We used to be journalists, but now we mostly just bitch about them. (Kidding. Kind of.) We also break down broken news.
Since 1945, one country has carried out a conventional military buildup unmatched in scale, cost and global reach. Claims about recent rivals distract from the historical record of how modern military dominance was built.
Scapegoating migrants is designed to distract our attention from the truth and real issues – the abuse of corporate and media power and failure to tackle housing shortages for younger generations.
Russia’s stance that the Ukraine conflict can only be resolved if its root causes are addressed is “s**t,” Vladimir Zelensky has said.
The Ukrainian leader is increasingly using profanities in public statements and insulting those who disagree with his policies.
I was interviewed via email earlier this week by Harrison Christian, a senior reporter at News.com.au, asking why the US economy is performing so much better than Australia’s. In particular: US real GDP growth is 4.4%, compared with Australia’s 2.1%. US CPI inflation is 2.4% compared with Australia’s 3.8%. The US is still cutting interest
Expensive gas is not viable for Whyalla Steelworks, in the interim or the long-term. If we’re going to do massive subsidies, let’s at least back the best solution for a decarbonising world.
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Alcoa has been given the green light to clear more Australian forest after being fined for stripping land for bauxite mining without the right approvals.
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Solar is cheap and easy to build for Fortescue, and working in the Pilbara gives the company more leeway to try some things not allowed elsewhere in Australia.
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Talk about exquisitely bad timing. On Friday, the federal Liberal Party’s latest leadership spill – a mere nine months after the last one – showed the ability of the members of the federal parliamentary party to lose their heads when all about were keeping theirs.
The result, as history recorded, was Angus Taylor defeating leader Sussan Ley 34-17.
First phase of integrated solar and battery project is synchronised and energised, on the way to becoming the world’s largest project of its kind.
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Queensland coal generator celebrates the commercial start of its first big battery, which will provide essential firming capacity and reliability "within fractions of a second."
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By Salvatore Babones, Associate Professor at Sydney University and author of the book “Australia’s Universities, Can They Reform” Universities Australia (UA) has published its pre-budget submission, and it opens with the claim that its members educate “1.5 million Australians every year”. That is incorrect. They educate roughly 1.5 million people every year—of whom only about
A solar and battery project proposed for the NSW Hunter region has been dropped by the developer, in what has been described as a "really welcome outcome" for local communities.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) revised its forecasts on CPI inflation and wage growth in the February Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP), as summarised below: The key takeaway was that the RBA does not anticipate that real wages will recover over the forward estimates, as illustrated below: By the June quarter of 2028, Australia’s real