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AGL boss Damien Nicks discusses how the country's biggest coal generator is managing the transition to renewables, storage and electric homes. Plus: When will another wind farm get finance?

Albo’s anti-American rabble is mounting is pretending to care about ANZUS. The Australian. As Richard Marles engaged in high-level speed dating with ­Donald Trump’s top officials in the White House, Anthony Albanese was rolling out the red carpet in Canberra for an influential US Republican congressman. After a seven-month pursuit, Albanese is within striking distance

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Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen looks at the difference between GDP and company profits, discussing when you can get divergences and how investors should think about returns. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at

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As a concept, the sovereign citizen movement, individuals identifying as sovereign citizens or something similar have existed in Australia for decades. These beliefs have been manifest in the various ways these people attempt to dissociate themselves from societal structures1. These range from eccentrics like Prince Leonard of ‘Hutt River Province’ who attempted to set up his own ‘micronation’ on a remote bit of land, even to the extent of creating his own flag, currency and stamps2, to extreme libertarians who choose not to pay taxes or to get such things as drivers’ licences1.

The chair of the government’s National Housing Supply and Affordability Council (NHSAC), Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, who is a former chief executive of property developer Mirvac, has warned that Australia faces a generational housing crisis. Lloyd-Hurwitz said that while there is no easy fix to the housing crisis, governments “should be building more social housing to take

Earlier this week, Alan Kohler penned an article at the ABC arguing that immigration was the key issue missing from the federal government’s productivity roundtable held last week in Canberra. Kohler noted that “at least 800,000 more people came to live in Australia over the past four years than Treasury anticipated. That’s more than three extra

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Bowen launches tenders for 1.6 GW of renewables and 2.4 GWh of storage to add to the isolated WA grid in the latest two rounds of its Capacity Investment Scheme.

Cecile Wake is Shell Australia country chair and executive vice president Integrated Gas Australia. She has pumped more industry propaganda at The AFR: This year alone, Australia’s natural gas industry will deliver $21.9 billion in taxes and royalties—on par with the nation’s biggest banks and miners. But this success story is under threat. Queensland LNG

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The first half of 2025 saw a record number of applications to build new onshore wind turbines approved across Germany.

On 15 August, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska, the first head-of-state meeting between the two countries since the Ukraine War began.

It was widely panned as a “shameful” and “vomit-inducing” episode where Putin apparently came out on top.

Jersey Lee

Taking a win from Alaska

Australia's biggest wind project reached two significant milestones, including the final concrete pour for the 215 turbine foundations.

For almost two decades, household formation rates for 25 to 34-year-olds have been tanking. The decline kicked off as the impact of the new ‘Big Australia’ migration intake began dramatically impacting the rental market in the final years of the Howard government. As the ABS chart below illustrates, between mid-2005 and mid-2008, asking rents in

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I finally stopped nitpicking the World War 3.2 manuscript long enough to send a proof copy to my rock-steady crew at Patreon. If that includes you, check your email for the freebie.

That took a lot longer than expected, mostly through my own choices. As soon as I decided to go wild and write as many fucking words/chapters/books/whatever as I needed to finally wrap this thing up, my outline for 3.2 became obsolete. I started asking myself, since space was no longer an issue, where could I go with this thing?