European Union must reach 100 per cent renewables by 2040 if it is to achieve climate neutrality by middle of the century, a new report has found.
NSW calls for 8GW of wind, solar and storage, as it prepares for the biggest and most rapid transition from coal to renewables in the country.
Over recent weeks, we have witnessed incessant lobbying from universities over funding, whereby they have demanded a return to the Gillard Government’s failed demand-driven system: Universities face turning away hundreds of thousands of students next year as applications to study surge but available places remain fixed… Professor of education policy at Melbourne University Frank Larkins
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Rio is asking for bailouts as power prices are too high to make Aluminium, the price of which has fallen: The Australian Aluminium Council (AAC), whose members include Rio and US aluminium giant Alcoa, said energy costs had to come down for smelters to survive… It is understood the Coalition government and Rio have been
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CoreLogic’s research director, Tim Lawless, expects Melbourne’s housing market to be “significantly disrupted” from the six week lockdown: Over the previous lockdown period, which was in place between late March and mid-May, housing market activity was significantly disrupted. The previous lockdown period saw real estate agent activity across Victoria slump by almost 70% before gradually
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by Chris Becker There was an unusual blip in the amount of Americans who died from COVID-19 reported on Tuesday, that could have been written off (as sick as that sounds) as the usual weekend anomaly, whereby deaths over the weekend – in this case a 3 day weekend due to 4th of July holiday
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Drew Pavlou has taken the fight directly to the University of Queensland’s (UQ) top brass, with his lawyer referring them to Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission: The University of Queensland’s two highest-ranking executives have been referred for investigation over claims of corruption and failure to disclose foreign influence by lawyers representing embattled student activist Drew
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From Seek: Key insights (weeks 26 & 27 compared to February 2020): SEEK job ads in the last fortnight are at 66.6% of pre-COVID levels Job ad volumes have levelled out nationally with a slight increase of 1.3% in the last two weeks compared to the previous two weeks Job ads in Victoria have declined
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Paul Keating is at it again, attacking those calling for a freeze in the compulsory superannuation guarantee (SG) at the current rate of 9.5%: The argument that is now being put, erroneously, is that in a period of static real wage growth, any upward shift in the Superannuation Guarantee will cost workers immediate disposable income.
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The latest private sector credit data from the Reserve Bank of Australia revealed that the stock of personal credit, which was already in terminal decline, collapsed by 10.2% in the year to May – the biggest plunge in recorded history: As shown above, this decline in personal credit growth easily exceeds the troughs of the
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The latest NAB survey of property professionals reveals a rather pessimistic industry, with sentiment collapsing both in the short and medium-term: With Victoria most negatively impacted: House price expectations have also tanked, with falls predicted over the next two years, with Victoria leading the declines: The below charts give the longer-term context: Rents are also
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Foreword: Australia has endless flaws and whilst I’m not going to paint a picture that Australia is not in many but different ways just as troubled, in just as much danger from government corruption and just as racist towards non-whites, that’s a topic for another day. I’ve never been to America, but I can tell…
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