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A senior Pentagon spokesperson has responded with a “your mom” joke when asked about US War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s choice of tie for a recent meeting with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.   

Hegseth opted for a white, blue, and red striped tie during Zelensky’s visit to the White House on Friday.

Neoen major new winner of capacity credits in W.A, with a contract worth around $54 million for its first six hour battery, along with a solar battery hybrid.

This Labour government would have banned the Labour movement – alongside all the other protests that secured our freedoms.

Imagine a movement arising in this country that seeks to overthrow established power. Imagine that it begins with a series of rebellions, in Scotland and south Wales perhaps, that shut down workplaces, confront police and soldiers (sometimes peaceably, sometimes with crude weapons), set up roadblocks and lay siege to the places where fellow protesters are imprisoned and government officials are meeting.

Asian share markets have continued their strong rebound on the Trump TACO trade helped along by calm returning to Japanese politics with a new PM while local markets saw a lift in rare earth miners on the back of the Albo “deal”.  Currency markets are treading water without much change as the USD tries to

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Australian government provides $2.5m grant to Perth-based outfit to explore vanadium flow battery manufacturing opportunities in the Indo-Pacific region.

Construction is underway on a new wind farm being developed in Western Australia's eastern Wheatbelt region by state-owned energy utility, Synergy.

Origin boss says he can see lots of scenarios where the closure of Australia's biggest coal fired generator will be further delayed.

By Ross Elliott, cross-posted from The Pulse: A million people generate a lot of demand for things. Hospitals included. In Australia, we need on average 1 hospital bed for every 270 people, so that’s 3,703 beds for 1 million people. Based on a large hospital of say 500 beds, that’s roughly 7.5 hospitals for 1 million

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Last week’s dwelling completions data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that in 2024-25, the Albanese government fell 65,970 (27%) behind the National Housing Accord’s target, which requires 240,000 homes to be built annually for five consecutive years. It also means that Australia will have to build around 256,000 homes annually over the

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A Melbourne-based developer is planning to build a big battery project on a triangle of land between two roads at Macedon, in Victoria.

Some much-needed positive news for the fledgling offshore wind industry, as one of 11 remaining Gippsland projects advances into the queue for EPBC approval.

The Chinese property crash is somewhere near the halfway point. Here is the raw data for Ssptember, Floor space sold: -10.5% yoy in September, vs. -10.3% yoy in August (value of sales:-11.8% yoy in September, vs. -13.8% yoy in August). Floor area under construction: -9.4% yoy in September, vs. -9.3% yoy in August. New home

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In September 2023, just as Australia’s net overseas migration was hitting its highest level in history (i.e., 556,000), NSW Premier Chris Minns told ABC’s 7.30 Report that he supported record immigration levels, claiming that more migrants were needed to build houses and apartments in the state. “We’re supportive of the commonwealth government’s decision to lift