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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DXY is a one-armed bricklayer in Tehran. To the moon! North Asia has buckled. AUD crashed overnight, then recovered about half as local fundies scramble for Sag7 hedges. Oil pumped and dumped, forgetting that the quickest way to end this war is to deliver an energy shock to the Trump TACO. Gold printed a terrifying
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In this world, there are a few things that are truly certain: death, taxes, and the fact that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. But in Australia, there is one thing that can be added to that ancient list: claims that the big banks are gouging their customers, particularly when
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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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