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DXY is off to the races. CNY held and EUR is cooked: The Australian dollar tumbled again versus developed markets (DM): And emerging markets (EM): Gold held on: Oil didn’t: Nor base metals: Big miners are breaking down: EM stocks sank fingernails into the clifftop: EM junk bounced: Treasuries were sold: Bunds too: Italy is

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By Leith van Onselen After Melbourne yesterday lost its bogus title of “most liveable city”, Lord Mayor, Sally Capp, offered a rare dose of honesty on the primary reason why: Calling Melbourne a “victim of its own success,” Mayor Capp said the city’s growth had made it harder to meet the liveability criteria. “You have

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By Leith van Onselen SQM Research has released its rental vacancy series for July, which revealed a 0.1% fall in the national vacancy rate over the month and a 0.2% decline over the year: Over the year, decreases in vacancies were recorded in Adelaide (-0.5%), Perth (-1.2%), Brisbane (-0.7%) and Canberra (-0.3%), whereas increases were

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This time the pen was dropped within a near pristine male toilet environment and it fell onto tiles under the sinks which were many feet from the urinal. "Still, don't chew that," I thought, reflecting on the last pen dropped on a toilet floor and which remained unchewed by me and then disposed of.Yeah, I chewed it. I remembered not to chew it after 40 minutes of chewing. So the ship well sailed on avoiding masticating something from a toilet floor---but I did stop chewing when I remembered.Just sensational effort.Well played, pen.

It’s not every day that Malcolm can say that the party room agrees with him. In fact, judging by the way he was gloating today, you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s a pretty rare occurence. Well, at least Mr Turnbull kept his promise about not being prepared to lead a party that wasn’t…

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Smart Energy Council counts eight "lies" told by the federal energy minister in his Sunday ABC TV interview – and fact-checks them all.

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Turnbull says he would welcome new coal generator, and prepares to fight Labor on emissions.

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Macquarie snaps up Conergy solar team and portfolio to deepen its interest in battery storage.

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Study suggests 40 million EV charging points may be built globally within the next 12 years.  But in China, they may have built too many chargers too soon.

Remarkable news: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has sought industry feedback on potential approaches to adjust the capital framework for authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) to make capital ratios more transparent, comparable and flexible. The prospective approaches are outlined in a discussion paper released today for industry consultation. The approaches would not change the amount

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Comedy, Boris Johnson, and the Tories – these three share a certain comforting, if chaotic affinity, lobbed together in some nightmarish union that risks consuming itself. But times are serious – profoundly so, we are told: Brexit exercises the nerves as if Britannia were a patient about to expire, and there is the cultural irritation…

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Coalition MPs vote for NEG designed to stop wind, solar and battery investments, while Turnbull hails possibility of a new coal fired generator to provide "baseload" power.

By Leith van Onselen Statistics New Zealand has released it’s June quarter population estimates, which shows that New Zealand’s population is fast approaching 5 million people, increasing by 92,000 (1.9%) over the past year to 4.89 million: As usual, this growth has been driven by mass immigration, which added 65,000 in the year to June:

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