They keep trying and keep failing to describe what is going on. SMH. Yet a gas reservation policy now will not save Australia from the diabolically embarrassing scenario of having to import gas to keep the lights on in Melbourne and Sydney. Understandably, Australians are having trouble getting to grips with the fact that we
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Greenpeace, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), and WWF Australia are among several environmental groups that will actively target Labor in the run-up to the federal election. They will help fund an advertising campaign against the federal government’s plans to legislate to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry. The groups contend that the legislation will hasten the extinction of
Tuesday’s federal budget included the following explanation of how the decline in tobacco excise has resulted in the loss of billions of dollars in revenue. Excluding new policy decisions, excise and customs duty receipts have been revised down by $1.7 billion in 2025–26 and $8.5 billion over the five years from 2024–25 to 2028–29. The
Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen look at earnings forecasts and which sectors are starting to see the effects of the chaos around policy making and tariffs. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at the
Liberal leader Peter Dutton has thrown a cost-of-living Hail Mary at voters, promising to halve the rate of fuel excise for a year, which would cost the federal budget $6 billion. Dutton boasted that his policy would take effect as soon as the Coalition wins office, unlike Labor’s new tax cuts that are more than
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DXY is back. EUR is unravelling. Could be tactical. AUD follows EUR. Lead boots getting heavier. Stupid Trump has revived oil with Venezuela and Iran alk. Copper bubble begins. Helping RIO. EM meh. Junk stressy. Yields up with oil. Stocks plunged. The Australian dollar has once again been tariffed. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation
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The Housing Industry Association (HIA) attacked Tuesday’s federal budget for failing to stimulate housing supply, describing the budget as “a missed opportunity to deliver a concrete housing plan”. “Australia needs to be delivering a quarter of million new homes year on year to meet our growing population and put downwards pressure on housing and rental
Ukrainian government is raising its own cannon fodder for the war against Russia from a very young age.
Here's how:
▪️A doll in Ukrainian military uniform without a leg BLEW UP minds on social media. Should such a toy prepare Ukrainian children for the same fate in the future?
I wrote to the US law firm running a class action against Meta for IP theft and got a good result:
Never say never with iron ore. especially with seasonals. Having been unusually weak, we’ve popped in line with seasonal strength. SMM has decent report on conditions. Today, the iron ore futures gradually strengthened after a weak start, fluctuating upward throughout the day. The most-traded contract I2505 finally closed at 780, with a daily increase of
The phrase “changing world order” has become a familiar refrain in international affairs. But what’s often missed is how rapidly that change is now unfolding – and who is accelerating it.
Dmitry Trenin: Liberalism is dead, this is what comes afterIn Trump’s world, great powers don’t preach – they compete
BY Dmitry Trenin
The Market Ear is still looking short-term. SPX technicals SPX reversed right on the 21 day moving average. Not overly surprising given the recent squeeze. Support: 5600, resistance: 5850. Maybe we just need to range for a bit… Source: Refinitiv NASDAQ technicals Also reversing right on the 21 day. Support: 19600, resistance: 20800. Source: Refinitiv
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