Santos beat greenwashing claims in court, and while the ruling exposes the limits of climate law, the battle for climate justice and accountability is just ramping up.
A flurry of new solar and battery projects has appeared in AEMO's grid management system, driving home just how popular the two technologies have been with investors. But in the EPBC queue, it's all about wind.
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In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, breaks down the rise of HALO companies — the resilient, pricing-power businesses proving largely “immune” to AI disruption — exploring why they continue to outperform, what protects their economics from technological shocks, and how investors can position around this defensive theme. Watch the episode
One of Australia's fiercest defenders of nature and biodiversity has thrown his hat into the ring to become the first CEO of the National Environmental Protection Agency.
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The tsunami of auction activity is beginning to weigh on home values in Melbourne and Sydney. On Thursday, Cotality released its final auction results for last weekend, which showed that the national clearance rate declined to 62.0%, down from 63.3% the prior week and 66.1% three weekends ago. The decline in the national clearance rate
Roll the tape. Iron-ore giant Fortescue is speeding up its switch to green iron because CEO Dino Otranto told investors that the Pilbara must help China decarbonise steelmaking in order to stay competitive. Otranto said on the company’s earnings call that work on Fortescue’s Green Metal project at Christmas Creek is going well and that
The worst treasurer since Jim Cairns, and the dumbest since Wayne Swan is certainly not the unluckiest. Having squandered incredible national income windfalls as record inflation outbreaks, slaughtering real incomes, Treasurer Jim “chicken” Chalmers is ready to ride another unlooked-for river of gold flowing into his backside. This time, it is literally a river of
Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, on China’s record solar and wind build, and why clean energy is now driving more than a third of the country’s economic growth.
About a third of practicing American Christians say the spiritual advice they get from artificial intelligence is just as good as that from a pastor, with practicing Christians more likely to agree with this notion than non-practicing Christians and non-Christians, according to new research from the Barna Group.
Business Council of Australia Chief Executive Bran Black delivered a keynote address to the Universities Australia Solutions Summit that repeated the same old myths and fallacies about the vital importance that international students play in the Australian economy. Is international education a major economic pillar? Black claims that international education is a major economic pillar:
TME with the charts. NVDA blowout revenues were not good enough. Semiconductors are flirting with a top. Could the next AI victim be capex spend and hardware? Open AI cutting investment was a bad sign. If so, watch out for the red-hot semi-bourses in Asia. Sell semis and buy software? How big are those cojonies?
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Victoria has legislated a target to source 95% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2035. This is one of the most ambitious renewable energy targets in Australia and globally, designed to accelerate the state’s transition away from cheap brown coal toward cleaner energy sources, such as wind and solar. The Renewable Energy (Jobs and
As early works – and a legal challenge – get underway for Marinus Link, the cost to consumers of the existing interconnector, Basslink, has been determined.
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The Alberta electricity company Capital Power, which is developing a large new AI data centre in the province powered by natural gas, lobbied the federal Mark Carney government dozens of times last year to eliminate clean energy regulations, DeSmog has learned.
Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company
The Grattan Institute argues that NSW could make 1 million additional homes feasible to build by copying Victoria’s planning rules that allow terraces and three‑storey apartments “as of right” across most residential zones. This would remove councils’ ability to block low‑rise infill housing that already meets clear design standards. Victoria now allows terraces, townhouses, and