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Ten men, some wearing camouflage, others in vests loaded with ammunition for their AR-15 rifles, gathered under the morning shade of oak trees in Central Florida last month. They were there to learn marksmanship tactics common among Special Operation forces and elite law enforcement units.

Local and international energy giants back major fundraising round for Australian solar and thermal energy storage hopeful, RayGen.

The troubled Callide C coal generator plant has

Kyiv, UkraineCNN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said two Chinese nationals fighting in the Russian army have been taken prisoner in eastern Ukraine.

Zelensky said Tuesday that Ukrainian forces fighting in the Donetsk region obtained the Chinese nationals’ documents, bank cards and personal data.

Federal Labor's battery rebate would include an important tweak to SRES to ensure there is "zero chance" it will put upward pressure on electricity prices.

Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, and now its seizing of their land is the worst example of genocide since the horrors of the genocides of Darfur in Sudan in 2003 and Rwanda in the 1990s.

Candidates running in the 2025 federal election, particularly those in marginal seats, must be held accountable for their actions and attitudes concerning the conduct of one of Australia’s closest allies.

Realestate.com.au published an interesting article on how the Victorian government’s increases in taxes on investment property have landlords “under siege” amid falling rents: The report pointed to PropTrack research showing that median weekly rents declined or remained flat in more than 30 Melbourne suburbs in the year to February, meaning investors could be losing money

European countries have once again “taken up arms” against Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, commenting on the increasingly hostile stance of many governments toward Moscow.

Addressing the constant calls to prepare for a presumed Russian attack – a notion which Moscow has dismissed as baseless – Lavrov said all previous global conflicts were sparked by similar aggressive actions from Europe.

On the one hand, you’ve got a booming business marking up your products into the US economy by ludicrous multiples of your low cost slave labour workforce. On the other hand, you’ve got Donald Trump taxing the living daylights out of your cost base at astonishing speed. Then, as you prepare to make a deal

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"I've seen longer menus in a restaurant than this:" Bowen gets stuck into Coalition gas costings as warns of dangers of a Dutton government.

Money.com has released research suggesting “there could be more pain ahead for renters”. Money.com points to analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) data showing that rents have risen by 14.2% over the past two years — more than double the overall inflation rate of 6.6%. This 14.2% increase reflects the

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I appear to have written Peter Dutton’s gas policy, and what a Bobby Dazzler it is! Peter Dutton says the Coalition’s gas policy forcing LNG exporters to increase onshore supply and ­decoupling local prices from ­overseas markets will reduce wholesale prices by 23%, slash industrial retail gas bills by 15% and cut 7% from household

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East Coast Australia has doubled its gas production over the past decade, yet the domestic market has been supplied with 25% less gas. Part of this decline in domestic gas use reflects demand destruction: the tripling of prices has caused manufacturers to shutter and reduced consumption. Despite being a major exporter, East Coast Australia now

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