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Mining giant pledges more than $35 million towards the development of a demonstration plant for NSW-originated zero emissions steel technology.

Swiss executives gave luxury gifts for US President Donald Trump shortly before Bern and Washington announced a new trade deal that reduces the steep US import tariffs, according to media reports.

Somewhere around 2085, give or take a few years, the last baby boomer will die. But their story is not, in the end, a story about age.

It is the biography of a system of capitalism in its most confident, expansive and self-mythologising phase. The Boomers were not the authors of that story so much as its children and its protagonists, born into a time when growth was god and history appeared to have direction.

There is a strange paradox at the heart of the whole de-dollarization trend. Both the BRICS upstarts seeking alternatives to the dollar and the aging hegemon trying to forestall this process have, at least officially, coalesced around a similar but not entirely accurate narrative: that the gradual pivot away from the dollar is primarily driven by Washington’s weaponization of its currency.

Footage of an electricity transmission tower collapsing in pile of dust would usually be cause for alarm, but in this video it's being celebrated as a "perfect failure."

SunCable says it hopes to deliver first power from its massive "firmed solar" project by the end of the decade, and is in talks with first customers.

Despite the end of the 50-year bipolar period known as the Cold War in the 1990s and the subsequent twenty-year unipolar world order, the world is currently splitting into two camps again. One of them is once again being led by the United States, and has roughly the same composition. The leader of the second camp is now China. 

The Indo-Pacific Game Intensifies

Vladimir Terehov

CEFC invests $50 million to help provider of student accommodation accelerate electrification and kick out gas across the its nationwide portfolio.

Queensland planning minister Jarrod Bleijie says there is nothing the developer of a cancelled wind project can do to make it palatable to him.

The justifications for the Coalition's new climate and energy policy make no sense. Plus: Bob Brown's Richo lament, baseload bollocks and nasty business in Queensland.

It appears that the average Australian knows more about housing affordability than YIMBY lobbyists, such as the Grattan Institute and the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS). The Report from the 2025 Australian Cooperative Election Survey by Macquarie University, based on the views of 4,012 survey participants, showed that immigration/population growth was considered the leading contributor

Pauline Hanson is fast becoming the opposition. The Coalition’s decision to abandon its commitment to net zero emissions as part of a dramatic weakening of its energy policy has failed to arrest its slide in popularity, with a new poll showing support plummeting while the One Nation vote has continued to surge. The Australian Financial Review/ Redbridge/Accent

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The vicious Guinean junta knows how to run a resource economy better than we do. Guinea plans to launch its first sovereign wealth fund by the second quarter of 2026 with an initial $1 billion, its planning minister said, as the West African nation moves to leverage a flood of revenues from its giant Simandou

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