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Solar-battery project near Narrabri has just entered the EPBC queue but it's found just one threatened species, and that's likely to thrive under solar protection.

Russia responds to Trump’s ‘paper tiger’ criticism

The country is usually described as a “bear” rather than other animals, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has joked

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has rejected US President Donald Trump’s description of Russia as “a paper tiger,”joking that the country is more commonly compared to a bear.

NSW invests $28 million into a new renewables manufacturing hub in western Sydney with initial focus on wind anchors, and materials for solar trackers.

Farmers group supportive of renewable energy is seeing the effect of mis- and disinformation on its work, and says it has been targeted in a social media attack.

Recently on Twitter (also known as X), I came across a series of charts purporting to show the trend in certain search terms on Google indicative of financial stress. Fake charts are increasingly common, so I thought it would be best to do my own research on Google search trends to see if I could

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the monthly CPI indicator for August, which recorded a jump in headline inflation to 3.0%—the highest result since July 2024. In better news, the policy-relevant trimmed mean inflation moderated to 2.6% in August, down from 2.7% in July. The main driver of the rise in headline CPI

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Because of my particular palaeontological expertise, in 1999, I was asked to be involved in a project with the Northern Territory Geological Survey (NTGS). They were about to begin remapping several 1:250,000 geological map sheets in the Northern Territory portion of the enormous Georgina Basin. My part of the project was mostly providing biostratigraphic expertise, which means providing a detailed assessment of the age range of the rock units the mappers were likely to encounter, by looking at the fossils in them. To this end, we sampled about 18 drill cores which had been taken from assorted parts of the basin1.

The ferrous complex plods on. Caught between the approach of Simandou, Capanema, Gara Gjeblet on one hand and the shutdown of Chinese green steel on the other. The balance is unusually solid blast furnace output for the season. Honestly, if you had shown me that chart in 2019, I would have told you iron ore

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AEMO says Australia is shifting to a new operating paradigm as it gets to the halfway mark of its 2030 targets.

Victoria set a new battery charging record this week - becoming the first state to reach 1 GW when it soaked up nearly half of the state's rooftop solar output.

With the implementation of the Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers just over a week away, social media is filled with promotional material from the Albanese government crowing about how their achievement will help prospective home buyers. It’s certainly true that some first home buyers will benefit because they will be able

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From the Market Ear: Tech spending Without tech spending the US economy would be close/in a recession. DB points out: 1. Good news: The AI super-cycle — with NVIDIA effectively carrying the US economy — is offsetting demand (tariffs) and supply (immigration) shocks. 1. Bad news: The cycle can’t last without parabolic capex. With hyperscaler

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The Productivity Commission (PC) released its quarterly Bulletin, which explored the structural decline in Australia’s ‘capital deepening’, which has contributed significantly to the nation’s productivity malaise. “Labour productivity tends to increase when workers have more or better capital (such as computers and buildings) to work with, which is known as ‘capital deepening’”, PC Deputy Chair