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Productivity Commission report recommends an overhaul to Australia’s environmental laws aimed at expediting approval of clean energy projects.

New South Wales Mining has come under fire for running an ad which claims the state's "high quality" coal is "needed for energy security ... for many years to come."

Thanks to the government’s draconian new anti-protest order, it’s almost impossible to tell whether you are or are not breaking the law.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th July 2025

I packed a toothbrush, books and a notepad in a small rucksack, took my laptop from the house and hid it, gave my phone to a friend to look after and put a “bust card” (lawyers’ details and legal advice) in my back pocket. I wasn’t certain I would be arrested, but I wanted to be ready. Then I stepped, with other, much braver people into a legal labyrinth.

Prefabricated housing is often touted as a solution to Australia’s housing affordability crisis. This week, 9 News ran an advertorial on Australia’s budding prefabricated housing industry, which it heralded as “a potential new dawn for Australia’s housing crisis”. These homes, which can be constructed in 10 to 12 weeks and can be “generally installed in one

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Goldman wraps the EOFY bump in retail sales. Nominal retail sales rose 1.2%mom in June, above expectations (GSe:+0.9%mom, BBG: 0.5%mom). The quarterly data were also firmer than expectations, with volumes rising 0.3%qoq in 2Q 2025 (GSe: -0.3%qoq, BBG:+0.1%qoq). That said, the acceleration in volumes growth was driven by a rebound in Queensland following flood-related weakness

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The ferrous complex likes to stick to seasonal patterns, but the sgtins are not good when steel gives way. Nor when PMIs give way. China official NBS manufacturing PMI: 49.3 in July, vs. 49.7 in June. Official non-manufacturing PMI: 50.1 in July, vs. 50.5 in June. The construction PMI fell notably in July to 50.6

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Australia's energy policy obsession with renewables means we are overlooking energy productivity as the first fuel to cut emissions and save money.

Sticky tariff induced inflation in the US overnight sent Wall Street lower as the expectation of rate cuts were diced as the latest PCE came in higher than expected. The Trump regime continues to bully Canada with the probability of 35% tariffs rising as no deal or framework before the August 1st “deadline” while Mexico just

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You know it’s bad when major miners play second fiddle to the gas cartel. Via The AFR: Rio Tinto’s Jakob Stausholm delivered Labor a brutal parting warning that Australia’s energy prices are incompatible with its goal of manufacturing at home, and warned the economy risks being undercut by more competitive markets in the battle for

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As noted many times, the idiocy of the Australian economy often plays out in the singular goal of local fund managers. To be long either mining or banks at the right moment, so you can outperform your peers. That’s all there is to it in the Houses and Holes economy. Recently, we had some bold

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