On Monday, the federal government organisation the ‘Australian Climate Service’ published its latest National Risk Assessment detailing the potential impact of climate change on the nation. The report modelled scenarios in which global temperatures rose between 1.5°C and 3.0°C above pre-industrial levels out to 2050 and 2100. The Climate service warned that risks to communities,
The Reserve Bank GDP nowcast, released last Friday, forecast that New Zealand’s GDP contracted by 0.4% in Q2 2025. The Reserve Bank’s nowcast was revised lower following the final partial GDP indicators released last week, showing a sharp contraction in the manufacturing sector in Q2 and negligible growth in a range of services industries. On
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As the debate over the right level of migration into the nation continues, I thought it would be interesting to look at some assessments of Australia’s migration system. There are plenty of reports that are scathing of the system’s failures, from its vulnerability to exploitation to its lack of focus on the skilled migrants most
Santos runs two LNG export trains out of Gladstone, Queensland, which siphons up East Coast gas and ships it to Asia (mostly China). Since Santos’ LNG export trains came online in 2015 (alongside others), the volume of gas produced on the East Coast has doubled, while 25% less gas has been supplied to domestic users.
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Earlier this week, Roy Morgan Research released its shadow labour force report, which posted a large 0.8% jump in unemployment in August to 11.1%. Roy Morgan’s unemployment measure was also up a hefty 2.0% year-on-year: Roy Morgan effectively counts someone as unemployed if they want a job but are unable to get one. Therefore, it
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Front-line situation is dire: high casualties and unsustainably high desertion rates.
Gen. Cerski (noted Sept 8) acknowledged Ukraine faces roughly a threefold disadvantage in forces/resources in key sectors.
Ukraine struggles to man the front — manpower is in “terminal decline” while Russia is reportedly achieving net monthly gains.
When Trump announced that the American government would be taking an equity stake in Intel, Mussolini likely turned over in his grave. The blending of Big Business with Government was not invented by Trump or Mussolini, but really is best exemplified by the British East India Company.
Australia’s governments want to ‘solve’ the housing crisis by pushing Australians into high-rise apartments. They ignore that the 2010s decade saw the biggest boom in high-rise apartment construction in Australia’s history, concentrated in the nation’s major capital cities: This unprecedented boom in high-rise apartment complexes resulted in a spike in construction faults and quality issues,
My trusty old LG Art Series airconditioner, installed when we renovated the house (and built my office) about twenty years ago… is no more.
