South Australia set stunning new native demand record on Tuesday amid heatwave, but nearly all of it was met by wind and solar.
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The American madman wants a lower currency, and he’s going to convulse until he gets it. AUD is off the hook. Way overbought, but this has legs. CNY and JPY support. Gold wavered. Metals too. Maybe frotnrun. Big mining heaven. EM rocket. Junk no bueno. Curve steepened. Stocks ATH. How far and fast can the
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On December 15, 2025, the European Union slapped sanctions on former Swiss intelligence officer and ex-NATO employee Jacques Baud. No day in court, no charges filed, just abrupt, suffocating, sanctions.
Australian housing valuations, in relation to household incomes, have never been more stretched: Cotality’s December chart pack valued the average Australian home at an astonishing $1,079,000, turning the average homeowning Australian into a housing millionaire. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is predicted by financial markets to hike the official cash rate (OCR) twice this
Wind projects now make up a small fraction of Australia's investment pipeline, which is now dominated by standalone batteries, and solar hybrids coming a clear second.
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Global investment into the energy transition reached a record $US2.3 trillion ($A3.33 trillion) in 2025, up 8 per cent from the previous year,
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Australians with some form of rooftop solar system at home are more likely to switch energy retailers as they seek the best solar feed-in tariff.
Tonight, I will be appearing on DFA Live with Martin North where we will discuss the Australian economy, housing market, the population ponzi, alongside other topics. The show goes live at 8pm AEST. We hope to see you there.
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It’s green across Asian share markets as local stocks also joined in the fun despite a much higher Australian dollar as the USD remains under enormous pressure against all major undollars as El Trumpo shoots off about South Korea. Inflation concerns in Japan and their bond market troubles are keeping Yen volatile while the looming
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As reported here some time ago, Jillian Segal was appointed Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism by the Albanese Labor government in 2024, and the main aim of her report seems to have been to conflate criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza with antisemitism. This was stated to be untenable by Justice Angus Stewart in a recent Federal Court case against Islamic preacher Wissam Haddad, whose posts it was ruled were antisemitic because he had conflated Zionism and Judaism. This is just what Jillian Segal had tried to do in her dodgy report. Stewart found that:
The cosmetics industry will tell you that sun damage is the worst thing to happen to your skin, and until now the photovoltaic industry held similar views about solar cells.
South Australia's growing fleet of big batteries depletes on its hottest ever night, sending average prices over the day to their highest level since fossil fuels dominated the local grid.
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The December NAB survey has wiped out rate cuts for the time being. Business conditions increased to +9. Business confidence increased slightly to +3. Employment remained stable at 4, which is roughly around the breakeven rate for unemployment. At 83.2%, capacity utilisation is still high. Sales, which increased by three points to a historically high
Cotality’s latest chart pack for December showed that Australia’s dwelling stock was valued at $12.3 trillion at the end of 2025, spread across 11.4 million homes. This meant that as of 31 December 2025, the average value of a home in Australia stood at an astonishing $1,079,000. Not surprisingly, then, Domain’s house price results for the
Fascism has been so misappropriated by the fake left that we should define it before we discuss it. Let’s turn to a source infinitely more accurate than journalists. ChatGPT. Fascism is a political ideology and system of government that centers on strong, centralized power, extreme nationalism, and the suppression of opposition and individual freedoms. In
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