State EPA orders coal mining company to pay major fines and penalties for dumping untreated water into a river near the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
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If the shareholders in network monopolies aren’t prepared to wear the core and highly obvious risks associated with their business, why did we privatise these things in the first place?
I only recently discovered that, like Cory Bernardi in early 20171, Gerard Rennick had been dumped from a winnable seat in the Senate, and had got the hump and attempted, also like Bernardi, unsuccessfully to set up his own party, to try to hang onto his political ‘career’. Rennick, the Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) senator was dumped from a winnable spot on the party’s Queensland ticket in July 2023 in a preselection punch up. Senators Paul Scarr and Susan McDonald were preselected, as expected, in the top two spots.
State Labor government says its 100 Neighbourhood Batteries Program will soon have delivered 139 batteries across the state.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the chief instruments of global capital, has been calling on China for some time to reorient its economic policies and reduce its reliance on exports, with the implied threat there will be retaliation from other major powers if it does not do so.
IMF calls on China to restructure its economy
by Nick Beams
Iran has not backed down in the face of the increasing US military presence in the Middle East, much to the frustration of President Trump. Meanwhile, there have been further student protests in Iran.
Iran: Trump 'curious' as to why Tehran hasn't 'capitulated'
BY Louis Oelofse | Matt Ford with AFP, Reuters
A group of locals are appealing a permit issued for the on-shore transmission infrastructure to connect the Marinus Link undersea cable with the Tasmanian grid.
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French developer of the troubled Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant says it likely to be delayed by a further 12 months, costing the company an additional €2.5 billion.
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Lol, you go girl. Our favorite thorn in the side of the fake left, Drew Pavlou, has been deported back to Australia. Pavlou recently decided to test Billie Eilish’s Grammy Awards statement that “no one is illegal on stolen land.” He joked that, as an illegal immigrant, he would fly to Los Angeles and “occupy”
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GoodWe Australia’s three-phase ESA all-in-one system gets CEC approval for nationwide installations.
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I have been recording an increasing bearishness in the market over the past few weeks. Now it appears the tail risk might be on the other side of the boat, or on both sides. Short interest has rocketed. It’s in the Sardines too. Weirdly, tech is the least shorted. It’s mostly defensives. With vol on
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State Labor government shifts into caretaker mode after locking in "pivotal" plan to launch a major competitive tender for new solar, wind and storage projects.
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South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas let the veil slip last week, claiming in a talk to CEDA that Australia needs high inflows of migrants from poor developing nations to wipe elderly Australians’ bums: “My message to One Nation voters is: who’s going to feed you and bathe you and wipe your bum when you’re 90,
Since the end of 2019, Australia has recorded the strongest net overseas migration (NOM) in the nation’s history, with 266,000 net migrants arriving annually, including the Covid-19 border closures: According to Shane Oliver at AMP, Australia’s cumulative housing shortage is tracking somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000, depending on assumptions about the number of people per