Federal Labor's Cheaper Home Batteries rebate needs urgent tweaks to its settings and eligibility criteria, peak industry body warns, to avoid a "boom-bust cycle."
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An article about wind droughts published on the front page of the Weekend Australian is not quite the "gotcha" moment author Chris Uhlmann claims.
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Financial markets are now tipping that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will deliver a 25 bp increase in the official cash rate in 2026, most likely in the second half of the year. This view is based on the acceleration of trimmed mean inflation, as well as recent solid domestic demand reported in the
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Australia’s Treasurer of propaganda was back at it again, boasting on Twitter (X) that Labor has delivered a big rise in housing supply since being elected in mid-2022: The actual data on net dwelling additions (i.e., dwelling completions minus demolitions) from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) paints a far less rosy picture. It shows
In recent weeks, various polls have revealed a Coalition, but more particularly a Liberal party well and truly entrenched in an existential crisis. In the history of Australian federal politics in the postwar era, a major party facing a disastrous defeat at the ballot box generally had time to lick its wounds and reflect on
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has revealed that the federal government’s energy bill subsidies will not be extended next year. The $75 a quarter reduction for all households, which began in mid-2023 but was twice extended to alleviate cost-of-living pressures, will expire in December as scheduled. The bill subsidies have cost taxpayers almost $7 billion. “This was
Of all the nations in the world, Australia has one of the strangest sets of geopolitical relationships. On one hand, Australia has been a key U.S. ally since the American entry into World War 2, with the key battles of the Coral Sea and Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) fought to secure shipping lanes to Australia within
The AFR’s Luke Kinsella is the latest commentator to warn about Australian real wages, which have collapsed back to 2011 levels and face a painfully slow recovery amid sluggish productivity growth. Kinsella notes that ordinary Australians are struggling with higher costs for essentials like housing, food, and energy. As a result, rising living costs are
Renewables deliver nearly two thirds of power fed to grid in Germany, not including self-consumption
It’s decision day at Martin Place as the Reserve Bank of Australia meets to pull or not to pull – that is the question – the interest rate level. This waiting has seen the Australian dollar lift out of its recent malaise and hit a new monthly high against USD: Of course this volatility always
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A lot of people would love to know how the electoral map would change if the parliament was expanded.
We’ve already been able to get some idea of what might happen by looking back at the historical experience from the 1948-49 and 1983-84 expansions. But the political system has changed since 1984, as has the map.
So I wanted to try drawing my own map, attempting as best as I can to draw sensible boundaries that fit within population constraints, and then examine what those maps would mean.
Overnight action on stock markets was muted given the selloff in bonds across most sovereign markets with Treasuries falling back following hawkish comments from all sides on inflationary pressures. It appears the Fed may soon adopt the cautiously hawkish approach going into 2026, even after a pre-Christmas rate cut, inline with other central banks which
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After a dizzying year of global upheaval, this reflection looks back on writing as resistance – against war, media failure, imperial power and silence – and why truth-telling still matters heading into 2026.