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Wind and solar developers look for smarter ways to house construction workers than costly and short-term Dongers, and leave a lasting benefit to local communities.

Asian equity markets are generally up with the lack of a lead tonight as Wall Street will be closed for thanksgiving (thanking the AI bubble that is stuffing the stock market turkey that it is). Movement has been more regional as Chinese markets react to the latest and slow industrial production numbers while locally capex

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EPBC permission granted for what could be South Australia's first solar battery hybrid project, looking to connect next to the new transmission link to NSW.

State-owned solar and battery project completes installation of all 212,296 PV modules and accepts delivery of a 162.5-tonne transformer.

Growth in renewables deliver half of Australia's emission cuts in past year, and latest data suggests that 2030 target is on track, despite more diesel use in cars.

Just how corrupt is Albo? Everybody wants him to crush the gas cartel: 80% of Australians, all of industry and most miners, even the gas cartel itself. Now, farmers. Santos’s blighted Narrabri gas project is facing a new hurdle, with the country’s largest state farming body threatening legal action in a bid to force the state and

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By Stephen Saunders The Coalition’s touted policy shifts enable Albanese to sail on with massive immigration, historic rental/housing unaffordability, and steepening power bills. Nominally the Liberal Party mantra is “individual freedom and free enterprise”. With immigration, housing, energy, employment, “United Nations” Labor is interventionist, dirigiste, statist. Donning that Joy Division T-shirt, former student-activist Albanese leads

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, is joined by Leith Van Onselen to break down the Pacific’s growing inflation divide—why the U.S. Federal Reserve is edging toward cuts while the Reserve Bank of Australia is holding firm, what’s really driving the split beneath the headline CPI numbers, and what this

HOPE IS AN IMPERSONAL HEROE…..

Who tries to defy net zero

contrarily to RATIONEMACY

Forgetting SAPIENTIAMACY

And abandoning IUSTUMACY

The eternal rose on my desk

Could appear as grotesque

Being made of fine Chinese silk

Like so many fakes of her ilk

Contemplating alternative to DUMBOCRACY

There’s no answers in the aequus of MAGICRACY

Sprinkling dust into our naive eyes

As we see pies in the stormy skies

RE-Alliance’s national director, Andrew Bray, discusses how the energy transition can deliver important consumer benefits, particularly in housing.

The ferrous complex remains paralysed with iron ore caught in an obvious trading range between $100 and $107. CISA data for mid-November was still bearish, rising slightly but below last year’s levels. Inventory rose commensurately. Yet, hot metal output remains strong. According to an SMM survey, on November 26, the blast furnace operating rate at

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Roy Morgan reported that mortgage stress hit its lowest level since February 2023, following the three 0.25% rate cuts from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). In the three months to October 2025, 25.3% of mortgage holders were deemed by Roy Morgan to be ‘At Risk’ of ‘mortgage stress’, down 2.6% points from August 2025

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