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Retirement Essentials has released a report, produced on behalf of industry super fund HESTA, showing that Australians who receive the age pension but continue to work can incur effective marginal tax rates of between 60% and 80%. Retirement Essentials found, among other things, that the effective marginal tax rate for a single pensioner will be

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Bowen announces 16 winners of Australia's biggest battery auction to date.

Coalition faces open revolt over bombshell climate report, with one frontbencher threatening to resign and Nationals senator likening report to a biblical apocalyptic screed.

Solar battery hybrids are winning the battle on costs, market signals, speed of construction and customer needs, and are about to become a big thing in Australia.

In this episode of Energy Insiders, Giles Parkinson and David Leitch speak with Dr. Pep Canadell, CSIRO Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project.

In the wake of the recent assassination of American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at an event at Utah Valley University, there has been a renewed drive for greater levels of gun control in the United States. Historically, the push for greater gun control in the U.S. has been accompanied by commentary that America should follow

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When the latest polling from Resolve was published by the Sydney Morning Herald and the other Nine Entertainment papers, it revealed that the One Nation primary vote was polling at a record high of 12%, overtaking the Greens as the third largest primary vote. While this is just one poll, a broader long-term analysis of

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The Tasmanian government has announced plans to “reform” Tasmanian local government by slashing the number of councillors across the state. The government has put up a discussion paper on the topic, but in short it would reduce the number of elected officials on councils to five, seven or nine members. Across the state, this would remove almost 23% of all councillor positions.

From the Market Ear: AIQ at the most overbought levels since July 2024…just before markets crashed. The tech buy in Last week’s “notional net buying in global Info Tech was the largest in seven months and ranks in the 99th percentile on a 5-year lookback”. Soon enough… Everybody has been waiting for weak September… but

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A former Israel Defence Forces chief of staff says more than over 10% of Gaza’s population of approximately 2.2 million was killed or injured since October 2023.

It is important to view Australia’s immigration policy in a historical context. In the first 60 years after World War 2, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per annum, with only two years over that 60-year period recording a NOM of more than 150,000. In the 15 years of ‘Big Australia’ immigration leading up

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Federal government agrees to cut fees and levies and slash red tape in bid to slow exodus from Australia's nascent offshore wind developments.

I realised about halfway through World War 3.2 that I couldn’t finish the story in 3.3. I didn’t even have space in this most recent book to check in on Lonesome Jones. He just gets a few call-outs by other characters. And even though there is a whole ‘nother war in the Pacific and North Asia, we didnt see any of that either. (At least Jones got to kick some ass in 3.1).

So, yeah, I had to accept there would be a lot more AoT coming.