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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned Democrats on Monday against moderating their economic agenda to cater to the demands of wealthy donors ahead of the 2026 and 2028 election cycles.

Trump’s Washington runs on proximity, power and unpredictability. Australia’s next ambassador must be chosen for clarity, skill and seriousness.

Whoever Anthony Albanese appoints to replace Kevin Rudd as Australia’s ambassador to the US is likely to have a tough task explaining to the White House why Australia stands with Europe to resist Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland.

Just like during all the recent Iran protests, the language used by Western politicians and media follows a familiar script: “freedom,” “democracy,” and “support for the protesters” is what Europe and the US present as their priorities. Washington and London present themselves as moral actors, standing on the side of the protesters against an oppressive state. 

According to Cotality, Australia’s dwelling value-to-income ratio was tracking at a record high of 8.2 in the September quarter of 2025. Despite three 25-bp interest rate decreases from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the percentage of median family income required to service a new mortgage on a median-priced home was still historically high, at

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CEFC provides another $70 million to help $100 billion state-run investment fund drive more emission cuts in portfolio companies.

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Chancellor Friedrich Merz has launched a fresh critique of German work ethic, questioning why employees take an average of “almost three weeks” of sick leave annually instead of working harder to boost the country’s dwindling economy.

Campaigning in Baden-Württemberg last week, Merz took aim at the system of telephone sick notes, introduced during the coronavirus pandemic, wondering “does it still make sense today?”

The world's first giga-scale battery project was installed in 2021. This year, there will be 120 of them.

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Queensland's troubled coal plant suffers new outages, just two months after huge maintenance spend, leading to evacuation and new questions about LNG energy plan.

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Firefighters investigate cause of blaze in Adelaide, which has caused major damage to energy company 1Komma5º's solar panel and battery warehouse.

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TME with the details. That was the soft launch They told us AI was a chatbot. A productivity toy. A nicer autocomplete. That was the soft launch. In its latest Tech Predictions, CB Insights argues that AI’s next phase is no longer digital, but physical. Models are moving into machines, vehicles, warehouses, and defense systems,

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With the release of the latest gross operating company profit data from the ABS, it was revealed that they were flat in nominal terms for the quarter, despite analysts expecting a 1.5% quarter-over-quarter rise. This result leaves the nation’s gross operating company profits in an undesirable position when it comes to contributing to GDP, up

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You can always tell how murderous the U.S. empire is being from day to day from the expression on warmongering senator Lindsey Graham’s face, and right now he looks like he just found his mother dead in the bathtub.

Caitlin Johnstone: Just Read Lindsey Graham’s Face

Lindsey Graham’s long face is encouraging. Maybe war with Iran really has been put off for the time being.

“The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition that’s true,” Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, said in a notable CNN interview last week.