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Home electrification and energy upgrades at centre of state's new five-year plan to cut emissions, as it strives for a target of net zero by 2045.

The house was gloriously quiet and still today, allowing me to get back to World War 3.3. As I expected, I wasn’t able to spin up from nothing to seven hours of two-fisted manuscript punching. But I managed four hours of concentrated work, and I’m gonna take that as a win.

Mostly I worked at my desktop, but I got to one part of the chapter I’m working on at the moment (a little spoiler alert: Kim Philby and Guy Burgess tooling around the Outback, playing at saboteurs) and I thought, you know, now would be the time for these two to have a talk about everything going on in their lives.

Don Reynolds is a name forgotten to history, though he appears to hold a key to understanding who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

On November 22, 1963, the morning that Kennedy was killed, Reynolds was testifying in a closed-door session of the Senate Rules Committee about a kickback scheme he was involved in on behalf of Lyndon B. Johnson

Tree-change couple say they are shocked at "immature and unsophisticated" lenders after having mortgage rejected due to a wind farm caveat.

Neeraj Das from ElecSome on the huge economic and resource opportunity solar recycling presents for Australia – and how close we are to stuffing it up. Plus news of the week.

New report from Climate Analytics says if countries deliver on prior promises it would reduce average global warming by nearly 1°C.

All recent opinion polls show that Australian voters are fed up with excessive levels of immigration. People cite the impact on the housing market as a major concern. Recently, AMP chief economist forecast that Australia’s cumulative housing shortage is at least 200,000 and could be as much as 300,000. The latest projections from the National

It is maddening watching the Domain newspapers distort everything about property. Real estate agents will have to disclose a home’s reserve price well before buyers attend auctions under Australian-first laws aimed at tackling rampant property underquoting in Victoria. The fundamental change, to be announced by the Allan government on Thursday, follows this masthead’s Bidding Blind investigation, which

The ferrous complex reamins paralysed by the jaws. Goldman has some intelligence from the ground. Steel: steel demand is seen as reasonable to solid/stable, with ongoing weakness in property and infrastructure construction sectors being offset by strong demand from manufacturing, auto, shipbuilding, machinery and exports. All steel mills we had meetings with are seeing the

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers doesn’t know when to shut up. On Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) posted wage price data for the September quarter of 2025, which showed that real inflation-adjusted wages fell by 0.5% over the quarter: The decline took Australian real wages back to mid-2011 levels, tracking 6.4% below the mid-2020 peak.

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Federal energy and climate minister Chris Bowen touted South Australia’s world-leading renewables share in a final pitch to secure hosting rights for next year’s COP31 UN climate conference. Appearing at the COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday, Bowen unveiled a report from the Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG) boasting South Australia’s three-quarter share

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In this exclusive conversation, company leaders and experts explore the reasons behind the rebrand, the expansion into new product lines, and what this means for the future of clean energy.

Labor has missed so many opportunities to rid the nation of this economic millstone that I have no faith it is about to do so. Yet the gas cartel is weak, leaderless, and divided. Top gas executives will gather in Perth this week in a last-ditch attempt to shape the Albanese government’s overhaul of the

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