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Renew Economy loves to boast whenever wind and solar generation spike and comprise an oversized share of electricity generation. For example, on 23 June 2025, Renew Economy boasted that wind generation hit a record across eastern Australia: “According to data from GPE NEMLog, wind and solar set a new output peak of 12,563 megawatts (MW)

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Renters and apartment dwellers are at risk of being locked out of the energy transition, but solutions are coming.

In the debate surrounding housing affordability, it is suggested that a politician pushing for lower home prices would be political Kryptonite: a death knell for whatever party they are attached to. This narrative has been repeated year after year, decade after decade, but is it really as politically damaging as the BBQ-side political commentary suggests?

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Australia’s housing market has been on a tear, with Cotality’s daily dwelling values index surging by 1% over the past 28 days across the five major capital city markets, the strongest growth rate in two years: The surge in home values follows the most bullish house price expectations in 15 years, according to Westpac’s monthly

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Victoria disease finally has a cure. The state will assist you in shuffling off this mortal coil. Voluntary assisted dying reform has passed the lower house of the Victorian Parliament to applause and embrace. Labor and the Coalition both granted their members a conscience vote. It gave MPs the rare chance to offer – and

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Japan and Korea know how to play the king. Anything Japan can do, South Korea can do better? A day after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi laid on the flattery during US President Donald Trump’s visit to Tokyo, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung welcomed him by presenting him with a golden crown. The Korean

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Sometimes markets are nothing more than denial machines. Iron ore prices are clearly bullish and set for a breakout. The basis of this could not be thinner. The price of 62% Fe grade iron ore fines from Australia delivered to China increased by US$0.80 to US$106.25. The rise was primarily driven by better market sentiment

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Economists at one of Canada’s largest banks, Toronto-Dominion Bank, published a report assessing the impacts of the Canadian government’s “population freeze”, which aims to alleviate pressures on the nation’s economic and social infrastructure. Last year, the government introduced an immigration plan to right-size non-permanent residents (NPRs) and permanent resident (PR) targets to allow for some

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Risk markets fell back overnight as the long expected cut from the Federal Reserve was followed by a lot of cautionary talk by Chair Powell, indicating that this may well be the last cut for awhile as the push through effect of tariffs on inflation might stall further cuts. Wall Street flopped back while the

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DXY won’t go away. AUD pumped and dumped. Still running on the spot. CNY up! Gold and oil yuck. AI metals don’t care. RIO going parabolic. EM wants ATH, Tough with DXY. Junk rejection is a warning. As yields jackknifed on a not dovish enough Fed. AI doesn’t care. The Fed is confused. In support

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“Keeping perspective” is Michael Pascoe’s mantra. He writes that AI mania has not just warped perspective, it risks blowing up reality.

Over more decades than I care to count of market watching and reporting, I haven’t seen a time when there’s been more wide-spread conviction that we’re experiencing a dangerous bubble that’s sure to pop, yet the money keeps pouring in to inflate it. 

What makes a life virtuous? The answer might seem simple: virtuous actions – actions that align with morality.

But life is more than doing. Frequently, we just think. We observe and spectate; meditate and contemplate. Life often unfolds in our heads.