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The supply-side nutters at the Centre for Independent Studies have produced “research” showing that “migrants aren’t to blame for the housing crisis”. Instead, the CIS argues that Australia’s housing shortage is “the result of not enough dwellings being built”: “Population growth alone does not produce today’s housing shortage”, claimed CIS author Marian L Tupy. “The

Fortescue moves full steam ahead on its Pilbara renewables plans, this week kicking off construction of WA's largest solar farm and the latest piece in its ambitious decarbonisation puzzle.

The post Fortescue forges ahead on Pilbara “real zero” with construction of state’s biggest solar farm appeared first on Renew Economy.

Proponents of high levels of immigration typically argue that it lifts productivity and living standards because migrants tend to be better educated and more highly skilled than the average Australian. They generally cite spurious modelling to support their claims, ignoring the actual empirical evidence showing that Australia’s labour productivity and per capita GDP growth slowed

Goldman reckons oil is going higher. The analysis highlights rapidly rising upside risks to oil prices from a severe disruption to oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The base case forecast previously assumed Brent crude in the low $80s in March and the high $70s in the second quarter, based on the expectation that

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In spite of a last minute venue cancellation by Adelaide University, a sold-out Adelaide crowd heard from Chris Sidoti, Francesca Albanese, Henry Reynolds and Lana Tatour on lessons and links for Australia on settler colonialism and the Israel/Palestine conflict.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) claims that a Pentagon source says military officials are preparing a public defense for military commanders telling troops that the Iran war is a holy war, fulfilling evangelical Protestant prophecy.

Report: Pentagon Eyes Defending “Armageddon” Briefings

Religious-freedom group claims a Pentagon source reports some are defending the briefings as personal speech

Since the latest round of conflict in the Middle East kicked off on the 28th of February, the cost of a barrel of oil (WTI) has risen by $23.98 compared with the final close of markets prior to the war, representing a rise in oil prices of 35.6%. Taking a longer view, the current level

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Right now, in the first week of March 2026, Europe is facing an energy crisis that doesn't have a name yet. Not because it isn't big enough, but because it happened too fast. In the last 48 hours, two things went down simultaneously.

First, Iran struck the heart of Qatar's gas infrastructure—the largest LNG export facility on the planet. Production stopped.

The Australian Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose. This is the first in a six part series by Andrew Brown on Labor’s retreat from reform and what it means for Australia.

Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint.

It is a choice.

President Donald Trump has denied US responsibility for the strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, most of them children, suggesting instead that a faulty Iranian missile was to blame.

The line between enough public participation and too muc

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Iran Will Not SURRENDER w/Mohammad Marandi

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana in 1905, subsequently generally misquoted as “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”. Whichever version, Michael Pascoe writes, Trump’s air war on Iran fits the bill.