Solar and battery project proposed for central northern Victoria gets EPBC all-clear just four months after joining the queue.
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Nothing says election year like a big new push for division around renewables. In Victoria, the opposition Coalition and One Nation are getting busy courting votes.
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UNITED STATES Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave the green light to European leaders for a new era of colonialism.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Mr Rubio offered partnership between the US and Europe to recolonise the global South.
Rubio gives green light to new era of US-European colonialism
With less than five weeks to go until the South Australian election, the Opposition Liberal Party has announced a stamp duty concession to help older homeowners downsize. It is not a full exemption but a one‑off $15,000 discount on stamp duty for eligible buyers. The concessions would be available to South Australians aged 55 and
Australia is experiencing a major economic shift driven by a decade-long surge in federal and state government spending: Economists claim government spending is now structurally reshaping the economy in a way comparable to the early‑2000s mining boom. Alex Joiner, chief economist at IFM Investors, clearly illustrates the shift from the mining boom to the government-spending
Iron ore giant Fortescue has just four years left to meet its real zero emissions by 2030 target, a mammoth task that will require it to fundamentally change how it operates. So can it be done?
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A new white paper examines how Australia can ensure electricity system security in the transition from baseload generators and spinning machines to a grid dominated by inverter-based resources.
Apparently, Lenore Taylor, editor at the fake left Guardian, has jumped off the ship. Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor’s decision to step down this week after almost 10 years in the job wasn’t a shock. But the timing sure was. Announcing it at 5.30pm on a Tuesday? Leaving the business the following day? And staff hearing
The Australian Treasury set aside $35.7 million in contingent liabilities for defaults under the federal government’s 5% deposit scheme for home buyers in the mid-year budget update in December. Under this scheme, the Treasury guarantees 15% of first-home buyer mortgages, allowing homes to be purchased with only a 5% deposit without requiring lenders’ mortgage insurance.
Goldman believes that after accounting for seasonal fluctuations, the weighted average property price in the Chinese primary market decreased by 5.3% on an annualized basis in January, according to NBS 70-city data. Prices varied widely among city tiers. NBS and third-party platforms’ secondary market data indicate price decreases of 10% to 25% throughout the previous
On Thursday, I was interviewed by Mark Levy at Radio 2GB regarding Labor’s changes to the taxation of earnings on large superannuation balances. If passed by the Senate, the tax rate on superannuation accounts with balances between $3 million and $10 million will double to 30% from 1 July 2026. The tax rate on superannuation
NDX in for a test of the trading range. Charts from TME. The Sag7 does not look well. CTA uh oh. Bond volatility is on the rise. Which equities hate. The software route has not followed through on the squeeze. DEspite being cheap, cheap. The example of early AI casualties in India is instructive. No
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The “woke, decadent” EU is not facing a decline regardless of what critics say, and some people, including nearly half of Canadians, “still want” to join it, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has claimed.
Following the resignation of former Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley, her rural New South Wales seat of Farrer will go to a byelection. To say the situation is problematic for newly minted Liberal Party leader Angus Taylor would be an understatement. Instead of Ley remaining in parliament to see out her term or waiting until
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