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State government announces major road upgrades in response to local council concerns about road congestion from transport of giant turbine blades.

Holy freakin' crap... Bill Maher is FLIPPING after meeting Trump....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0182h4Q3YJQ

Celebrities did not respond kindly to comedian Bill Maher visiting the White House for dinner with President Trump and were even more incensed over his retelling of the dinner.

A 19-year-old wind technician from Wyoming has tragically fallen to his death while working on a wind turbine near the town of Medicine Bow.

Origin is using its growing fleet of big batteries to chase down Snowy Hydro as the biggest supplier of dispatchable generation in the main grid.

LNP government seeks scapegoats in attempt to save face after forcing one of the state's most unreliable units to stay open, just days after explosion at same coal hub.

NSW Independent Allegra Spender on her plan for permanent energy bill relief and what’s missing from federal Labor’s battery rebate. Plus, dispatches from the Smart Energy Conference.

While Australia’s two major parties are busy blowing the world’s largest house price bubble, New Zealand’s politicians are letting their house prices slowly deflate, restoring affordability. The REINZ house price index remained muted in March, rising 0.2% over the month to be 0.4% lower than a year ago. Major bank ASB noted that New Zealand

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Another day, another poor opinion poll for Peter Dutton and the Coalition. This week’s Roy Morgan poll shows Labor’s two-party support lifting to 54.5% (up 1% from a week ago), nine percentage points ahead of the Coalition’s 45.5% (down 1% from a week ago). Therefore, Labor would win an increased majority if the election were

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So says Labor legend Jenny George. The Australian. Regular warnings about gas shortages in Victoria are troubling. Despite its opposition to fossil fuels and having the highest renewables targets, Victoria is considering importing gas, under­written by the public, at an estimated cost upwards of $20 a giga­joule. It makes no sense. Market failure is the

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On Monday, I spoke to Ben Davis on Brisbane Radio 4BC Mornings to unpack the housing policies announced by Labor and the Coalition over the weekend. I described these as “some of the worst policy making I’ve seen in my 47 years of life”. I added that Australian “households are among the most indebted in

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Kevin You, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, published research on the record boom in international students and temporary migrants. Dr You noted that there were a record 111,740 net permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia in February 2025, a daily average of 3,991. “That’s approximately 3 arrivals a minute on a net

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