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The ANU's Jorrit Gosens on China's thirst for green steel and the opportunities for Australia. Plus: News of the week and stranded wind and solar projects.

Plans for a solar farm and big battery sail through federal environmental approval process in less than two months, but could face rougher seas at the state level.

Every few weeks, the world’s media publishes an article on a fantastical breakthrough in electric vehicle (EV) battery technology that enables cars to be charged in as little as five minutes. These technological breakthroughs are supposedly set to revolutionise EVs by allowing owners to charge up quickly away from home, removing some of the key

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Gold is the new (old) global reserve currency so long as the child president continues his assault upon the institutions of Bretton Woods II. So much harm has been done to US institutions in such a short period by the child president that his very presence is now an enduring threat to the Bretton Woods

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The taxpayer-funded ABC refuses to discuss the immigration-housing issue with objectivity and balance. On Wednesday, I lambasted the ABC for choosing two well-renowned Big Australia propagandists—the ANU Migration Hub’s resident shill, Alan Gamlen, and the Grattan Institute (which is sponsored by Big Australia lobby group, the Scanlon Foundation)—to debunk the claim that excessive migration is

If you want further evidence that the education export industry is a giant migration scam, look no further than the latest report on “phantom” students from The Australian: Foreign students from Africa, Pakistan and India have been reported missing from universities… Phantom students have been exposed by the Queensland University of Technology, which revealed nearly

Australia’s states often swing in different ways, with trends noticeable at the state level rather than just at the state or regional level. For this reason, I usually choose to measure 2PP results against the state result, rather than the national result.

At the 2010 federal election, the Coalition gained swings in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia, but Labor actually gained ground in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

As the Trump regime folds faster than a dodgy poor chair on its tariff tirade against China, risk sentiment is bouncing back across most but not all markets with US and European stocks surging overnight while the USD firmed against the undollars. However, bond markets remain in flux with the 10 year Treasury yield almost

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Nine days from the election, Peter Dutton still hasn't decided what sort of campaign he is running: The result: constant backflips on energy and climate.

The president is bringing out the differences between political cultures and traditions in Australia and the US, especially in attitudes towards what government can and should do.

Donald Trump is coming to mean many things for this nation’s political leaders and for the Australian people. Mad king, tariff tyrant, spoiler of world orders, trasher of international rules. And still a hero to some.

Senior opposition figure Andrew Hastie has warned Australia's long-standing military alliance with the United States faces uncertainty under President Donald Trump's "unpredictable" America First agenda.

The world's coral reefs are going through the most intense bleaching event ever recorded, with 84% of them now affected, scientific authorities announced on Wednesday.

The current crisis, the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, is more intense than the 2014-17 episode that caused some two-thirds of global reefs to experience the harmful whitening.

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that the 145 percent tariffs imposed on Chinese imports will eventually "come down substantially" while expressing optimism about future talks to reach a US-China trade deal, US media reported.

US says tariffs on China will drop ‘substantially’; expert warns Washington faces difficulties in achieving initial goals as bullying unsustainableBy Ma Jingjing