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Now that the Japanese ruling coalition has secured a majority in the lower house, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi doesn't need to "immediately resign". However, attention remains focused on her recent erroneous remarks and actions.

DXY was firm overnight after a reasonable jobs report. AUD had another tearaway night. This story was not about US jobs, which should have capped it. It was about a rocketing JPY post-election and CNY still on the up. Oil and gold are both chasing Iran. AI metals were mixed. Big mining parabolas have never

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Exactly 19 years ago on Tuesday [10/02/2026], Russian President Vladimir Putin took the podium at the Munich Security Conference and demolished the myths and falsehoods underpinning the American-led world order. Did anyone heed his warning?

To Russia, the “rules-based international order” has always been shorthand for a system in which the US makes the rules and issues the orders.

Renewables advocacy groups join the likes of Tesla to push back against proposals to increase the fixed network cost component of electricity bills.

The post Solar and battery households will be biggest losers from network tariff changes, advocates say appeared first on Renew Economy.

A helicopter has been deployed to start stringing the transmission lines that will connect the huge Uungala wind farm to the grid in central western New South Wales.

The post Choppers and concrete pours: Helicopter joins effort to deliver huge Twiggy Forrest wind farm appeared first on Renew Economy.

Williamsdale battery in Canberra to fund two rooftop solar and battery storage systems for local not-for-profit organisations, as part of a com

The Essential Services Commission has banned a second company in as many weeks for allegedly using doctored photos to claim completion of efficiency projects.

The post Energy regulator bans another company over doctored photos, false claims appeared first on Renew Economy.

Caitlin Fitzsimmons, the environment and climate reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, has written an article challenging the common belief that younger Australians are being locked out of home ownership. While it’s true that people in their 20s are buying later than previous generations, Fitzsimmons points to Census data compiled by the Australian Institute of

AGL to create a new funding vehicle, using other people's money, to develop its major wind projects, including auction winners in NSW and the CIS.

The post AGL eyes options for a 2 gigawatt plus wind energy portfolio after signing string of PPAs appeared first on Renew Economy.

Australia’s federal budget uses two main deficit measures, and they differ because they treat certain transactions differently—especially asset sales, loans, and off‑budget funds. The headline balance captures all cash flows in and out of the Commonwealth government, including: day‑to‑day spending tax revenue capital spending asset purchases and sales loans issued and repaid equity injections transactions

As usual, this is all sound and fury signifying nothing. Grace Tame has stolen the limelight from the very cause she espouses. She is now on the defensive. “I’m not the story…The story is that Israel stands accused by the International Criminal Court of committing genocide in Gaza, and so far”… “This should terrify us

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Australia’s rental market has experienced record-tight vacancy rates and explosive rental growth over the past five years. The nation’s vacancy rate fell to a record low of 1.5% in September 2025 and, as of January 2026, was tracking at 1.7%—well below the pre-COVID level: Cotality’s latest weekly indicators report shows that the number of rental

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