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Cotality’s Chart Pack for December shows that dwelling values nationally increased by 2.9% in the final quarter of 2025, with regional values (3.5%) outpacing capital city values (2.7%). One of the key factors driving the rise in Australian dwelling values is the complete dearth of homes available for sale. Cotality’s data shows that total listings

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NSW looks to boost support for solar-battery hybrids, as it seeks to ramp up efforts to build enough new capacity to allow closure of its ageing coal plants.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr has eliminated up to 400 Ukrainian military personnel over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

"Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 400 servicepeople, an armored fighting vehicle, nine pickup trucks, and an artillery piece," the ministry said in a statement.

At the same time, Kiev has lost over 270 soldiers in battles with Russia's Battlegroup Vostok, the ministry added.

Any reasonable person should hate these hate laws. Andrew Hastie for PM. Mr Hastie on Wednesday afternoon doubled down on his opposition to the bill, which he said was “an attack on our basic democratic freedoms, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and freedom of religion”. Just get out of the way for Andrew, Susan.

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Donald Trump's war on everything is expanding and accelerating.

In the past week, the US president has plucked the Venezuelan president from his home and threatened Cuba and Colombia while openly discussing military action against Iran and perhaps even Greenland.

In debates over the appropriate level of migration into various Western nations, there is often a narrative that a significant reduction in the intake would entail major economic costs. However, a new report by TD Economics Chief Economist Beata Caranci questions the impact of migration cuts on the Canadian economy. In Canada, the unemployment rate

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Last year was the world's third warmest on record, underscoring a trend already fuelling destructive fires and floods in Australia in the early days of 2026.

The post “Tipping petrol on the fire:” World experiences third hottest year in 2025, as fires, floods hit at home appeared first on Renew Economy.

Ontario utility asks regulator to double the price it is paid for nuclear power - to the equivalent of $A222/MWh - to cover the costs of new reactors and upkeep.

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According to the most recent NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion (QSBO), business confidence increased significantly in the last quarter of 2025. Seasonally adjusted, a net 39% of businesses anticipate improved overall economic conditions in the upcoming months. With business confidence at its highest level since March 2014, this was a significant rise from the

As the push and pull over the prospect of rate rises in 2026 continues, the signals coming from forward looking labour market indicators are painting quite a different picture. The ANZ-Indeed Job Ads index has continued to plumb new cycle lows, down 32.6% from the peak level of demand for labour in November 2022. In

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From boom levels to more moderate. the Westpac credit card index has come off. Though seasonal adjustments may be messing with the outcome. The most recent weekly Index reading of 158.2 is the highest on record, but these problems probably overstate its strength. Although there are some hesitant indications of deceleration around the year’s beginning,

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I’m not saying it’s over, but we now see how it could be. TME with the charts. Oil is back as anarcho-imperialism builds a risk premium. Room to run. Too many bulls. Not enough bears. Long-end selling like hotcakes. Duration and tech are not good bedfellows. Gold doesn’t care. But if DXY gets moving with

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I’d better say this before I am arrested in two days. The CBA Labour and Wage Report (is that a religious text I can quote from?) is a terrific leading indicator for wage growth. For the quarter and the year ending in December, wages increased by 0.8% and 3.1%, respectively. December saw the addition of

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