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For decades, billionaire Meriton founder ‘Highrise’ Harry Triguboff has persuaded politicians to implement policies favourable to his financial interests, including mass immigration. In 2006, Triguboff claimed that Sydney’s population needed to reach 20 million by 2050. In 2010, Triguboff argued that Australia’s population needed to increase to 100 million. “I’d like to see 100 million,

It's time to consider a party of independents, free from dogma, and committed to fairness, integrity and evidenced-base policy.

I have frequently cautioned that state and federal government plans to blanket our cities with high-rise apartments will not help Australian housing affordability and will reduce livability. The reasons are simple: it is too expensive to construct apartments. As a result, they cannot be delivered at a reasonable cost to buyers. Urbis highlighted the excessive

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping signed a series of documents and delivered statements to the press following their May 8 talks, outlining the further development of bilateral relations and cooperation on the international stage.

Key Agreements Signed

Joint statement on deepening comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation, marking a new era.

Eighty years is a long time. Over such a span, the world changes almost beyond recognition, and events that once felt close fade into legend. Yet while history may become distant, its imprint remains. The Second World War created a political order that shaped global affairs for decades – an order many assumed was permanent.

The official Q1 CPI inflation print from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that the policy-important trimmed mean inflation fell to 2.9% year-on-year to be within the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) inflation target of 2% to 3%. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the Melbourne Institute’s monthly trimmed mean inflation

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Australia is experiencing a housing crisis because its home prices are among the highest in the world compared to incomes, we have some of the most indebted households in the world, and tenants are paying a record share of their income on rent. According to CoreLogic, the total value of Australia’s housing stock was $11.3

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AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225   Easy Listening          

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The SA government’s decision to disband its hydrogen body means the state's iron and steelmaking will likely run on gas for longer. This is bad news.

Greens leader Adam Bandt has conceded defeat in his seat of Melbourne, meaning the loss of one of the most outspoken climate warriors in parliament.

Propaganda is maddening in its resistance to all truth. The Australian. New sources of gas that have been earmarked to fix a looming east coast shortfall will not be ready in time and cost just as much as imported LNG, a report from Rystad Energy on behalf of gas pipeline operator Jemena has concluded. …But

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One transmission company says it has received 8 GW of data centres load requests, but not in places that could be cure for wind and solar constraints.