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Australia is suffering its worst rental crisis in living memory. Advertised rents have soared by around 47% since the end of 2019, according to Cotality, adding around $11,470 to the annual cost of renting for the typical Australian: Australian rental vacancy rates are also tracking at historical lows, at around half pre-pandemic levels: Cotality shows

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This analysis examines the strategic importance of a narrow maritime chokepoint and how its closure could trigger global economic collapse. Discover the vulnerabilities of major economies and infrastructure in a potential conflict between regional powers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOmmHOqMGvo

How the Strait of Hormuz Will Start World War 3 | Prof Jiang Explains

Big battery projects including stand-alone BESS and solar-hybrids dominated investment activity in the final quarter of 2025, featuring in 16 deals across financing, M&A and PPAs.

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Camilla Hamilton from Cogency explains the importance of research, listening, and good coffee when consulting with communities on renewables. Plus news of the week.

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The Albanese government has signalled that it will scale back the capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the May budget, most likely from 50% to 33% or 25%. It has also signalled that it will limit the number of investment properties that an individual can negatively gear. However, Greens senator Nick McKim says the 50%

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released national accounts data for the December quarter, which printed headline real GDP growth of 0.8% over the quarter and 2.6% year-on-year. The result beat expectations of 2.2% growth. Thanks to backward revisions, per capita GDP has now grown for four consecutive quarters, rising by 0.9% in 2025, the

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The latest quarterly dwelling completions data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that over the first 15 months of the National Housing Accord, 81,000 (27%) fewer homes were constructed than required to meet the government’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years, commencing July 1, 2024: Out of the major markets,

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Australian growth will be okay today, by all accounts. Forecasters have the December quarter coming in at 0.7-1.1% supported, largely, by, you guessed it, Albo’s rampant spending. Despite a significant decline in public infrastructure work (-3.8% qtr), public investment increased 0.9% qtr in Q4. Strength was centred at the federal level, where federal public corporations’

Two weeks ago, I flew to Sydney to record an SBS Insight special examining the immigration debate in Australia. The scissor reel below showcases my three appearances on the episode: SBS did a competent job presenting my arguments with minimal editing. But, as with all such shows, I would have said more if I could.

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Asian LNG prices are rising at 20% per day and hit $22.50 overnight. Locally, gas prices are falling, apparently owing to unusually weak NEM demand. The fuel mix suggests weak demand owing to good weather and even weaker gas usage. This is great timing, but Australia’s worst minister, the Mad King, is already encouraging the

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DXY is a one-armed bricklayer in Tehran. To the moon! North Asia has buckled. AUD crashed overnight, then recovered about half as local fundies scramble for Sag7 hedges. Oil pumped and dumped, forgetting that the quickest way to end this war is to deliver an energy shock to the Trump TACO. Gold printed a terrifying

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Mocking a prime minister for wishing Chinese Australians a happy new year says less about foreign policy than about how national identity is being weaponised in domestic politics.

Multiple commanders across all branches of the US military have offered a fundamentalist Christian explanation for the attack on Iran, describing President Donald Trump as the harbinger of the Second Coming and the conflict itself as a “signal fire”for Armageddon, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has reported.