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The NAB survey was out yesterday and showed ongoing disinflation in all cost inputs. These costs are the equivalent of 0.6-0.7% per quarter inflation. Hardly terrifying, especially since the survey also indicated an ongoing jobless recovery, with the employment measure stuck at 3, where it has been all year. With the transition from job-intensive spending

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Major funding cuts to US data agencies threaten Australia's weather forecasting and climate modelling, as scientists warn of a rise in attacks and misinformation.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) latest Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) revised its medium-term unemployment rate forecast to 4.4%, up from 4.3%. As illustrated below by Alex Joiner from IFM Investors, the RBA’s unemployment rate forecast to the end of 2027 is slightly lower than the current unemployment rate of 4.5%: Therefore, the RBA

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Clean energy fund manager and developer reaches financial close on its second major firmed renewables project this year.

‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg....

Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today

Ryan Gilbey writes about film and theatre for the Guardian

To Bill Gates, overthrowing the power of the ultra-wealthy seems to be – literally – unthinkable.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th November 2025

Prosper Australia today welcomed the inclusion of a stamp duty to land tax transition in Infrastructure Victoria’s new strategy but criticised the absence of value capture as a sustainable and equitable funding mechanism. “We applaud Infrastructure Victoria’s endorsement of a broad-based annual land tax. This reform recognises that shifting the tax base from transactions to […]

Not quite a green a day as expected here in Asia with only some markets moving higher in the wake of the news that the Republican shutdown of the US government may finally be coming to an end. While gold continued to push higher, other undollars like the Kiwi and Australian dollar have steadied with

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Chris Bowen's offer of three hours of free solar power is a step in the right direction towards time-of-use tariffs. But with bigger changes, we can do better.

Scotland’s first ever wind farm has been successfully re-powered with five-times more capacity using almost half as many turbines.

Stats New Zealand’s most recent migration figures revealed that only 10,628 net migrants arrived in the country in the year ending August 2025, substantially below the decade average of 49,000 and around 120,000 fewer than the late 2023 peak. Part of the decline in New Zealand’s net migration is attributable to large numbers of Kiwis

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