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Two massive transformers have travelled from the Port of Newcastle to the New South Wales Upper Hunter region to form part of a huge battery being built at the site of a shuttered coal plant.

There has been a clear trend in all Australian elections over the last twenty years of voters moving away from voting on election day, with an increasing number of voters choosing pre-poll voting as an alternative.

Tasmania has lagged behind the rest of the country in moving away from ordinary election-day voting, both at state elections and federal elections, but there was a big drop between last year’s election and this year’s election.

Australians will suffer from the pace of change to renewables – but not because it's moving too fast.

In late July, Australia test-fired a new US-made long-range missile. Its range is 500km, but that can be doubled, easily reaching Indonesian targets. Duncan Graham reports.

Were our friends to the north fearful, seeing this armed streaker as a threat? Tariffs, Gaza and Ukraine have elbowed other news aside, so reaction has been limited. The Indonesian media has yet to make a fuss.

Data centre-aligned experts say the sector will be defined by the demands of hyperscale AI players, and not the needs of the energy system.

As with other wars, questions of provocation, self-defence and divine right or entitlement are central themes of what the Western mainstream media have had to say about the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel in June 2025.

Peter Blunt

US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are having two broad impacts on the global economy – they are eroding international confidence in US leadership and disrupting global supply chains, and causing rapid geographic restructuring of international trade.

Jiao Wang

Beijing steps up as Washington steps back

Exorbitant land costs are the primary driver of Australia’s high home prices. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), residential land values, which underpin the housing market, increased by 8.8% between 2023 and 2024, reaching $7.7 trillion. Residential land values increased from 1.1 to 2.9 times Australia’s GDP over 35 years, ending in 2023-24.

  It was all about tariffs again today in the minds of risk markets but Asian shares have all broadly advanced except the ASX200 which put in a scratch session. More rate cut speculation builds as the US Federal Reserve has to weigh up increasing inflation against further jobs losses as the USD continues to

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Major network suggests pilot scheme where the excess solar from industrial rooftops is shared with those who can't afford their own PV arrays.

The latest data from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) showed that house prices nationally have fallen by 16.4% over 44 months, with all major centres experiencing heavy declines. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, home prices in real terms have crashed back to 2019 levels. Cotality released its house

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An industrial company building a new site was quoted $117,000 just for the connection. So CEO Scott Rawson decided it would operate off the grid.

The ferrous complex is still easing after the recent ill-conceived push. The outlook remains weak. The big event refers to a September 3 Beijing ceremony, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Chinese steelmakers, especially those in the northern region, usually constrain production before big events to ensure air quality in

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