I noted yesterday that Australia’s East Coast is currently enjoying a flush of wholesale energy price relief, as a cool summer delivers cheaper, less frequently used gas-fired power to set the price for power. The result has been the cheapest quarter of wholesale power since Albo’s energy vandals won government in 2022. If we don’t
I reported earlier in the week on the massive rise in bridging visas, which has been driven by former international students. As illustrated above, the number of bridging visas on issue ballooned by 201,300 between Q3 2019 and Q3 2025. The Attorney-General’s department recently reported an “unprecedented surge” in appeals over student visa refusals, which
Friday is “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,” a general strike supported by Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders, Democratic lawmakers and community activists.
The ferrous jaws remain far too wide. Scuttlebutt is negatory. Australia’s Fortescue posted a 2% rise in second-quarter iron ore shipments, supported by the resilient performance of its Iron Bridge project alongside an uptick in output from its hematite operations. It maintained its forecast for fiscal 2025/26 shipments, with quarterly iron ore shipments remaining at
Rooftop solar reaches remarkable 117 pct of state demand in Australia's most advanced renewable state, requiring the biggest battery to be put on standby.
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Via Judo Bank. Flash Australia Composite PMI Output Index: 55.5 (Dec: 51.0) Flash Australia Services PMI Business Activity Index: 56.0 (Dec: 51.1) Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI: 52.4 (Dec: 51.6) To cope with rising workloads, Australian firms hired additional staff at the start of the new year. That said, the overall rate of employment growth softened
Wall Street continued the TACO trade overnight led by tech stocks while a series of high inflation data in the US failed to get the USD moving higher with all undollars continuing the structural “off-America” risk trade with the Australian dollar making another new high. Gold surged again alongside silver while oil prices fellback and
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A third battery project proposed for the town of Collie in Western Australia has entered the federal government’s environmental approval queue ,which would see the construction of a 66-megawatt (MW) solar farm combined with a 200 MW battery energy storage system (BESS). Collie remains the heart of the state’s declining coal industry, but it is […]
A sweeping new bill to combat antisemitism, hate and extremism was rushed through federal parliament this week with minimal scrutiny and major rule-of-law flaws. Its vague definitions, retrospective reach and expanded executive powers risk undermining rights, due process and democratic accountability.
Miller is a grotesque figure granted power, a carnival barker of repression whose racism operates as projection: a deep, unresolved self-loathing displaced outward and weaponized.
DXY slumped post-Greenland deal. The Davos speech of the American madman was an obnoxious mess about “Iceland”. Hard to see how DXY can flourish as POTUS loses his mind. AUD had a multi-sigma day to remember after the strong jobs numbers. Without CNY help. But with gold’s help. No Greenland dump for gold. This is
As the hypersonic penetrators broke through the cloud layers, each was enveloped in a luminous plasma sheath, producing brief but violent flashes that momentarily illuminated the surrounding atmosphere. These flashes were not explosions in the conventional sense, but visual signatures of extreme velocity, friction, and compression as the warheads tore through dense air at hypersonic speed.
Like Australia, Canada experienced a record surge of immigration once borders opened following the Covid-19 pandemic, with the nation adding around 1.2 million people in 2023 alone. This record spike in immigration caused a slew of problems for Canada, including severe housing shortages, skyrocketing rents, productivity and infrastructure stress, services inflation, and rising youth unemployment.
Asian share markets are generally higher across the region with only Chinese shares taking a breather as markets react to YATT (Yet Another Taco Trade) from Trump as all is forgiven over Greenland at Davos. Of course the “America-off” strategy is still in play as a broader trend with more news of Treasuries being sold
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Global ocean heat content increased by approximately 23 zetajoules (ZJ) in 2025, roughly 40 times annual global primary energy consumption. This is not good.
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