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In the debate over the appropriate level of migration into Australia, the argument is often made that there would be significant economic downsides if a major reduction in intake were to be realised. On a very short-term time horizon, that is almost certainly the case. With 10 out of the last 13 quarters seeing falls

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The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of illegal tariffs. The administration has the responsibility to design such relief.

President Trump, your tariff regime was illegal, unfair, and detrimental to the American people. You also grossly misrepresented the facts to the American people by claiming that foreign countries were paying. They were not. American families paid.

Australia recorded the strongest net overseas migration (NOM) in the nation’s history between Q4 2019 and Q2 2025, with 266,000 net migrants arriving annually, including the Covid-19 border closure: This huge immigration inflow had a devastating impact on the rental market. Since the end of 2019, the record net migration flows (i.e., 266,000 per annum)

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NSW headquartered thermal energy storage hopeful wins federal government funding to speed up commercialisation of its patented block-based technology.

The post Company behind Australia’s largest thermal storage project wins Arena funding appeared first on Renew Economy.

While top bureaucrats are now earning one million a year, the tribunal that decides who gets what is doing its best to keep its decisions secret. Rex Patrick reports.

The head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet gets over $1 million a year, and the Secretaries of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Defence and Home Affairs are not far behind at $960,000. In fact, only two departmental heads earn less than $900,000.

John Grimes, a stalwart of the Australian renewable energy industry and key negotiator of game-changing policies, has called time on nearly two decades as CEO of the Smart Energy Council.

The post Legend of Australian renewables John Grimes to resign as SEC CEO, take on regional role appeared first on Renew Economy.

WARNING — BULLSHIT STORY FOLLOWS: Among the many grim milestones of a bloody war in Ukraine that has now been going for four years was one reached recently: For the first time since its invasion, Russia has lost troops faster than it can replace them.

Fortescue says its electrification spend should hit a "run rate" of about $1bn a year to the end of the decade. And it is already banking savings from swapping out diesel.

The post Fortescue’s electrification spend hits $1 billion-a-year “run rate,” as diesel savings start to flow appeared first on Renew Economy.

The ABS monthly number is out, and whoa! Both headline and trimmed mean came in 10bps above consensus. The details aren’t good, either. How has Australia managed to experience 4% goods inflation while China is flooding the world with dirt-cheap products displaced from the US? Energy shock, I’m guessing. The same is still playing out

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Australia's most powerful battery is likely to continue to limp along at around half of its promised capacity for most of the year, with delivery of a replacement transformer expected in the second half of 2026.

The post New transformer in works for Australia’s most powerful battery, but return to full service pushed out again appeared first on Renew Economy.

The evidence from around the world shows that when you raise energy costs, your economy deindustrialises. Consider the following examples. Germany: Germany once had about 22 GW of nuclear power, producing over 160 TWh annually at a reasonable cost and with no emissions. Following the Fukushima accident in 2011, Berlin shut down 8 GW of

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Australia’s housing affordability has never been worse. According to Cotality, the nation’s dwelling price-to-income ratio was tracking at a record high of 8.2 in the September quarter of 2025: The time taken to save a 20% deposit was a record high 11 years, according to Cotality: The share of income required to pay the median

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