Australia’s housing market has never been this expensive. According to Shane Oliver, chief economist at AMP, home prices nationally are tracking at their highest level ever relative to wages and household disposable incomes: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has already delivered one 0.25% interest rate hike, with the interest rate futures market expecting at
South Korean car and EV maker invests nearly 9 trillion won in an “innovation hub” to advance robotics, artificial intelligence, hydrogen technology and solar energy.
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Another big battery proposal heads to Queensland planning purgatory following requests to call in the project from local council and community.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that there was an imminent threat from Iran.
Within hours of the US launching ‘Operation Epic Fury’ against Iran, Tehran’s forces unleashed retaliatory strikes against American military bases in the Middle East, killing four US troops and destroying billions of dollars’ worth of equipment.
A rule change request from Energy Networks Australia seeks to shift some projects out of the onerous public cost-benefit test.
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Reducing oil dependence and boosting renewables and electric transport is often framed as climate policy. But it is also vital to energy security and national security.
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The Australian electricity grid has closed out the summer of 2025-26 with a month of new renewable generation records – not from solar, but from the nation's wind assets.
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The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda. Propagandists like “Dr Demography” Liz Allen are regular mouthpieces on the pro-Big Australia migration circuit, as are the ANU Migration Hub’s Peter McDonald and Alan Gamlen. Jill Sheppard, a senior lecturer at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations,
Australian renewables pipeline “running laps” around net zero targets. It’s the pace that is lacking
New data on Australia's solar, wind and battery development pipeline confirms that the constraint has never been ambition or opportunity, but the pace of delivery.
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charts from TME. Both skew and volatility are suggesting bearish pressure on stocks. Skew is especially bearish. Yet we refuse to fall. It’s the same for NDX. CDX, which is an index of credit default swaps, is also showing plenty of pressure. This is not bearish. Bond volatility is likewise beginning to MOVE, another bearish
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A recent review of freedom of information (FOI) requests called into doubt the Albanese government’s commitment to transparency. The Centre for Public Integrity, an independent research agency, reported that 24% of FOI requests were denied during Labor’s first term in office. In comparison, the proportion of applications refused ranged from 10% to 18% over the
Yesterday’s job ads data made for confused reading for the RBA. Job ads are rebounding strongly. After a robust 5.2% m/m increase in January, Indeed Australian Job Ads increased 3.2% m/m in February. The series has reached its greatest level since October 2024, with monthly gains since then. This increase in Job Ads occurs at
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The recent housing finance data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that over the December quarter of 2025, $19.310 billion in mortgages was lent to first-home buyers. This was an increase of 16% over the prior quarter and the highest value since the first quarter of 2021: The average size of first-home buyer