Australia’s energy demand will soar over the coming decades due to a combination of rapid population growth, the mass build-out of data centres, and the likely need for a fleet of energy-hungry water desalination plants. The latest projections from the Centre for Population, released this month, show that the nation’s population will balloon by 13.4
Even the intelligence services are gagged by the government when they try to tell the truth about our planetary crisis.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th January 2026
Very close to 100% renewable electricity is feasible for Australia’s main grid at reasonable cost using just several hours of storage. Four years of data proves this is so.
Asian share markets are generally higher as all risk markets look on with hesitation around the seemingly inevitable Iran/US war as both oil and gold prices blowout. This is keeping the Australian dollar on a tear as it barrels in on the 71 handle while other undollars took a breather overnight after a wide dumping
State owned CleanCo has nixed an option to buy a 360 MW wind project, saying it doesn't fit with its new remit. Instead, it has signed up to a small 10-year-old wind farm.
To the rescue! A Bloomberg Intelligence gauge of Chinese developer stocks jumped as much as 8.1% Thursday, the most since July. Among the top gainers was Sunac China Holdings Ltd., which surged 28% at one point in Hong Kong. Country Garden Holdings Co. also added nearly 22%. This followed a report by Beijing News late Wednesday
Charts from TME. All-time highs again, with nowhere to go as volatility climbs on safe haven bids. Skew climbing with tail risks. Long gamma a big headwind as, “gs futures strats calculate $6bn of long gamma at spot, which increases to $12bn long gamma +100bps higher… in english, a 100bps rally in spx cash creates supply
Chris Joye, a portfolio manager with Coolabah Capital, recently wrote an article in the Australian Financial Review arguing that the expansion of government spending was placing upward pressure on inflation and, by extension, interest rates. “At the federal level, the annualised monthly trend budget deficit has deteriorated rapidly from $12 billion in December 2024 to
More evidence today of China’s Great Depression. The PBoC January survey is a doozy. Goldman adjusts these figures seasonally. Loan approval: 53.4 in Q4 2025 compared to 53.8 in Q3 2025; loan demand: 56.1 in Q4 2025 versus 57.7 in Q3 2025 Sentiment toward monetary policy for the upcoming quarter: 71.5 in Q4 2025 compared