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Liberal Party holds hours-long talks on climate and energy, with nuclear still top of mind and no firm commitment to net zero.

Amber's Chris Thompson talks home batteries and V2G at All Energy, while RE-Alliance's Andrew Bray and Uralla Council's Emily Sims discuss social licence in New England. And the news of the week, including EPBC and Tomago.

Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro published the following chart comparing the official cash rates of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) against the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ). Fabo stated on Twitter (X) that “the RBNZ often goes harder in both directions on rates”, in reference to its recent higher peak and lower trough

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Two new energy innovators are emerging as the big winners of the federal government's battery rebate scheme – and leading the charge to the democratisation of energy.

In decades now long passed, the issue of migration was largely one of practical considerations, defined by questions such as: How many new arrivals per year is viable? How many homes do we need to build? What skills base needs to be expanded? What is the right path toward integrating new arrivals into society while

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Environment advocates and industry groups are critical of elements of the federal government's proposed fixes to broken nature protection laws.

In the annals of wasted public investment, few attempts to build an industry can compete with the abject failure of hydrogen. $60 billion in incentives are available for hydrogen research and production, most of it sitting on the shelf, unused. Hydrogen was only ever going to be a niche industrial gas for decarbonising such things

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Housing minister Clare O’Neil continues her blame game and propaganda tour, this time taking aim at the Greens for “blocking” the construction of new homes: O’Neil’s latest attack follows the dismal dwelling construction data released this month by the ABS, which showed that completions fell by 2% in 2024-25 and were tracking 65,970 (27%) below

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Australia is experiencing its worst rental crisis in living memory. According to Cotality, the number of homes listed for rent across the combined capital cities is tracking at its lowest level on record following an 18.5% annual decline. Australia’s rental vacancy rate has also declined to a record low of 1.5% nationally, down 0.4% over

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DXY is back. AUD is being sat on by an elephant. CNY did like the trade truce. Gold is trying as the Fed hawked up, expecting Trump to go nuts. AI metals falmed out with AI. Big miners shooting star. EM too. Junk no bueno. Yields back-up. Tech dwn. Charlie McElligott sums it nicely. Jerome

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Risk markets fell were uneasy overnight on the so-called US-China truce out of the summit between the Trump and Xi regimes with Wall Street falling back despite very solid earnings from Amazon as Meta was dumped more than 11% on AI troubles. The USD reasserted its recent strength against all the majors – except gold

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The Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers, which came into effect on 1 October, had the desired effect on home prices. Cotality’s daily dwelling values index, which covers the five major capital city markets, surged by 1.1% in October, driven by Perth (1.9%), Brisbane (1.6%), and Adelaide (1.4%). Over the October quarter,

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Kremlin vows response if US violates nuclear moratoriumUS leader Donald Trump earlier said he had ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear arms trials

Russia will respond “accordingly” if the US violates a moratorium on testing nuclear weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.