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Rooftop solar installs jump to their highest levels yet in 2025, with a return to form for the small-scale PV market in a year that has seen home batteries steal the limelight.

One of the negative outcomes from the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), which took effect in 2005, was that it increased patent and copyright terms, raising the price of drugs and copyrighted products. Thomas Faunce from the Australian National University (ANU) assessed that AUSFTA “undermined Australia’s PBS” by “allowing the US to alter the

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It was a revelation being at home with Jane through Covid. The first couple of weeks she worked from the second desk in my office, where I’m typing this right now. I quickly gained an appreciation for her ferocious work ethic, but also for how she had to deploy it in the face of constant demands on her focus from other people in her work life.

Eventually we moved her into a spare room and after that of course, she returned to her office in the world of the real things.

I retained my appreciation for just how lucky I was to work in my own space, by myself. And let me tell you, I’m feeling that right now.

The "blackout" headlines from AEMO's transition report were predictable. But the big question is over what actions are taken now to protect heartbeat of the grid.

You can have AI or immigration, but not both unless you want a labour market disaster. But, as usual, we’ll have to find that out the hard way. At least, Aussie youth will. The Albanese government has decided against legislation to manage artificial intelligence, with a new national roadmap emphasising Labor’s focus on the technology’s

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A company headed up by one of the legends of Australian solar R&D has won Solar Sunshot funding to build a PV panel manufacturing plant in a former coal hub.

With the release of the latest data from pollster RedBridge, it was revealed that the Coalition’s share of the primary vote had fallen to just 24% at a federal level. It’s worth noting that over 85% of this poll was conducted before the Coalition abandoned its commitment to ‘Net Zero’ by 2050. The extent to

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Former federal Labor MP Craig Emerson has written an article in The New Daily slamming those arguing for lower, more sustainable levels of immigration. Emerson’s main argument is that a strong immigration program is necessary to prevent Australia’s population from ageing: Apart from pointing out the obvious that, other than First Nations people we are

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The Greens are right about gas. On Monday, the Greens signalled they would use that leverage to block any mechanism that “financially incentivises” gas production, and declared a levy on LNG exporters the only viable approach to rebalance the market without underwriting new development. Greens resources spokeswoman Steph Hodgins-May said Australia had ample supply and

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Wind and solar meet all of "net demand" in W.A., host of world's biggest isolated grid, as growing fleet of big batteries give market operator room to keep its thermals on.

Just when you think it’s safe to dip back into forex markets, the Japanese bond shock returns. At least this time, it is yields, not currency. Helped by the dovish Fed. AUD can’t rise while Japan threatens bond meltdown. CNY remains supportive. Gold senses something is amiss. Metals mania continues. Miners firmed. EM is stalled.

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NATO members should find ways to be more aggressive towards Russia, the US-led bloc’s top military chief has said.

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of the NATO Military Committee, told the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday that member states have been weighing options to respond to what he described as Russia’s “hybrid war.”

The Albanese government has already ignited the housing market with its 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers. Now housing minister Clare O’Neil is busy spruiking Labor’s Help to Buy shared equity scheme, which launches on 5 December 2025 and is designed to make home ownership more accessible by allowing eligible buyers to purchase a

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