Days after dumping its renewable energy targets and pledging billions of dollars in support of coal power generation, state launches rebate targeting solar for renters.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose grandfather was a member of the Nazi Party, has compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.
Australia's biggest wind farm has been commissioned on time, and may have found a blueprint for others to follow.
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A groundbreaking trial to test an innovative alternative to rooftop solar export tariffs will run for another year and with double the number of participants.
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Abundance defines the day as wind and solar curtailment hits new peaks, accounting for more than 90 per cent of one state's demand. More batteries then.
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It’s going to be a busy week for the Australian dollar which has been on a tear recently against a broadening weakness building in USD (now down over 3% in two weeks). With a slew of central bank decisions in the next few days and the long awaited, delayed and possibly massaged US non-farm payrolls
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The New South Wales government has given the planning green light to the $209 million Armidale battery energy storage system (BESS), which will boast capacity of 150 megawatts (MW)/437 megawatt-hours (MWh).
SEEK has released its November labour market data, which contains both positives and negatives. SEEK reported a 0.5% decline in job ads over the month of November. Job ads were also down 0.9% over the quarter and 1.9% year-on-year. However, the number of applications per job ad held stable at a historically high level. The
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After the horrendous events of December 14th, it didn’t take long before self-serving lies of people like Netanyahu surfaced.
The final report from the Federal Senate Inquiry into the Quality of Governance at Australian Higher Education Providers delivered a scathing assessment, largely focused on the corporatisation of public universities and its negative impact on students, staff, and the sector’s public mission. The report slammed “poor governance, wrongly focused decision-making, and poor employment practices” for
Back in 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping coined what has become a legendary phrase: “Housing is for living in and not for speculation.” For years after Xi uttered these now-famous words, many Chinese property investors refused to listen; they continued to pour trillions of dollars into property speculation, even as the number of empty homes
Germany once operated over 22 GW of nuclear capacity, producing around 160 TWh annually at low cost and without emissions. Following the Fukushima accident in 2011, Berlin accelerated closures, shutting 8 GW immediately and completing the phase-out by 2023. However, renewables could not provide stable baseload power. As a result, the shortfall was filled by
Recently U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance retweeted a copy of a chart from Ice Cap Asset Management showing that growth in Canada’s GDP per capita had significantly underperformed both Britain and the United States since 2016. “While I’m sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into “diversity is our strength, we don’t
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Life has gotten significantly more difficult for Australian tenants over the past five years. According to Cotality, the national median advertised rent soared by 43.8% over the five years to September 2025. As a result, the percentage of median household income required to meet the median advertised rent rose to a record high of 33.4%
MB sympathises with all of those affected by yesterday’s Bondi disaster. We have only one thing to add to the fury. The Levantine war has been running in one form or another for over two millennia. Yet, in the post-OPEC era, it has never been less relevant to Australia. Why has the Australian government entered
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