The Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Integrated System Plan (ISP) is a roadmap for transitioning Australia’s energy system to net zero emissions by 2050. It outlines the necessary investments in generation, storage, and transmission to meet consumer needs and government renewable energy and emissions targets. AEMO’s ISP was built on the fantastical assumption that Australian
In my palaeontological peregrinations, I occasionally refer to papers that may be everything from months to nearly two centuries old. For instance, one of the seminal papers in the early study of trilobites was a paper by Ignaz Hawle & August Corda entitled ‘Prodrom einer Monographie der böhmischen Trilobiten’ (Prodrome of a monograph on Bohemian trilobites)1. Searching the web for the two authors’ names shows how common references are to this paper in much more recent publications on trilobites, not just from Bohemia but from all around the world.
Bob Katter claims Gaza refugees are part of Hamas, as the Queensland MP continues to position himself as one of Parliament’s most outspoken defenders of Israel. Stephanie Tran reports.
The government is trying to set us against our ecosystems. We must resist this Trumpian gambit.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th October 2025
Crucial to the government’s war on nature is the “cauldron principle”. If a species is to be blamed for “holding up development”, it must be one you might find in a witch’s cauldron. The culprits are never dormice, otters, water voles, nightingales, turtle doves or orchids, widely considered cute or beautiful. They are bats, newts, snails and spiders.
On the Afghan–Uzbek border, the first thing you notice is the noise. Trains, trucks, and buses move in both directions almost without pause. For the first time in decades, the hum of trade has replaced the sound of gunfire.
How trade is winning the war that armies couldn’t
Trade replaces war on the CIS’s southern frontier
By Timofey Bordachev
Man, it turns out writing a book in less than seven years is really hard work and takes quite a bit of time each day. Not seven years, of course, but quite a few hours every day if you want to deliver it in less than seven years
Asian share markets have paused their recent strong rebound on the Trump TACO trade as not much news around the traps keeping most risk markets in a holding pattern. Currency markets are seeing more strength return to the USD which has been taking back its recent lost ground against the majors with some moves higher
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Fortescue unveils huge new wind project, next to Gina Rinehart lease, to help eliminate fossil fuels
The market share of Australia’s illegal tobacco trade is estimated to have risen from 29.6% in 2023 to 61% in 2025, according to tobacco industry sources. The growing cost of firebombings and ram-raids targeting tobacconists is reflected in the rising cost of premiums in the retailer sector. Master Grocers Australia’s CEO Martin Stirling notes that
The ferrous complex is struggling to keep its head above water as steel production remains too high, inventories are bulging, and prices keep falling. The market for iron ore is, I suspect, clinging to hope that Beijing will stimulate again. But anti-involution is crashing commodity-intensive capex activity. Only tech is booming. If Beijing sticks to
