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Remote mining town in WA Goldfields to source 60 pct of its power needs from a solar farm and a battery after 20-year PPA signed for hybrid renewables system.

Western Australia government says it will consider using locally made green steel for major government projects such as railways, roads, and hospitals.

Chinese solar giant is the latest company to look at introducing a solar installation robot to Australian PV projects.

Portuguese energy giant signs deal with Queensland's QIC for new solar battery hybrid, indicating some renewable projects will get built despite LNP policy.

One of Australia's biggest domestic solar manufacturing hopes wins more than $25m in federal funding to edge closer to the goal of ultra-low cost solar.

Westpac says boom.. Westpac-Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index surges 12.8% to 103.8. First positive read since early 2022 and a seven-year high (excl. COVID period). Expectations improve as domestic recovery firms, trade risks subside. Strong gain is despite a less confident outlook for interest rates and jobs. ‘Mortgage belt’ is a notable exception, sentiment dipping

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The Market Ear on improving gold technicals.  Gold moving again Gold found support on the big $3900 level, and was close to the 50 day. The shiny metal is putting in the biggest up candle (as of writing) since the sell off began. We are well above the $4000 area. Next bigger resistance at $4200

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The fake left meltdown continues today. The fake left Guardian is busy defending fake left media coverage. “Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story,” said one. “What’s going on here is much

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Goldman has an amusing take on the Shenzhen property market, once the hottest in China. Policy environment:The expert was relatively cautious regarding policy environment in Shenzhen. The expert highlighted that easing measures that have been introduced so far, such as HPR relaxation and mortgage rate cuts, have had limited effects and failed to effectively boost

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The ferrous complex is weakening fast, as it should. Streel production has been slashed, but prices keep falling. The steel export pressure release valve has closed. Mills are shuttering. “We are hearing more stories about steel mills facing mounting losses, prompting several to announce maintenance plans in November,” said Westpac’s head of commodity strategy, Robert

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The Climate Change Authority recently warned that electric vehicles (EV) will need to account for 50% of Australia’s new car sales over 10 years if the federal government’s emissions reduction targets are to be met. Federal and state governments already provide substantial subsidies and incentives for EVs, which cost their budgets billions of dollars. Many

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Today’s post is the latest chapter in my series analysing the history of previous parliamentary expansions at a federal level. In my last post, I analysed how the pendulum changed during the 1948 redistribution. For this post, I am going to look at how MPs responded to this new map, which seats were left without a sitting MP at the subsequent election, and how the swing varied depending on whether an MP ran for the seat. I’m basically doing the same analysis for 1948-49 as this post was for 1984.