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Silver took a nose dive as the Trump regime enacted a critical minerals directive plus tariffs on semiconductors amid more national security beat-ups while still promising an attack on Iran keeping other risk markets in check. The USD remains somewhat firm due to safe haven bids while the oil price has been beaten back slightly.

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Perhaps we can be grateful that Australia’s capital city and its national interest policy process are so far gone from sense that no legislation is any longer possible. Thus, the response to the horror of the Bondi massacre appears to be melting down faster even than it was ill-conceived. Having allowed himself to be bullied

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Back in 2017, I wrote a piece about the likely fragmentation of the conservatives in Australia1. Here, most of the conservatives largely belong to what is ironically named the Liberal Party, with a few other small fringe groups soaking up the racist and religious extremists. That article was precipitated by one of the religious nutters in the Liberal Party, spitting the dummy, leaving that party and attempting unsuccessfully to start his own2.

Roy Morgan reports that mortgage stress has fallen to its lowest level since January 2023, following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) three 25 bp rate cuts. Roy Morgan classified 24.7% of mortgage holders as ‘At Risk’ of’ mortgage stress’ in the three months ending November 2025, a 3.2% decrease from August 2025 and significantly

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British wind farms helped limit the role of gas power plants in setting prices, cutting power prices by almost a third, according to new analysis.

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In recent months, the evolution of events and rhetoric over Greenland has been absolutely unprecedented. “Unprecedented” is a word that has been thrown around a great deal in recent memory, but in this instance, it’s entirely apt. On one side of the divide over the issue, there are reports that U.S. President Donald Trump ordered

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A collapse in the price of LGCs means consumer GreenPower prices should also plunge this year - but will they? And why haven't they already?

The post “A price gouging rip off:” Cost of GreenPower certificates have plunged, but retailers still charge huge premium appeared first on Renew Economy.

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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