The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the national accounts for Q4 2024, which revealed that the economy has finally emerged from its longest recorded per capita recession. The Australian economy grew by 0.6% in Q4 2024 and 1.3% year-on-year. In per capita terms, the economy grew by 0.1% in Q4, the first increase
Ben is joined by John Carey to discuss how you design an electoral system for a new democracy – what factors are most important to producing a healthy and sustainable democracy, and how might those requirements change over time?
From Energy Quest, which finally tells the truth. The gas flows south are small compared to the total east-coast domestic demand of about 500 petajoules, but this does not tell the whole story. Southern state gas demand, particularly in Victoria, grows substantially (triples) during winter as there are about 2 million households in Victoria that
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Last year, the electric vehicle (EV) ‘revolution’ hit a wall. Sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) stalled in 2024, whereas sales of hybrid vehicles continued to boom. According to the Australian Automobiles Association’s Electric Vehicle Index, only 91,293 BEVs were sold last year, an increase of only 4.7% on the 87,217 BEVs sold in 2023.
Oversold. Definitely. The Market Ear. Huge SPX is trading below range lows as of writing. Note we are below the 200 day moving average (SPX continuous futures), and the 50 day is about to cross the 100 day (inverse cross compared to December 2023). These are longer term moving averages, but we wouldn’t be surprised
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There are no rules — and should be no judgement — about how International Women's Day should be marked.
Not everyone's a fan of pink cupcakes and special breakfasts full of women who are a little bit crying on the inside from having to get it together even earlier than usual.
Developers have ridiculed the Minns government’s plan to fix the state’s housing crisis with a Parisian-style medium-density housing blitz. The transport-oriented development (TOD) scheme, launched by the Minns government, allows low-to mid-rise developments within 400 metres of 37 train or metro stations across Sydney. However, industry leaders claim that homeowners band together to drive up
DXY is falling. EUR rising. AUD follows the latter. Held back by CNY. Surely time’s up for oil. Commods meh. Miners meh. EM meh. If spread widen, look out below. Yields held on. Stocks fluctuated. The market is well short AUD again. Options are not the main driver of value, but they are an indicator.
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Wall Street crumbled again overnight as the realisation has set in that the Don in the Oval Office is hell bent on upending the global trade order, as Canada hit back with their own tariffs. The EU is pushing for a near trillion Euro boost in defence spending which sent the Euro soaring against the
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Together with many Jews here and around the world, I’m proud to stand with you once again in solidarity with Palestine. On this occasion, I want to talk about the growing hysteria about antisemitism.
Peter Slezak’s Gaza rally speech: ‘We face one of the greatest moral tests of our time’ By Peter Slezak
The petulant demand of tribute to the Trump empire and his transactional ethos surely now challenges the agreed balance sheet between Australia and America.
Comments last week by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on vital defence issues made clear how confused — and indeed downright misinformed — our highest political and defence force leaders are.
Witnessing the extraordinary cage fight this week between Volodomyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump in the Oval Office provided an eye-popping glimpse into what is normally kept behind closed doors when world leaders meet to nut out matters of great consequence.
Ukraine deal: Beware of Americans bearing gifts By Eugene Doyle
I do not believe that Russia, China or the United Kingdom or for that matter the United States or France should dictate Irish foreign policy or should dictate when we do or do not deploy troops.
It’s almost as if they think nobody is watching. Cramming more classrooms into existing schools would be necessary to save Victoria’s cash-strapped government billions of dollars on building critical new campuses, according to the state’s peak infrastructure body. Infrastructure Victoria says the state will need to build another 60 government schools in the decade to