Israel’s President Isaac Herzog will be dining with Anthony Albanese tonight [10/02/2026], tomorrow he’s off for a whistle-stop tour of Canberra, courtesy of the RAAF, who will also fly him and his entourage to Melbourne on Thursday. Michael West and Stephanie Tran report.
We all know that the RBA can’t forecast its way out of a wet paper bag. Yesterday, we got a swag of soft data evidence that it has, once again, nailed the top of the economy with a rate hike. The CBA employment tracker continued to show a decline in monthly job creation. 21k per
US companies sign deal to build giant sodium batteries for US data centres, and also targeting Australia and Japan.
The Pulse’s Ross Elliott has written an excellent article on the administrative bloat that has engulfed Australia’s planning industry. Elliott notes that lawyers he has spoken with told him “they didn’t really know how many [planning-related] pages of rules and regulations were now in force—just that it would be so many as to be impossible
The ferrous jaws may have partially closed, but a new problem is fast emerging: the price of steel amid weak demand. More profitable steel, or less loss-making steel, means more of it and lower prices, which leads to lower iron ore prices in a rinse-and-repeat cycle. ANZ has a new report that is worth considering
Simon Hackett says government subsidies should only support home batteries that let consumers choose their software and energy services freely. Currently they don’t.
A new era has dawned in Japan with the reelection of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government. A Japan that is tough on China and strict on immigration has emerged, one that is unafraid of defending its interests both foreign and domestic. Prime Minister Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party won in an absolute landslide, securing a 10.77
In last Sunday’s Thai general election, voters swung strongly to current prime minister Anutin’s Bhumjaithai Party, or BJT. In this podcast, Ben discusses Thai politics and the results of the Thai election with Erin Cook of the Dari Mulut ke Mulut newsletter.
