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Everything I have written about Australia’s student-migration scam has been confirmed by the latest study on the international education sector by Jobs & Skills Australia (JSA). JSA openly acknowledged that most international students come to Australia primarily to work and live, rather than for educational purposes. Nearly 70% of international higher education students reported migration

New Eastern Outlook met with Inga Koryagina, Director of International Development at the Directorate of the World Public Summit, PhD in History, Associate Professor of the Department of Marketing at the Plekhanov University of Economics, International Development expert at the UNDP, and Director of International Development at the Russian-African Club of Moscow State University.

Read more in our exclusive interview.

In the early 2010s, the federal Labor government made the disastrous decision to allow the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Queensland without forcing gas companies to first supply Australians. Gary Grey, the then-Federal Resources Minister under the Gillard/Rudd Labor governments, argued that domestic gas reserve policies create uncertainty and discourage investment. This pitted

Neoen starts work on its first six-hour battery as the country's biggest battery - completed four months ahead of schedule - starts its contract as a "solar soaker"

From the Market Ear: Mighty NVDA NVDA takes out resistance levels, breaking above the consolidation that has been in place since mid July. Weak hands have been shaken out, so we could be seeing a short-term vacuum kick in… Will… …NVDA lead us higher, or ORCL lower? De-leveraging Last week we saw US Fundamental L/S

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On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released dwelling approvals data for July, which showed 15,624 trend approvals for the month, down 1.0% from July. Approvals remained 4,376 (22%) behind the National Housing Accord’s five-year objective of 20,000 dwellings per month. In the year to August, 189,105 dwellings were approved for construction, which was

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Envision Energy published EPDs for its wind turbines, underscoring sustainability and net-zero progress.

Department of Energy adds three new words to its 'banned' listStaffers at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy received an email last week announcing that several words have now been banned from their official terminology

Cotality has released its September housing market report, which contains more bad news for renters. The national rental vacancy rate has fallen to a fresh record low of only 1.4%, according to Cotality, which has driven a reacceleration in rental growth. “The national vacancy rate slipped to a new record low of 1.4% in September,

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Can governments keep their sovereignty without becoming innovation-stifling totalitarians? And on the other hand, are the tech feudalists willing to provide innovative digital infrastructure without eating into state sovereignty and freedoms?

Non-State Actors, Techno-feudalism, and Governments’ Dependency Syndrome

BY Tamer Mansour

Three of Australia’s largest manufacturers will receive a total of $12 million to demonstrate technologies aimed at reducing Australia’s industrial emissions.

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has chosen to hold the official cash rate at 3.60%, in what was a unanimous decision. In arriving at its decision, the statement noted that “the decline in underlying inflation has slowed”, with “recent data, while partial and volatile, suggest[ing] that inflation in the September quarter may

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Origin seeks approval for huge wind and battery project on land it owns in New England REZ, where Coalition MP Barnaby Joyce is waging a war against renewables.