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
Perhaps the worst publication in Australia (and that’s saying something), Crikey, today lauds the arrival of Canadian PM Mark Carney. “Prime Minister Carney’s visit is an opportunity to further strengthen cooperation on investment, economic security and critical minerals, defence, and links between our institutions and communities,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last month. Carney’s visit comes
Ross Elliott of The Pulse wrote an outstanding article about the administrative bloat that has enveloped Australia’s planning industry. Elliott notes that lawyers he has spoken with told him “they didn’t really know how many [planning-related] pages of rules and regulations were now in force—just that it would be so many as to be impossible
Nominations were declared yesterday afternoon for South Australia’s 47 House of Assembly seats as well as the Legislative Council contest.
There was a very large increase in candidates compared to the last election, and well in excess of the previous record.
388 candidates have nominated for the House of Assembly. This is a big increase on the 240 who ran in 2022. The previous record was 302 candidates in 2002, so that record has been well and truly beaten. There are 8.3 candidates per seat on average.
DXY is rising faster than an Iranian SAM. And why not. The Iran war is bad for all energy importers, including Europe, Japan, and China. It is good for US shale. AUD held up, but for how long? Oil and gold to the moon. AI metals not so much. Mining parabolas intact. EM not so
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Andrew Forrest's huge wind plans to power his Pilbara mining operations have undergone a "substantial redesign," proposing to halve its footprint, while shooting for the same 2.1 GW of capacity.