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By Leith van Onselen The Grattan Institute’s John Daley last week gave a presentation to the Council of The Ageing conference on Housing for Senior Australians, whereby he noted that senior Australians generally face less housing pressures than younger Australians, but that the situation is likely to deteriorate from the 2030s due to falling home

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By Leith van Onselen In last week’s State Budget, the South Australian Government implemented a new tax on betting companies in a bid to raise $9.2 million in additional revenue a year. The ABC explains: The State Government will introduce a so-called “place of consumption” tax of 15 per cent on the net wagering revenue

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Australia is the only country that you could throw a wall around and still have all the materials you need – cobalt and graphite and lithium – for battery storage.

Let's forget about coal: Finkel's Clean Energy Target should be designed to encourage a good mix of zero emissions dispatchable solutions including solar thermal and biomass.

Pollinate Energy is celebrating its most significant milestone to date: having reached 100,000 of India’s most vulnerable people.

As the media chase CFMEU John Setka down the road with their pitchforks, they stop to slip a hero’s cape over Senator Hanson’s shoulders. Our National Conversation is a tale of two cities. One which contrasts how bigots are protected and those who speak up are condemned. A Soft Kitty for Hanson Time and time…

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By Leith van Onselen Former federal treasurer, Wayne Swan, is concerned that Australia’s middle class risks going the way of America’s and claims the Labor Party and the union movement need to better argue the case for improved wages for middle-class workers. From The AFR: “If we cannot make the economic case that good wages

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From the Bank of International Settlements (BIS): Excessive indebtedness has been one of the root causes of financial crises and the ensuing deep recessions. In recent years, the focus has been on household debt, as excessive leverage by the household sector was at the heart of the Great Financial Crisis. It is well recognised that

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A 200MW solar farm near Balranald in western NSW will be largest, and one of 27 large scale solar projects planned or under construction in the state.

On the roof of a waste incinerator outside Zurich, the Swiss firm Climeworks has built world’s first commercial plant to suck CO2 directly from the air.

There can be no-one in this country by now, barring the unborn, who has not experienced, first hand, some extreme weather event. There are those in the climate change “warmist” camp who cry the ”Aha!” moment at these disasters, while those in the “denialist” cabal give a banal yawn and implore us all to “move…

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I know what it is like to kick the earth, or at least a piece of wood. I thought my toe would never recover. I looked around, of course, for someone to blame and there were two dogs pulling on the lead. I bit my tongue in the metaphoric sense, and kept walking.

The reference of the title is to the lyrics in the song by Redgum, “I was only 19”:

Frankie kicked a mine, the day that mankind kicked the moon,
God help me he was going home in June.”