Australia has run one of the strongest immigration programs in the world this century, which has grown the nation’s population by an extraordinary 8.9 million people (based on the latest reading from the ABS Population Clock). Australia’s population growth has outpaced virtually every other developed nation this century, thanks to 20 years of mass migration.

While some commentators will blame anything and everything on renewable energy, new data illustrates how it is helping to push down electricity prices.

The latest Japanese GDP figures were the biggest catalyst here in Asia while a boost in tech stocks is seeing Chinese shares lift higher in afternoon trade. The possibility of an BOJ rate hike maybe lessening on the faster than expected retraction in GDP growth as the Trump regime’s tariff hits exports. Yen strengthened somewhat

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Two Australian innovators with consumer-driven missions to fast-track the uptake of renewables have joined forces, in deal backed by large Canadian pension fund.

By Ross Elliott from The Pulse: Increasingly, I am curious why the presence of a train station on a map immediately conjures up in the minds of some urban planners images of potentially vast numbers of people transiting by rail—an opportunity too good not to capture. ‘Transit-oriented development’ as a concept seems in practice almost