Blogotariat

UNSW Professor Matthew England, a global authority on Southern Ocean modelling, explains the alarming warming of our seas. Plus: coal power extended in two states, and the week’s other key stories.

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Australia is already experiencing its worst rental crisis in modern history, with capital city advertised rents soaring by 43% over the past five years (to Q4 2025), adding $11,115 to the annual rental bill of the median tenant, according to Cotality. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released housing construction data for the September quarter

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Of all the hills to die on, this has to be the strangest. A major political party is coming apart owing to a thousand-year war on the other side of the planet that has zero bearing upon it. Sussan Ley has pleaded with the Nationals to stay in the Coalition after the country party’s frontbench

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The ferrous jaws have only marginally compressed. To summarise. Hot metal ouput is hovering somewhere around 2.3 mt per day, which is mediocre. Port inventories of iron ore are still skyrocketing. MOFCOM reported it at 170.44MT yesterday. A crazy number. Steel inventories are high with limited need to restock. Steel exports are under pressure from

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Last week, CBA released its wage tracker for December, which draws on de-identified salary flows from around 400,000 CBA accounts to provide an early snapshot of wage growth. In the December quarter of 2025, CBA recorded annual wage growth of only 3.1%, well below the 3.4% CPI inflation increase recorded by the ABS in the

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Why go through all the pain of having new LNG facilities and new coal mines when we can just kill oil imports and get a lot of votes in the process?

The post Australia should go hard on EVs, exempt them from GST, and save $40 billion a year in fuel imports appeared first on Renew Economy.

“How Western Media Sells War” is a deep-dive conversation on how conflict is packaged, branded, and sold to the public through news and entertainment. We look at:

How language, imagery, and repetition turn military campaigns into “humanitarian interventions” or “defensive actions”.

The role of think tanks, PR firms, and political elites in feeding ready‑made narratives into Western newsrooms.

The Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update is issued annually by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It provides a synthesis of the global annual to decadal predictions produced by the WMO designated Global Producing Centres and other contributing centres. The latest predictions show that:

Australian taxpayers are subsidising the Israel Defense Forces and illegal settlements in the West Bank via Australian charities. Stephanie Tran reports.

Australian taxpayers are subsidising donations to Israel’s military and to organisations operating illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories through a network of registered charities with deductible gift recipient (DGR) status, an MWM investigation has found.

While speaking at the Davos summit on Tuesday, French president Emmanuel Macron drew attention for his stern rebuke of US leader Donald Trump's threat to tariff eight European countries opposed to his proposed takeover of Greenland. 

But another aspect of Macron's speech also made an impression: his choice of eyewear. 

State government has already ploughed more than $300 million into embattled coal generator, and has now promised more just six months after saying it wouldn't.

The post W.A. backflips on loss-making coal generator, promises more subsidies to keep plant open appeared first on Renew Economy.

The next-generation of solar technology could be cheaper, more efficient and a step closer to reality after advances by a team of Australian scientists.

The post Australian researchers say stacking PV cells may make solar ever cheaper and more efficient appeared first on Renew Economy.

As Australia's biggest utility stalls on the closure of the biggest coal plant, Andrew Forrest says he is charging towards real zero: "We’re not doing this to be heroic."

The post “We will break their grip:” As Origin stalls on Eraring, Andrew Forrest says fossil fuel industry can be beaten appeared first on Renew Economy.