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With the release of the latest ABS Building Approvals data for August, it was revealed that dwelling approvals had fallen by 6.0% on a month-on-month basis but were still up 3.0% year-on-year. However, looking at a chart of trend approvals shows they had rolled over recently. This provides a concerning sign that there may not

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Tim Eden joins Sam to unpack Origin’s V2G trial, and shifting EV strategies. Plus, producer Tanya Shukla shares a passenger’s-eye view of Tesla FSD Supervised.

I reported this week on Jobs & Skills Australia’s (JSA) latest study on the international education sector, which admitted that the primary motivation for international students to choose Australia is to obtain work rights and permanent residency. Nearly 70% of international higher education students reported migration as a key factor in their decision to study

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New Zealand will go to the polls next year at their next general election, and the electoral map of New Zealand has been redrawn in advance of that election.

New Zealand’s parliament is elected via mixed member proportional, with a majority of MPs elected to represent single-member electorates using first-past-the-post, and the remainder elected from party lists as top-ups to ensure overall proportionality.

The Market Ear on a bull gone mad. Most shorted mania Most shorted needs a bigger chart soon. Note that we are in overbought territory, but RSI is actually slightly lower than what we saw during the latter part of September. Source: LSEG Workspace MOVE chilling Bond volatility remains “depressed”. Noteworthy is that VIX has

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This week, we received data on dwelling approvals from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which showed that the Albanese government’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years (i.e., 240,000 dwellings a year) is falling badly behind. In the first 14 months of the National Housing Accord, 218,306 dwellings were approved, 61,694 (22%)

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Queensland Government needs to look at the huge scope to ramp up rooftop solar and consumer resources in ways that benefit homes, the grid and the budget.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has become the world’s first person to reach a net worth of $500 billion, according to Forbes. Musk’s fortune has been boosted recently by a rally in Tesla shares and soaring valuations of his private firms.

Tesla stock jumped nearly 4% on Wednesday, adding $9.3 billion to Musk’s fortune and pushing it to $500.1 billion, according to the Forbes Billionaires List. Musk’s 12% stake in the carmaker is valued at $191 billion.

The pirates of Israeli supremacy: The West’s favorite rogue state has done it againThe assault on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza broke all kinds of laws, but then again, laws have never stopped Israel

The long-expected if perfectly criminal has happened again: Israel’s navy has intercepted the Gaza-bound Sumud Flotilla by force, stopping almost 50 boats and, in effect, kidnapping hundreds of their crews and passengers.

Alongside the genocide, the Israeli government is destroying the ecosystems of Gaza, perhaps permanently.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th September 2025

A landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which they are achieved. The first is the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians. The second is rendering the land uninhabitable. Alongside the crime of genocide, another great horror unfolds: ecocide.

I enjoy flicking through Substack Notes of a morning, looking for an essay I might enjoy. Occasionally I’ll find something like ‘Light Travels at the Highest Possible Velocity’, a Sherman Alexie story I read one Sunday morning in bed which delayed my getting up by an hour.

It’s one of the best things I’ve read this year, and I found it by accident and read it for free.

Thanks Sherm.

Since the ABS started publicly releasing its monthly CPI in late October 2022, it has been a source of controversy and debate. It has been an indicator that has been paid significant heed one month and then absolutely ignored the next, as it no longer produced a result in the desired direction. It has been

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The Albanese government’s fantastical target of building 1.2 million dwellings over five years is centred on delivering a boom in high-rise towers. I have repeatedly warned that state and federal government plans to blanket our cities with high-rise apartments are unrealistic, would not improve Australian housing affordability, and would degrade liveability. The August dwelling approvals