Queensland's troubled coal plant suffers new outages, just two months after huge maintenance spend, leading to evacuation and new questions about LNG energy plan.
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A turbine fire at ageing wind farm causes five-hour shutdown as owner mulls options for repowering the facility.
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Firefighters investigate cause of blaze in Adelaide, which has caused major damage to energy company 1Komma5º's solar panel and battery warehouse.
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Although batteries still account for a modest share of total capacity, they are exerting a disproportionate influence in Australia's main grids.
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TME with the details. That was the soft launch They told us AI was a chatbot. A productivity toy. A nicer autocomplete. That was the soft launch. In its latest Tech Predictions, CB Insights argues that AI’s next phase is no longer digital, but physical. Models are moving into machines, vehicles, warehouses, and defense systems,
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The first of two current shipments from Simndou has arrived in China. There are no reports of further January shipments. Operations are limited by the return of 18 locomotives to China, which were supposed instead to be made by Wabtec (Westinghouse) or in the US. Another 37 locomotives are scheduled for delivery by March, and
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With the release of the latest gross operating company profit data from the ABS, it was revealed that they were flat in nominal terms for the quarter, despite analysts expecting a 1.5% quarter-over-quarter rise. This result leaves the nation’s gross operating company profits in an undesirable position when it comes to contributing to GDP, up
BofA’s master strategist is bullish on China. The Price is Right:“new world order = new world bull” as Trump drives global fiscal excess; stay long international stocks (Chart 3) as US exceptionalism positions rotate to global rebalancing (note $1.6tn US equity inflow in 2020s vs. just $0.4tn to global funds–Chart 4); China our favorite long
You can always tell how murderous the U.S. empire is being from day to day from the expression on warmongering senator Lindsey Graham’s face, and right now he looks like he just found his mother dead in the bathtub.
Caitlin Johnstone: Just Read Lindsey Graham’s Face
Lindsey Graham’s long face is encouraging. Maybe war with Iran really has been put off for the time being.
Since the Albanese government came to power in May 2022, the size of day-to-day government spending relative to GDP has gotten larger and larger, to the point where only the absolute height of the Covid panic saw government playing a greater role in the economy. Concerns about this meteoric rise have often been dismissed and
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“The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition that’s true,” Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, said in a notable CNN interview last week.
It’s baaaaack, and it’s not much improved. The government is edging closer to passing most of its hate speech laws, with the Coalition open to striking a deal that would bolster safeguards to address fears about an overreach of new powers to criminalise hate groups. …the Coalition wants to impose safeguards around a power that
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With the release of the latest Commonwealth Bank Household Spending data, it was revealed that for yet another year most households saw their spending go backwards once adjusted for inflation. In headline terms, the result was relatively robust at first glance: growth of 0.7% for the month of December and 6.3% for the 2025 calendar