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Australia-originated energy storage innovator clears major new milestone for its sulfur battery technology that brings it a step closer to commercialisation – and to competing with lithium-ion.

In September, Frank Chung at News.com.au reported that “international students are overwhelming Australia’s asylum system with bogus refugee applications, as the country’s deportation backlog surges towards 100,000”. Abul Rizvi told Chung that “there’s an increasing number of student visa holders applying for asylum”, adding that there are likely to be around 50,000 migrants who have

The Coalition will shortly discuss the ‘principles’ on which its immigration policy will be based. However, there are differing opinions within the Coalition’s ranks on the issue, with some expressing concern about using the term “mass migration”. South Australian backbencher, Liberal senator Andrew McLachlan, has criticised Coalition colleagues who use the phrase, contending that linking

Energy systems expert Bruce Miller explains why spinning machines won't be needed in future grid, while regional independent MP Helen Haines says developers should drop the spin and focus on community benefits.

This week’s September quarter national accounts release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) was mixed. On the one hand, overall GDP growth was soft at 0.4% for the quarter and slightly negative in per capita terms. On the other hand, annual GDP growth accelerated to 2.1% through the year, in part owing to upward

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There has been a clear trend in recent federal polling – One Nation has been gaining ground, seemingly at the expense of the Coalition. We’ve now reached a point where One Nation are regularly polling in the mid-teens. If they were to achieve such an election result, it would be the highest vote share polled by a minor party in a federal election under the modern party system, in excess of the best results for the Greens or the Democrats.

There’s a long time to go before the next election, but it does raise questions about what an election held with current polling might look like.

My following point here is not to prevent anyone to believe in god, but to stop people from indoctrinating others with their falsehood.

God is as dumb as a plank of wood — but we can use it to keep us afloat.

           Alphonso Moronicus

The Anker SOLIX X1 has surged into Australia’s top battery rankings, combining sleek design, tough coastal performance and federal endorsement to become the breakout home storage system of 2025.

Elon Musk has predicted that Vice President J.D. Vance will succeed Donald Trump as US president, and that the country will enter a “great 12-year span” of leadership that will include Trump’s current tenure and successive terms for Vance, Politico has reported.

For political cartoonists, a federal election feels a little like Christmas — the fodder is endless.

And it really shows in this year's Behind the Lines exhibition, the annual celebration of the year's best political cartoons at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra.

Corporations and oligarchs are using offshore courts to tear down democratic decisions – and our governments say “welcome”.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st December 2025

How do you reckon our political system works? Perhaps something like this. We elect MPs. They vote on bills. If a majority is achieved, the bills becomes law. The law is upheld by the courts. End of story. Well, that’s how it used to work. No longer.

Risk markets here in Asia are pivoting more on BOJ rate hike speculation amid near certainty that the Fed’s upcoming December meeting next week will result in a cut, with tonight’s US initial jobless print in the balance given the very poor ADP private numbers recently. The Australian dollar is still building above the 66

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