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Technology designed following the Black Saturday bushfires which can detect grid faults long before they're a problem has landed a $50m investment.

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Nicolás Maduro is chased out of office by a massive popular revolt but the Venezuelan military takes to the streets, turning its guns on the civilians who have brought him down.

Asian share markets are having a rough start to the trading week as the combination of lower trading volumes heading into the end of the calendar year combined with a lot of movement expected around central bank meetings this week increase volatility across the complex. Yen is up against USD on strong data with a

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Two new big battery projects have been energised on Australia's main grid in the past few days, underlining the speed and scale of the storage rollout in Australia.

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose grandfather was a member of the Nazi Party, has compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.

A groundbreaking trial to test an innovative alternative to rooftop solar export tariffs will run for another year and with double the number of participants.

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It’s going to be a busy week for the Australian dollar which has been on a tear recently against a broadening weakness building in USD (now down over 3% in two weeks). With a slew of central bank decisions in the next few days and the long awaited, delayed and possibly massaged US non-farm payrolls

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SEEK has released its November labour market data, which contains both positives and negatives. SEEK reported a 0.5% decline in job ads over the month of November. Job ads were also down 0.9% over the quarter and 1.9% year-on-year. However, the number of applications per job ad held stable at a historically high level. The

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The final report from the Federal Senate Inquiry into the Quality of Governance at Australian Higher Education Providers delivered a scathing assessment, largely focused on the corporatisation of public universities and its negative impact on students, staff, and the sector’s public mission. The report slammed “poor governance, wrongly focused decision-making, and poor employment practices” for

Germany once operated over 22 GW of nuclear capacity, producing around 160 TWh annually at low cost and without emissions. Following the Fukushima accident in 2011, Berlin accelerated closures, shutting 8 GW immediately and completing the phase-out by 2023. However, renewables could not provide stable baseload power. As a result, the shortfall was filled by

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Recently U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance retweeted a copy of a chart from Ice Cap Asset Management showing that growth in Canada’s GDP per capita had significantly underperformed both Britain and the United States since 2016. “While I’m sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into “diversity is our strength, we don’t

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MB sympathises with all of those affected by yesterday’s Bondi disaster. We have only one thing to add to the fury. The Levantine war has been running in one form or another for over two millennia. Yet, in the post-OPEC era, it has never been less relevant to Australia. Why has the Australian government entered

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release the official population and net overseas migration (NOM) data for the June quarter of 2025 on Thursday. Ahead of this release, the latest population indicators from the ABS are pointing to rising NOM. On Friday, the ABS released monthly net permanent and long-term (NPLT) arrivals data for

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