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Wind farm that offered the lowest publicly announced feed in tariff, and a landmark "baseload renewables" contract with BHP is officially open for business.

By Monday, Australia will have surpassed 100,000 small battery systems installed and registered since 1 July when household batteries became eligible for rebates.

WA wind farm proposal that sought to raise the height of its turbines to protect black cockatoos has been given the all-clear by the federal environment minister.

As we know, the RBA is intellectually bankrupt. It refuses point-blank to ever mention immigration as a macro input, making it impossible to forecast wage growth and inflation. This has now reached such a point of such absurdity that a new regime RBA, that was ushered in for precisely the failure described above, has become

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The Market Ear has more. The “healthy” reset 1. Gold has pulled back into key support at $3,944–4,000, likely forming the base of a new consolidation within an ongoing bull trend according to JPM’s commodities team. 2. The bank expects central banks and Chinese buyers to provide solid dip demand as stretched investor positioning eases.

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If the shipping sector was a country, it would emit more than double that of Australia. The answer to this problem is blowing in the wind.

Washington’s nine-month pause on new restrictions against Russia has come to an end. President Donald Trump has imposed his first sanctions of his second term – targeting two of Russia’s biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, along with their subsidiaries.

China HRC prices keep falling, indicating hot metal output is too high and must be cut to restore steel mill margins. Iron ore is on borrowed time while this dynamic persists. The Pilbara killer cometh. The Simandou project, the world’s largest source of untapped open-pit iron ore of the highest iron content located in Guinea,

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Remote, off-grid gold mine achieves a record 91 per cent wind and solar share over last month, and expects that to increase over spring and summer.

Earlier this week, housing minister Clare O’Neil lied on Twitter (X) claiming that “for the first time in a decade, new homes are being built faster”, that “the only way to make homes more affordable is to build more of them”, and “we’re doing exactly that”: O’Neil’s lies followed the release of the Australian Bureau

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A probable meeting between Xi and Trump next week gave some stability to markets over macro concerns that have outweighed earnings release on Wall Street, which rallied alongside European stocks overnight. Oil prices headed higher on more Ruzzian refinery setbacks and likely sanctions while the USD moved slightly lower against most of the majors except

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French forces could be at war with Russia by 2028, the country’s newly appointed chief of staff, General Fabien Mandon, has claimed.

Moscow has repeatedly rejected claims that it plans to attack EU countries, saying any such allegations are being used by European politicians to scare the population and justify growing military spending. Russia has also said it is defending itself in the Ukraine conflict, accusing NATO of provoking the hostilities.