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Another local engineering firm gets state funding to support move into wind industry, this time to deliver on-site repairs.

My trusty old LG Art Series airconditioner, installed when we renovated the house (and built my office) about twenty years ago… is no more.

Curtailment has become a defining feature of Australia's National Electricity Market, and it's leading to new concepts: The Dolphin Curve and pop up energy stores.

Cotality has released alarming data showing that Australia’s rental market is tightening fast. The following chart from Cotality shows that the total number of rental listings has fallen back to a historic low across the combined capital cities, tracking at about half the level of the early pandemic peak: The following chart from Cotality shows

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A first of its kind compressed air storage project in Broken Hill gets a funding boost from Canadian government agency.

As the debate over migration continues both on social media and in the halls of power, myths surrounding its impact on housing continue to propagate. This is despite the fact that the issue can often be easily disproven with a quick review of the data and a brief reading of commentary from one of the

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We rely on independent mapmakers to draw electoral boundaries at each redistribution. There is an extensive process of public consultation, and there are rules about how seats can be drawn, but ultimately the mapmakers have quite a lot of discretion about how they apply guidelines, and where they draw the lines.

With the release of the latest national accounts earlier this month, it was revealed that household consumption spending had picked up in the June quarter, rising by 0.9% in real terms. While 0.4 percentage points worth of that rise was driven by the growth in the working-age population, in overall terms it marked the equal

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From the Market Ear: Room to run SPX continues to trade inside the short-term trend channel that has been in place since late May. RSI is getting rather overbought, but overbought levels tend to stay overbought for longer than most think possible. Note the upper part of the channel is still higher. The chase is

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In the world of Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Australia’s economy is strong, wages are booming, and living standards are rebounding fast: “The Coalition’s deliberate policy of wage suppression saw wages stagnate for the best part of a decade and living standards fall sharply, but we’re turning that around”. “We’ve managed to get inflation down and

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On August 30th, Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in broad daylight in Lviv, Ukraine. A key figure in the foreign-fomented Maidan putsch and a prominent and influential politician locally for many years, he was mourned by a welter of British, European and US officials. 

Below is another excellent guest post from MB reader Erin Rolandsen, CEO of Angelassist: The Guardian ran yet another piece of propaganda pleading for Big Australia, this time leaning on KPMG modelling to claim that cutting migration would actually lift house prices:  “Slashing migration would actually lead to higher house prices in Australia – here’s

Victoria premier uses trip to China to announce approval for a one gigawatt hour battery project proposed by Chinese giant Trina that had attracted local opposition.