|
MacroBusiness
Sunday, December 14, 2025 - 10:44
Source
Cotality’s preliminary auction results show that buyer demand continues to wilt in Sydney, where the preliminary clearance rate has fallen to a 12-month low of just 58.1%. “While the reduction in volume is following the typical seasonal pattern, the gradual easing in auction clearance rates, which has been evident since mid-September, has more to do The post Sydney’s housing market stalls as affordability bites appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, December 14, 2025 - 10:24
Source
The famed Liberal Party powerbroker Walter Villatora is a former campaign manager for Mike Baird and Tony Abbott. Believing the “Liberal Party is finished”, he resigned his membership last week to start his own conservative party, Reform Australia.
Ex-Liberal Party powerbroker says ‘the party is over’ |
|
MacroBusiness
Sunday, December 14, 2025 - 09:47
Source
By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA The RBA left the cash rate on hold in a unanimous decision that was widely expected. The Statement took a step in the hawkish direction, but it was the Governor’s post meeting press conference that cemented the end of the easing cycle and warned of potential hikes. The The post The economic week ahead appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, December 14, 2025 - 06:55
Source
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has been lobbying senior figures in the US to supply Australia with retiring nuclear submarines to give the nation strike power if conflict over Taiwan breaks out before its AUKUS submarines are delivered.
‘Need more firepower now’: US should give Australia retired nuclear subs, says Abbott By Paul Sakkal and Jacqueline Maley
|
|
Your Democracy
Sunday, December 14, 2025 - 06:55
Source
While the Coalition and Murdoch media ramp up their campaign against renewable energy, renewables set yet another record – more than half the grid for the first time. What’s the scam? The scam is the Coalition campaign to blame renewables for rising electricity prices has just gone into overdrive with Murdoch mastheads splashing today on energy bill scaremongering. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, December 14, 2025 - 05:44
Source
China, Iran, and Russia denounce the lies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom regarding Iran’s nuclear program by Amir Saeid Iravani , Fu Cong , Vasily Nebenzya |
|
THE BLOT REPORT
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 17:01
Source
The current US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) was involved in litigation against Merck over its Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, alleging marketing fraud and undisclosed side effects, and stood to earn significant referral fees from the lawsuit, which raised ethics concerns as he was considered for his current government role. |
Your Democracy
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 14:59
Source
GUS: It was 100 years ago in December 1925 that Heisenberg finally formulated his UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE... HE PUBLISHED IT IN 1927....
THEREAFTER:.... |
|
Your Democracy
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 11:14
Source
US Sen. John Fetterman recently asked Israel’s president to pardon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who is on trial in his country for alleged bribery, fraud, and breach of trust—Talking Points Memo revealed on Thursday.
|
Your Democracy
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 10:42
Source
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is suggesting the idea of holding elections as a ploy to secure a ceasefire, top Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told RT. Moscow has insisted that Kiev would use the pause in fighting to rearm and regroup. The Kremlin’s response comes as Zelensky, whose presidential term expired over a year ago, has demanded security guarantees from Western backers in order to hold the vote. |
|
Your Democracy
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 07:57
Source
|
Your Democracy
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 07:31
Source
Swiss singer Nemo announced on Thursday that he is returning his 2024 Eurovision Song Contest trophy in protest over Israel’s continued participation in the competition. Nemo, who won last year’s contest with the song ‘The Code’, said on Thursday that the trophy “no longer belongs on my shelf.” |
|
Your Democracy
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 06:55
Source
Mary Kostakidis, a national TV news presenter in Australia for two decades, has asked a federal judge to throw out the Zionist Federation’s charge against her of racially vilifying Jews, reports Joe Lauria. |
Renew Economy
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 06:00
Source
The post Another $5 billion tipped into Cheaper Home Batteries, but rebates slashed for bigger systems appeared first on Renew Economy. |
|
MacroBusiness
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 00:05
Source
International Reading: Trump Hit With His Worst-Ever Approval Rating on the Economy – Daily Beast Trump Moves to End a Major Student Loan Forgiveness Program – Time U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic – PBS Fed Chair Jerome Powell Says U.S. May Be Drastically The post Weekend Reading and MB Media Appearances appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 21:01
Source
Memo to the unelected Eurobozos of the European Union’s executive branch 'responsible' for setting policy: just because you keep calling a pile of cash you’re hell-bent on handing over to Ukraine a “loan” doesn’t mean it actually is. |
