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In this week’s podcast, we are taking a look at the crushing weight of Australia’s housing market—why affordability is being flattened under rising prices, what’s driving the squeeze, and what comes next for buyers, renters, and investors.  Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded

A national interest policy process is one in which a well-informed government determines its policy settings via a specialist area of the bureaucracy. Next, the draft policy is released, and parliamentarians make well-understood arguments to the public via an intelligent media with its own specialists. Having fortified the polity with knowledge, the government might then

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It appears that the government-funded jobs printer of the Albo era is slowing faster than the crushed private sector economy of the Albo era can catch up. Public spending has been much more labour-intensive than private spending, given its focus on the bedpan economy. There is mounting evidence that this is resulting in a softening

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In last week’s monetary policy decision, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to keep the official cash rate on hold, citing resurgent inflation risks. The RBA’s 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 be higher than

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A last minute rescue mission managed to secure a tow line to a 145 meter long tanker that was drifting towards a giant 1.5 gigawatt offshore wind farm.

The ferrous complex remains paralysed by too much versus too much hope. Some Morgan Stanley charts illustrate the point. Steel is weak globally and abundant in China still. We are about to witness the weakest New Year restock in history, just as Chinese steel exports top out on trade wars. Iron ore is everywhere! The

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People movements at AusEV, Plug Power, Tilt, AEMC, SwitchDin, Brighte, Gentari, Western Power, Pacific Energy, SEC, Fortescue Zero, Deloitte, ACF, Ark Energy.

Senior officials in Poland and the Baltic states have blasted former German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she claimed they derailed potential EU-Russia talks on Ukraine months before the escalation of the conflict in 2022.

Being a renter in Australia is like competing in the Hunger Games. After borders reopened in late 2021, temporary migrants flooded into Australia in record volumes: As a result, rents surged and vacancy rates collapsed: At the end of 2024, Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) reported that the percentage of household income spent on rents hit a

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Queenscliff pier at sunrise   AUD/USD   EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold….we are now in parabola mode… West Texas Intermediate Brent   Australia 200   US S&P 500   UK 100   Japan 225       Videos                                    

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A quarry that will operate specifically for a 1.32 gigawatt wind project will need IPC approval after collecting 80 opposing submissions, many of them anti-renewable.

Australia's reworked environmental laws will not include a climate trigger, the federal environment minister has confirmed.

The NSW government has been criticised for blocking Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for access to taxpayer-funded reports on the likely impact of closing down coal-fired power stations on electricity prices. The government has commissioned at least 10 reports, studies, and presentations between June 2024 and July 2025 on the impact of its emissions reduction

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