Big battery projects including stand-alone BESS and solar-hybrids dominated investment activity in the final quarter of 2025, featuring in 16 deals across financing, M&A and PPAs.
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Former foreign minister Bob Carr has lamented the Albanese government’s strong backing for the United States and Israel’s strikes on Iran, pointing to simmering discontent within parts of Labor about the party’s seeming lack of interest in upholding international law.
Camilla Hamilton from Cogency explains the importance of research, listening, and good coffee when consulting with communities on renewables. Plus news of the week.
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Thousands of mourners have filled the streets of the southern Iranian city of Minab for the funeral of 168 schoolgirls and staff killed in an attack on an elementary school on the opening day of the US-Israeli strikes.
Images from the funeral show row upon row of small, shallow graves – the final resting places of children aged mostly between seven and 12.
The Albanese government has signalled that it will scale back the capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the May budget, most likely from 50% to 33% or 25%. It has also signalled that it will limit the number of investment properties that an individual can negatively gear. However, Greens senator Nick McKim says the 50%
Even the missteps of the American Madman can have a positive aspect. China still relies less on foreign energy sources than most large nations, but it has vulnerabilities worth exposing from time to time. This degree of dependence is far lower than that of major European industrial nations like Germany, Italy, and Spain, as well
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released national accounts data for the December quarter, which printed headline real GDP growth of 0.8% over the quarter and 2.6% year-on-year. The result beat expectations of 2.2% growth. Thanks to backward revisions, per capita GDP has now grown for four consecutive quarters, rising by 0.9% in 2025, the
Charts from TME. Like acne. AI bubbles are bursting everywhere. An oil shock is almost uniquely well-placed to smash tech because it causes a spike in duration, which hammers growth stocks on long-term ROE horizons. We already know that the Sag7 are kaput. Do you like your KOSPI served crispy? Who’s next? The cause is,
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The latest quarterly dwelling completions data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that over the first 15 months of the National Housing Accord, 81,000 (27%) fewer homes were constructed than required to meet the government’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years, commencing July 1, 2024: Out of the major markets,
Australian growth will be okay today, by all accounts. Forecasters have the December quarter coming in at 0.7-1.1% supported, largely, by, you guessed it, Albo’s rampant spending. Despite a significant decline in public infrastructure work (-3.8% qtr), public investment increased 0.9% qtr in Q4. Strength was centred at the federal level, where federal public corporations’
Demonstrating, once again, the power of clean energy in the face of strong political headwinds, the US has chalked up its largest single year of new battery additions on record.
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Two weeks ago, I flew to Sydney to record an SBS Insight special examining the immigration debate in Australia. The scissor reel below showcases my three appearances on the episode: SBS did a competent job presenting my arguments with minimal editing. But, as with all such shows, I would have said more if I could.
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New photo requirements now in place for installations under the Cheaper Home Batteries scheme in a bid to boost safety and labelling.
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Asian LNG prices are rising at 20% per day and hit $22.50 overnight. Locally, gas prices are falling, apparently owing to unusually weak NEM demand. The fuel mix suggests weak demand owing to good weather and even weaker gas usage. This is great timing, but Australia’s worst minister, the Mad King, is already encouraging the
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A whopping $34 billion is expected to flow to the biggest economy in the nation with renewable energy in the driver's seat to lead the economic charge.
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