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The cosmetics industry will tell you that sun damage is the worst thing to happen to your skin, and until now the photovoltaic industry held similar views about solar cells.

The December NAB survey has wiped out rate cuts for the time being. Business conditions increased to +9. Business confidence increased slightly to +3. Employment remained stable at 4, which is roughly around the breakeven rate for unemployment. At 83.2%, capacity utilisation is still high. Sales, which increased by three points to a historically high

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Fascism has been so misappropriated by the fake left that we should define it before we discuss it. Let’s turn to a source infinitely more accurate than journalists. ChatGPT. Fascism is a political ideology and system of government that centers on strong, centralized power, extreme nationalism, and the suppression of opposition and individual freedoms. In

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Old and inflexible, costly and dirty: Coal generators may be kept online longer than many hoped, but within a decade most will be gone, new report finds.

In my experience, there is nothing worse than an academic with a business vision. The academic has neither the real-world nous nor the thick skin to withstand the temptations of greed and dealmaking. There is no better example than the parlous state of the Australian tertiary sector. It has become the kernel of the great

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January 2026 marks a year since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Few national leaders can compete with Trump when it comes to public engagement and the range of global issues tackled. He is undoubtedly the most quoted head of state. However, the high level of media attention to America’s domestic and foreign policies is a double-edged sword for the current US administration.

In 2023, Labor MP Julian Hill, who is the Assistant Minister for Citizenship, Customs and Multicultural Affairs, and Assistant Minister for International Education, described Australia’s international education system as resembling a “Ponzi scheme”, accusing agents of misusing student visas by promoting them as cheap work visas with pathways to permanent residency. Phil Honeywood, the CEO

In the lead-up to December’s Q2 population release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), several key data sets were pointing to rebounding net overseas migration (NOM). First, the Q3 national accounts, released just a few weeks prior in early December, showed that Australia’s population growth had rebounded: Second, the civilian (15-plus) population data released

Its all about the structural “off-America” risk trade with the US dollar index now down to a four month low with the Australian dollar making another new high as it surged through the 69 cent level at the start of the trading week. Gold and silver surged again while Wall Street kept hope alive as

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Labour force data released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that the nation’s official unemployment rate eased to a seven-month low of 4.1% in December. The result compared with 4.3% in November and economists’ expectations that unemployment would rise to 4.4%. The latest Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) from the Reserve

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Australia’s leaders are trying to avoid becoming a target in a harsher, more coercive world. But silence and caution can’t substitute for strategy – or for honest leadership that levels with the public.

Higher Australian foreign policy has probably never been so simple. Our government, and probably an alternative coalition government (if anyone could imagine such a thing), would like very much to escape international attention for as long as possible.

Moscow and Washington will not engage in dialogue with Brussels’ foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Peskov made the remarks after the US, Russia and Ukraine concluded their first round of three-way negotiations in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. EU officials have complained that, despite providing military and financial aid to Kiev, the bloc has been largely excluded from the talks.

Global warming is one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity today. As emissions continue to rise, global temperatures keep breaking records and the world's poorest nations bear the brunt of a crisis they did little to create.

Time to fix responsibility for climate change

By Hu Yong | CHINA DAILY