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Former US President Joe Biden has offered to raise funds, campaign, and do whatever is needed to help Democrats regain ground lost to the Republicans during his tenure, NBC News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

By Stephen Saunders  Major-party election-offerings are unsympathetic to ordinary voters. Coalition indolence (and overstated Trump fears) may well re-elect Labor or (heavens no) Labor-Greens. At MacroBusiness also The Australian, I’ve portrayed Election 2025 as a winning romp for the top 20% regardless of who becomes prime minister. Meaning, little improvement across crucial indicators such as

Russian President Vladimir Putin would breach a peace deal with Ukraine if it is not defended, Sir Keir Starmer has said, after attending a meeting of senior military leaders in London.

The UK prime minister said any agreement to stop the fighting between Russia and Ukraine would "only be lasting" if there were "security arrangements in place".

Quinbrook's David Scaysbrook says the falling cost of solar and battery storage represents a tipping point for the energy industry. Plus: Big battery tender, gas and hydrogen news.

This is so dumb or corrupt that I don’t know where to look. Sky. Shadow energy minister Susan McDonald has hit out at Labor over Australia’s looming gas crisis, declaring state and federal governments needed to “get out of the way” and allow more projects to proceed. …Speaking on Sky News Australia, shadow resources minister

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Australians are hurting following an 8% decline in real per capita household disposable income since the Albanese government came into office. Australian households have suffered from an inexorable rises in gas and electricity prices. Australian renters have suffered from a near 50% rise in rents since the pandemic, driven mainly by the surge in net

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China solar giant says the new 5MWh unit has been designed to withstand Australia’s “complex maritime climate" and adhere to stringent safety and noise regulations.

The Victorian government’s financial troubles are widely documented. In 2023-24, the state had the nation’s highest per capita net debt and the lowest credit rating (AA). The trend growth in Victoria’s debt is equally alarming. The two leading international rating agencies, S&P and Moody’s, warned that if debt levels are not managed, Victoria’s credit rating

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Plunging cost of solar and battery storage is likely to save Australia's giant smelters and refineries, and will also underpin massive new green metal industries.

The spectacularly biased Peta Credlin wrote and a great piece about Labor energy failures yesterday. Quite apart from all the other problems that the Albanese government has created or exacerbated – the record migration-driven pressures on housing costs and supply, wage suppression and infrastructure overload; the productivity-crushing advances to union power; the green veto on

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Three months ago, I questioned why the population numbers contained in the Q3 ABS national accounts differed so widely from the official Q2 population figures released one week later by the ABS: That is, the Q3 national accounts implied 656,000 population growth for 2023–24, versus 552,000 growth in the official quarterly population data. That represented

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Gas turbines are impossible to buy. "They're all sold out," says one major energy investor. And if you can get them, they now cost four times the price.

In 1998, gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield and 12 of his colleagues published a case study in one of the most highly respected medical journals, the UK’s Lancet. This paper suggested that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine may predispose children to behavioural regression and pervasive developmental disorder (i.e. autism). Despite the small sample size of only 12 individuals, the lack of controls, and the speculative nature of the conclusions, the paper received wide publicity, and MMR vaccination rates began to drop because parents were concerned about the risk of autism after vaccination1.