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Brisbane based battery manufacturer Vaulta signs partnership with American company to set up a licensed assembly facility in the United States.

As tensions escalate in the Middle East, there are various ways Australia can insulate itself from global energy price spikes.

With a Labour government running an immigration-led labour market expansion economic model that intrinsically lowers living standards, the last thing beleaguered Australian households needed was the RBA to join the economic stomping. But that’s exactly what they’ve had, as a politicised RBA refused to canvass what the model means for inflation. Most pointedly, there won’t

Amidst the ongoing debate surrounding the right level of migration for Australia, I thought it would be interesting to look into how population growth is playing out at a state based level. The piece will also look at which state has been doing the heavy lifting relative in terms of its population growth relative to

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If there is one country that has come to embody the absolute failure of developed world policymakers to address existential economic and social issues, it is South Korea. Despite it’s status as one of the most technologically advanced economies in the world and one of only a relative handful to reach developed world status outside

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There were 21 seats in 2025 where an independent candidate made the two-candidate-preferred count. For today’s post, I want to explore what we can tell about those voters from their other voting patterns. For voters who ended up with the independent in the two-candidate-preferred count: how did they cast their primary vote, and where did they rank Labor or Coalition?

For some of this analysis, it is important to analyse seats where the independent was primarily opposing Labor or primarily opposing the Coalition separately.

This first chart shows the 14 independents who made the 2CP count against the Coalition.

The NSW government’s budget papers show that the state is expected to post a deficit of $5.7 billion for the 2024-25 financial year. The deficit is projected to narrow to $3.4 billion in 2025-26, although it is well above the $2.2 billion deficit that Treasury had forecast in the mid-year budget update. Treasurer Daniel Mookhey

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DXY is at the breaking point. EUR is soaring. AUD should be catapulting, but markets are beginning to understand that Labor’s immigration-led growth model produces no inflation. Lead boots plod higher. Gold has lost its energy. Oil bottom. Metals reflation is here. Except for the big bears. EM yawn. Junk on the verge of a

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Ukraine can still achieve a military victory over Russia, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe and head of the US European Command, Alexus Grynkewich, said during a US Senate hearing on Tuesday. He was confirmed in his new role with the US-led military bloc earlier this month.

Almost all of Australia’s top chief executives are, according to their boards at least, knocking it out of the park in terms of performance.

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin told the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week that the world needs “a new model of global growth,” many Western commentators heard only a familiar plea: lift the sanctions, drop the tariffs, stop using trade as a geopolitical cudgel.

Russia takes on the West’s biggest obsessionPutin says the world needs a new growth model. He might be right.By Andrey Kortunov

They came. They bunker-busted. They fled.

And then they set the stage to control the narrative via a massive P.R. operation.

Network offers an Australian-first "near neighbour" payments to soothe anger among landowners and communities around the controversial transmission line.