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The Prince of Wales will make his first visit to Estonia at the end of next week to meet British troops providing a deterrent to Russian aggression in the region.

Prince William will travel in his role as colonel-in-chief of the Mercian Regiment to learn more about how British troops are bolstering Nato's eastern flank, Kensington Palace said.

Asian share markets are somewhat mixed yet again traders try to decipher where the battle lines are being drawn in the ongoing trade wars started by the increasingly isolated USA. The USD is trying to fight back but is seeing continued weakness against Euro and Pound Sterling with a mild bounceback in Yen this afternoon,

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Prosper Australia was proud to join with Per Capita and a host of other organisations across the community sector in presenting the 2025 Community Tax Summit. Held in the richly historic Trades Hall, the Community Tax Summit was a two-day conference that brought together researchers, advocates, people with lived experience, and economists to examine how […]

In August 2024, the Actuaries Institute stated that rising home insurance prices were causing financial strain for 1.6 million Australian households. This marked an increase of 360,000 households under stress, or 30% over the previous year. According to Sharanjit Paddam, the lead author of the Actuaries Institute study, insurance premiums were rising faster than wages,

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Tell it to rack off. The AFR gas lobbyist. Japanese energy groups have returned to one of their hobby horses: questioning the reliability of Australian LNG exporters. In a feisty speech to the Future Energy Forum in Perth this week, a senior executive from power giant JERA warned that Australian companies’ preferred supplier status was

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A shock unless you read MB that is. The Australian. Electricity bills will rise by as much as 9 per cent from July 1, the Australian Energy Regulator has declared. The AER said increases will vary across the National Electricity Market, but the largest jump will be seen in NSW, where prices are set to

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Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen checks in on the markets after recent large falls and discusses what to watch for going forward. 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 Macrobusiness Fund, which is

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We have a lot of information about how the count is going for the Legislative Assembly in Western Australia – there’s a few close races, and places where we’re waiting for full distributions of preferences, but the information is reasonably clear.

Unfortunately there’s a lot less useful data for the Legislative Council, and there’s bunch of ways in which the data reporting is falling short of what we’ve got in other states using similar electoral systems.

A new report by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) claims that the capital gains tax (CGT) discount and negative gearing “disproportionately” benefit Australia’s wealthiest while also fuelling the housing affordability crisis. ACOSS says the wealthiest 10% of households own two-thirds of all investment properties and are receiving 82% of the $16 billion in

Honestly, what a pack of wingers. Washington has refused to allow us to cheat it out of a lousy $700m of steel and aluminum exports and ANZUS is off, screams the MSM! Australia does subsidise aluminium and steel production. If we didn’t the gas cartel would have killed both long ago. More to the point,

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Rio Tinto signs massive solar and battery storage deal to help secure future of its smelter and refineries that are among Australia's biggest energy consumers.

One of the biggest batteries under development in Australia – and one of the first eight-hour batteries to be underwritten by NSW government – has locked in a supplier.

LNP government allows the first of four giant wind projects that were frozen earlier this year to work its way through the planning process.