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Ross Gittins wins 2025 E.J. Craigie Writing Award for the best article reflecting the ideas of Henry George. Prosper Australia is pleased to announce Economics Editor for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Ross Gittins, as the recipient of the E.J. Craigie Writing Award for 2025 for his article: Productivity Commission wants our big mining companies to […]

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Ten days after Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared that Germany could no longer afford the welfare state, the leaderships of the ruling Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) have agreed to a massive reduction in social benefits.

German government coalition partners agree on massive social cutbacks

Asian share markets are mostly higher across the board as traders anticipate more Fed easing after Friday night’s US jobs print showed the Trump regime’s economic malaise continues although local stocks had a little stumble. Meanwhile bond markets are trying to recover with many long dated yields across the UK, Japan and USA backing off

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is back at it, lying that a renewables-based future will deliver Australia an “era of growth and prosperity” with the private sector leading the charge. “The global shift to clean energy is the biggest economic transformation since the industrial revolution and it is a profound economic opportunity for Australia”, Albanese will

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The US jobs market is weak and getting weaker. The Friday BLS report has some dour implications for Australia. Total nonfarm payroll employment changed little in August (+22,000) and has shown little change since April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. The unemployment rate, at 4.3 percent, also changed little in August. A job

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Contested wind and battery project was hit by media allegations of major land clearing last week, but the new owner says the final design is still under review.

Plans to develop a 300 megawatt, up to four-hour big battery have been referred for EPBC assessment, but a solar component dropped because it was "non-viable."

The ferrous complex remains drunk as steel margins evaporate. And then there is this. S&P. Today, we are witnessing a resurgence in capital expenditure focused on iron ore, contrasting with the overall capital decline in the mining industry. Notably, a significant portion of this investment, focused on iron ore, is directed toward Guinea and the Simandou Blocks 1 & 2 and Simandou Blocks 3 & 4 projects. Simandou is a particularly high-grade deposit, with grades averaging 65.8%

Plunging cost of battery storage is occurring at just the right time in Australia, which is experiencing unprecedented levels of wind and solar curtailment on its main grids.

The Price is right. The federal opposition is in damage control following firebrand senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s claims the government is accepting “large numbers” of Indian migrants into Australia to bolster Labor’s vote. Polling strongly suggests that Jacinda Price is right (especially now she has said it!). Indian migrants voted strongly for Labor at the

Last month, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) lowered the official cash rate (OCR) by 0.25% to 3.60%. This marked the third 75 bp rate cut this year. Most economists and financial markets have tipped the RBA to deliver another two 25 bp rate cuts by mid-2026. The associated decline in mortgage rates has improved housing

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This is good from The Australian. …Manufacturing Australia, which counts BlueScope, Tomago Aluminium and CSR as members, told the government review that east coast-based manufacturers pay between $12 and $19 per gigajoule for gas compared with the US, where prices are $5 to $7/GJ in comparison. …The group said Australia must target a delivered gas

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