Alex Joiner from IFM Investors published the following chart on Twitter (X) last week, showing the explosive growth in Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM), particularly since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Joiner noted that as of Q4 2000, it had taken 12 years of NOM to add 1,000,000 people to the population. As of
The world's biggest battery energy storage system – a 7.8 gigawatt-hour behemoth – has been completed in Saudi Arabia, and will now start the process of powering up.
The absolute madness of the proposed new food rules.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2025
Most of what you eat is sausages. I mean, if we’re going to get literal about it. Sausage derives from the Latin salsicus, which means “seasoned with salt”. You might think of a sausage as a simple thing, but on this reading it is everything and nothing, a Borgesian meta-concept that retreats as you approach it.
A sea of green across Asian share markets as we head into the low volume Christmas period with a solid finish on Wall Street on Friday night flowing through to the regions risk markets overall. The Australian dollar is bouncing back on a slightly weaker USD with a breakout above the 66 cent level. Oil
The first of what may be quite a few articles I reproduce here which I wrote for The Mandarin from around 2016 to 2020 or thereabouts (The Mandarin has put the articles I wrote for them behind its paywall so … Continue reading →
French President Emmanuel Macron “betrayed” Friedrich Merz by failing to back the German chancellor’s push to steal Russian assets frozen in the EU to fund Ukraine, the Financial Times has claimed.
Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a terrorist attack highly likely. And they are also arguably necessary. I think if you … Continue reading →
Australia will keep more of its gas for the domestic market under a national reservation scheme unveiled by the federal government.
Australia renewables gentailer reaches financial close on its first "battery only" project – and its largest project of any sort, to date – in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
