Federal energy and climate minister Chris Bowen touted South Australia’s world-leading renewables share in a final pitch to secure hosting rights for next year’s COP31 UN climate conference. Appearing at the COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday, Bowen unveiled a report from the Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG) boasting South Australia’s three-quarter share

The RBA has been strong on the idea that a rebound in services wage growth is behind the recent bounce in headline inflation. It argues that without productivity, wage inflation must be pushing up prices in these areas. Yesterday’s Wage Price Index was unsupportive of the argument. The WPI was, as expected, stable at 3.4%.

Wall Street managed to escape a selloff overnight with the release of not so quite dovish FOMC minutes, but then the wobbles came through bond and currency markets as the Trump regime announced they weren’t releasing the October jobs print while the November print won’t be after the December Fed meeting. The USD went on

If you've ever walked past a newsstand, if you subscribe to Libération, if you listen to the radio, or if you have a TV, you know that in 2020, China employed 500,000 slaves in the cotton fields of Xinjiang (1).

The only proof lay in the sheer repetition of the information.