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By Salvatore Babones It’s back to school this week for most of Australia’s 1.5 million university students—and back to Canberra for Australia’s top 1000 education bureaucrats. Universities Australia is holding its annual Solutions Summit this week in Canberra. The jamboree kicks off today with a session on “Putting First Nations at the heart of higher

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - UK Defense Secretary John Healey said that he wants to be the first in the role to send British troops to Ukraine.

"I want to be the Defence Secretary who deploys British troops to Ukraine – because this will mean that this war is finally over," Healey wrote in a comment published in the Telegraph newspaper on Saturday.

Plans to develop a 300 MW wind farm in Central Tasmania have approved by the federal environment minister, after nearly seven years in the EPBC queue.

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The 900MW project made it almost all the way through the federal environmental assessment process, but pulled up stumps before seeking state planning permits.

The post Developer dumps 166-turbine wind project proposed for Queensland’s Whitsunday region appeared first on Renew Economy.

If the shareholders in network monopolies aren’t prepared to wear the core and highly obvious risks associated with their business, why did we privatise these things in the first place? 

The post Transgrid’s latest cost blowout raises a key question: What was the point of privatising energy networks? appeared first on Renew Economy.

I only recently discovered that, like Cory Bernardi in early 20171, Gerard Rennick had been dumped from a winnable seat in the Senate, and had got the hump and attempted, also like Bernardi, unsuccessfully to set up his own party, to try to hang onto his political ‘career’. Rennick, the Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) senator was dumped from a winnable spot on the party’s Queensland ticket in July 2023 in a preselection punch up. Senators Paul Scarr and Susan McDonald were preselected, as expected, in the top two spots. After a close vote, the third spot went to Stuart Fraser, a Brisbane businessman and party treasurer.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the chief instruments of global capital, has been calling on China for some time to reorient its economic policies and reduce its reliance on exports, with the implied threat there will be retaliation from other major powers if it does not do so.

IMF calls on China to restructure its economy

by Nick Beams

A group of locals are appealing a permit issued for the on-shore transmission infrastructure to connect the Marinus Link undersea cable with the Tasmanian grid.

The post Locals launch last-ditch legal challenge in bid to stop Marinus Link appeared first on Renew Economy.

Lol, you go girl. Our favorite thorn in the side of the fake left, Drew Pavlou, has been deported back to Australia. Pavlou recently decided to test Billie Eilish’s Grammy Awards statement that “no one is illegal on stolen land.” He joked that, as an illegal immigrant, he would fly to Los Angeles and “occupy”

The post Drew Pavlou deported to Australia appeared first on MacroBusiness.

I have been recording an increasing bearishness in the market over the past few weeks. Now it appears the tail risk might be on the other side of the boat, or on both sides. Short interest has rocketed. It’s in the Sardines too. Weirdly, tech is the least shorted. It’s mostly defensives. With vol on

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South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas let the veil slip last week, claiming in a talk to CEDA that Australia needs high inflows of migrants from poor developing nations to wipe elderly Australians’ bums: “My message to One Nation voters is: who’s going to feed you and bathe you and wipe your bum when you’re 90,

The post South Australian premier demands migrant slaves to “wipe bums” appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Former Treasury official turned director of Macroeconomics Advisory, Stephen Anthony, is one of the few economists who understands the pitfalls of Australia’s transition to an all-renewable energy future. Anthony penned an article in the Daily Telegraph warning that the foolhardy push to close down Australia’s stable, baseload coal power for intermittent, weather-dependent renewables will drive