Mocking a prime minister for wishing Chinese Australians a happy new year says less about foreign policy than about how national identity is being weaponised in domestic politics.
The US–Israel war on Iran is a direct breach of the UN Charter and a blow to international law. But the attempt to impose global hegemony and hollow out the UN will ultimately fail in a multipolar world determined to resist domination.
Multiple commanders across all branches of the US military have offered a fundamentalist Christian explanation for the attack on Iran, describing President Donald Trump as the harbinger of the Second Coming and the conflict itself as a “signal fire”for Armageddon, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has reported.
Australia’s housing market has never been this expensive. According to Shane Oliver, chief economist at AMP, home prices nationally are tracking at their highest level ever relative to wages and household disposable incomes: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has already delivered one 0.25% interest rate hike, with the interest rate futures market expecting at
South Korean car and EV maker invests nearly 9 trillion won in an “innovation hub” to advance robotics, artificial intelligence, hydrogen technology and solar energy.
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Another big battery proposal heads to Queensland planning purgatory following requests to call in the project from local council and community.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that there was an imminent threat from Iran.
Within hours of the US launching ‘Operation Epic Fury’ against Iran, Tehran’s forces unleashed retaliatory strikes against American military bases in the Middle East, killing four US troops and destroying billions of dollars’ worth of equipment.
A rule change request from Energy Networks Australia seeks to shift some projects out of the onerous public cost-benefit test.
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Reducing oil dependence and boosting renewables and electric transport is often framed as climate policy. But it is also vital to energy security and national security.
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The Australian electricity grid has closed out the summer of 2025-26 with a month of new renewable generation records – not from solar, but from the nation's wind assets.
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The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda. Propagandists like “Dr Demography” Liz Allen are regular mouthpieces on the pro-Big Australia migration circuit, as are the ANU Migration Hub’s Peter McDonald and Alan Gamlen. Jill Sheppard, a senior lecturer at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations,
Australian renewables pipeline “running laps” around net zero targets. It’s the pace that is lacking
New data on Australia's solar, wind and battery development pipeline confirms that the constraint has never been ambition or opportunity, but the pace of delivery.
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charts from TME. Both skew and volatility are suggesting bearish pressure on stocks. Skew is especially bearish. Yet we refuse to fall. It’s the same for NDX. CDX, which is an index of credit default swaps, is also showing plenty of pressure. This is not bearish. Bond volatility is likewise beginning to MOVE, another bearish
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