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Risk sentiment reversed its decline overnight mainly due to some off the cuff comments from the Trump regime’s Treasury Secretary about an “imminent” deal with China, which were since walked back but this sent a signal to buy USD and US stocks which saw Wall Street take back most of its recent session falls to

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I found this in my iPhone's reminder app this morning. I have no memory of making it, but it seems like a pretty good plan for the workday.

Ben is joined by Jill Sheppard and Emily Foley to discuss the long-term trend of the major parties losing primary votes: what is causing the trend, how it might play out in 2025 and whether they can do anything to reverse the trend. The seat of the week is Bruce in south-eastern Melbourne.

Almost every energy claim made by Dutton isn't just wrong - it's precisely opposite to the reality revealed by simple fact-checking

When a great man and leader of the Roman-Catholic Church – and beyond it – like Pope Francis dies, it may seem almost impious to speak or write about politics. But in his case, we know for certain that it simply means doing what he told us to do.

Pope Francis was a great man who committed one terrible failure in the endThe late Catholic leader was humble and always supported the abused and the downtrodden – except in one very sad case...

China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?

It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world.

The War on the West Hardcover – April 26, 2022

by Douglas Murray (Author)

The last of 75 turbines has been installed at the biggest wind project yet built in South Australia which will help edge the state closer to 100 pct net renewables.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are massively subsidised in Australia. First, more than $550 million of tax revenue is estimated to be lost annually due to the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for battery EVs and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs); however, the FBT exemptions for PHEVs ended on 1 April 2025. Under the FBT exemption policy, somebody who

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Plans unveiled for what would be the biggest wind farm in South Australia, with two eight-hour big batteries, to help support Whyalla's green steel ambitions.

A wind farm developer is asking for permissions to increase the height of proposed turbines, which it says will help protect Carnaby black cockatoos.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) annual state accounts, Victoria’s per capita GDP fell by 1.2% in 2023-04 and has only risen by 10.4% since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008. Victoria’s performance compares poorly against the 1.0% national decline in per capita GDP in 2023-24 and the 14.5% increase recorded since

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Albert Edwards of Societe Generale famously coined the phrase “Ice Age” for the period leading up to and after the GFC. The Ice Age thesis was based on the notion that immensely deflationary forces would emanate from a balance sheet recession taking hold in developed economies.  Now Edwards sees the same coming from and for

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