Thursday’s labour force data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has put the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) under more pressure to hike interest rates. Australia’s headline unemployment rate remained at 4.1% in January amid solid employment growth of 17,800. The number of hours worked also rose by a solid 0.6% in January. As
Last week, the UK committed up to £1 billion to community and local energy, with an ambition that by 2030, every community will have the opportunity to own an energy project. Australia should take notice.
Perhaps the most important feature of the latest monthly electricity data from the IEA is not that renewables dominate growth in electricity consumption but that every country is doing the same thing.
Arab and Muslim-majority countries have condemned US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee for arguing that Israel has a biblical right to much of the Middle East.
Australia’s auction market has continued to fade following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) interest rate hike this month. According to Cotality, the national preliminary auction clearance rate declined to 68.0%, down from 70.7% last weekend (revised to 63.3% on final numbers) and 73.7% two weeks ago (revised to 66.1% on final numbers). This weekend’s
Former UK Trade envoy, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor You would think that there would be someone, anyone, who knew enough about the Royal Family, who knew Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor well enough who could have said to him quietly, ‘Molesting underage girls is not a good look for a Prince of the Realm, sire……’ But the bigger fallout
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the UK and its allies should deploy non-combat troops to Ukraine right now, to "flip a switch" in Russian President Vladimir Putin's head.
"This week’s news that Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died after allegedly ingesting poison from a South American frog while imprisoned in the Arctic is a reminder that Russia also has a long history of assassinating critics of the regime."
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