|
Your Democracy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 17:20
Source
|
MacroBusiness
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 15:00
Source
Asian share markets are doing quite well in the final but relatively quiet session of the trading week with the USD falling overnight on the bad but good initial jobless claims showing a soft US labour market helping supporting the risk taking. The Australian dollar has taken back its recent dip following the poor local The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
|
Renew Economy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 14:57
Source
The post Rooftop solar and batteries on centre stage: Six key graphs from AEMO’s transition roadmap appeared first on Renew Economy. |
Renew Economy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 14:54
Source
The post Will the lights go out if we don’t have baseload? “No, absolutely not,” say those whose job it is to keep them on appeared first on Renew Economy. |
|
Renew Economy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 14:52
Source
The post Energy Insiders Podcast: A blueprint to quit coal, and go green appeared first on Renew Economy. |
Renew Economy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 14:27
Source
The post Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter gets promise of cheaper, renewable power from feds and state appeared first on Renew Economy. |
|
Renew Economy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 14:13
Source
The post Bigger home batteries may get smaller rebates in urgent tweaks to red-hot household storage market appeared first on Renew Economy. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 14:00
Source
Late last month, Cotality and Proptrack published two critical housing affordability reports. Cotality’s research revealed that the national median home price relative to median household income reached a new high of 8.2 in Q3 2025, up from 6.4 five years earlier in Q3 2020. The amount of income required to service a new mortgage on The post Housing affordability: from bad to worse appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
|
Renew Economy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 13:23
Source
The post Offshore wind plans given major project status as sector hits “critical inflection point” appeared first on Renew Economy. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 13:00
Source
From the Market Ear: Big in small Russell extending the break out move. This looks like an inverse head and shoulders formation. Plenty of room to run before we reach trend channel highs. The Russell fear fade Russell volatility, RVX, just closed at the lowest levels since March. Tech volatility, VXN, not so much… Wow The post Silver Explodes, AI Wobbles appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
|
Your Democracy
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 12:01
Source
|
MacroBusiness
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 12:00
Source
Australia’s elite universities are accelerating their global expansion plans in response to the federal government’s decision to cap foreign student numbers. Concerned about losing revenue from international enrolments, institutions such as the University of Sydney, UNSW, and the University of Melbourne are exploring offshore campuses in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, partnerships, and joint |
|
Prosper Australia
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 11:48
Source
By Andrew Purves Growing up in Hong Kong in the 1970s, I remember the noise and disruption of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) construction. Cut-and-cover tunnelling tore up roads, while new property developments rose above the stations. These developments would reshape Hong Kong’s urban landscape — little did I know that I would be writing […] The post Paying for Hong Kong’s mass transit railway first appeared on Prosper Australia. |
MacroBusiness
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 11:30
Source
When Labor was in opposition, then Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers was a strong proponent of a wide variety of metrics that are championed by economists as more accurate indicators of economic performance. This earned him respect, even from his rivals, though only behind closed doors. But since coming to power, his focus has often turned The post Treasurer Chalmers throws stones in glass house appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Albanese government doubles down on Cheaper Home Batteries, tipping new funding into the red-hot scheme and adjusting its settings to make it go further.
A quick graphic summary of AEMO's transition blueprint. Less transmission than you have been told, less gas, less wind, more batteries and a lot of rooftop PV.
Australia's green energy transition risks being stymied by a political obsession over "baseload". AEMO's Nicola Falcon explains why this misses the point.
AEMO's Nicola Falcon runs through the draft 2026 Integrated System Plan, and explains why baseload is not essential to keep the lights on. Plus, news of the week.
Australia's largest aluminium smelter has been handed a government lifeline to ensure it keeps running amid spiralling energy costs.
Industry braces for imminent changes to the Cheaper Home Batteries rebate amid negotiations on steps to avoid a "boom-bust" scenario.
Major offshore wind project wins Major Project Status, in a show of commitment from the federal government just one week after another project was snuffed out.