. It’s certainly true that some first home buyers will benefit because they will be able

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From the Market Ear: Tech spending Without tech spending the US economy would be close/in a recession. DB points out: 1. Good news: The AI super-cycle — with NVIDIA effectively carrying the US economy — is offsetting demand (tariffs) and supply (immigration) shocks. 1. Bad news: The cycle can’t last without parabolic capex. With hyperscaler

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The Productivity Commission (PC) released its quarterly Bulletin, which explored the structural decline in Australia’s ‘capital deepening’, which has contributed significantly to the nation’s productivity malaise. “Labour productivity tends to increase when workers have more or better capital (such as computers and buildings) to work with, which is known as ‘capital deepening’”, PC Deputy Chair

BHP signs another massive and landmark deal to source "baseload renewables" from wind and battery storage to power its huge copper mines and smelters.

Trump’s record suggests that meetings with him frequently fail. Instead, Albanese has an important agenda to pursue at the UN in New York, and when dealing with the US better outcomes are more likely if Australia develops its own policies in its own interests.

Michael Keating

How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting?

The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  20th September 2025

Queensland to invest $48 million on its only pumped hydro project as it looks at options for new projects.

New Australian gold mine aims for at least 80 pct renewable power over year and has already run the site for 84 hours with the "engine off".

Australia's first eight-hour battery project is now registered and ready to start its commissioning process.

Used to be I couldn’t be bothered with print-on-demand for most of my indie-published stuff. It was way too difficult to manage the content management systems, and there’s no economies of scale with a print run of one, so it was also super spendy.

But the CMS, especially at Amazon, got better, and as trade published books got more expensive (thirty-five bucks for a trade paperback, are you fucking kidding me!?) the numbers started to line up.

Plus, there are just some people who prefer paper and are willing to pay for it. So I revisited the process a while ago and started experimenting.

Market operator confirms new peaks for renewables in recent days, but says coal power will need to be further reduced to allow higher levels of renewables.

While the focus of Australia’s political policymakers remains on issues largely external to the nation’s rental crisis, more and more data continues to emerge pointing to the impact of the failure of successive governments, which is worsening circumstances by the day. According to a recent report from News.com.au International students are overwhelming Australia’s asylum system with

In the final climactic battle between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Anakin says to Obi-Wan: “You turned her (his wife Padme) against me!” “You have done that yourself!” Obi-Wan replies. As the saga within the Coalition over Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments regarding Indian voters and the Albanese government

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