Join us in this week’s podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, and special guest economist Cameron Murray unpack the downsides of superannuation as a pension supplement—and explore the broader social issues it creates. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen wants to double down on the rollout of offshore wind farms, ­renewables, and the phase-out of coal-fired power plants. Bowen claims that Labor’s landslide election victory, where it only secured 34.7% of the primary vote, was a rejection by voters of anti-­climate action “noise”. “Peter Dutton described the

Tasmania's hydro output hit a record low share last week, as the state shifts its trading strateg

Our top civil servants are being paid exceptionally well by international standards and much more than our Prime Minister, let alone the ministers to whom they are answerable. Time for change, Rex Patrick says.

The latest batch of data suggests that Australia’s labour market continues to ease gradually. SEEK’s latest employment report shows that job ads continue to trend lower and applications per job ad higher: SEEK’s data continues to point to a rising unemployment rate: As Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro shows below, all measures of job ads

My last few booth maps have been focused on the non-classic races – the Greens in Melbourne, and the teals in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. But a big part of the story was Labor routing the Coalition in traditional urban marginal seats, particularly those on the edges of cities, with the ultimate symbol being Peter Dutton’s defeat in Dickson.

So today I’m looking at two groups of three LNP marginal seats – three on the northern outskirts of Brisbane, and three to the south. In each of these clusters, two of the three seats were lost to Labor, with the third seat holding on.

I found this bit on ZDNet about a Harvard study on genAI use kind of interesting. Boiled down, it says generative AI in the workplace improves people’s work but erodes their motivation and engagement. There are numbers! Apparently. the psychological toll from a loss of agency and control over cognitively demanding tasks results in an 11% drop in intrinsic motivation and a 20% increase in boredom.