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Labor's Cheaper Home Batteries rebate and other state-based incentives are driving uptake of distributed storage. But will they fit the bill for AEMO's ISP?

Ukraine’s European backers made no official statements on granting Kiev access to long-range weaponry following a meeting in London on Friday.

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Dutch and Danish counterparts Dick Schoof and Mette Frederiksen attended the meeting devoted to additional military support for Kiev.

The Albanese government launched its 5% deposit scheme for first-home buyers at the start of the month. The First Home Guarantee scheme allows an uncapped number of first-home buyers to purchase a home using only a 5% deposit, provided they do not exceed the generous price caps illustrated in the following table. For every home

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Energy minister Chris Bowen takes the fight to one of the government's loudest critics, saying the right wing think tank has got it wrong on renewables and coal.

US President Donald Trump has announced the suspension of all trade talks with Canada, accusing Ottawa of distributing fake ads against tariffs.

"Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs … Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED," Trump said on Truth Social on Thursday.

Risk markets are again pivoting on more tantrums from the Oval Office as the Trump regime lashes out at Canada and Venezuela via the usual online 12-year old boy tantrums from the Mango Mussolini. Asian share markets brushed off the histrionics and are seeing strong bids to finish the trading week but all eyes will

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GE Vernova chief commercial officer Pablo Koziner on the latest thinking around data centres, wind energy, gas, SMRs and batteries. Plus: News of the week.

"We know how it works:" Australia's electricity grid could get the carbon price it needs, just by adapting a Coalition policy initiative. It will cut emissions, and costs.

Domain has published its home price figures for the September quarter, which show that the median house price in Sydney reached a record high of $1,751,728 following a 6.3% annual increase. Sydney units also increased to a record high of $840,422 following a softer 2.7% annual increase. As shown in the table below from Domain,

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By Stephen Saunders As the Labor-Liberal uni-party institutionalises mass migration and fake net zero, the March for Australia protests continue. After October 19, the next one is Australia Day. In Australia, the distinction between the “left” and “right” wings is less and less useful. It’s theatre. The more useful distinction is the top 1-20% versus

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I reported on Thursday how New Zealand’s rental growth has plummeted in response to the sharp decline in net overseas migration, which fell to only 10,628 in the year to August 2025, down from a decade average of 49,000. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the collapse in net migration has helped

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When the Trump administration and Albanese government inked a deal for the U.S. and Australian governments to invest $4.6 billion ($3 billion USD) in critical minerals projects across Australia, the announcement came with something of an added bonus for the U.S. shortly after: a claimed commitment that Australian superannuation funds would invest “almost $1 trillion”

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Tesla secures its first billion dollar profit from energy storage, with a surge in household batteries and the rapid evolution of grid-scale products.