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Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan may well have minimal carbon emissions, but the distant time of arrival, and ignoring the well known drawbacks makes it a dud.

On the face of it, it is all whizzbang white heat of technology (albeit of 60 years ago) and no carbon emissions (never mind the other ones). The problem lies with the nature of the beast.

The latest massive $1.1bn profit reported by Coles will doubtless produce a new round of hand-wringing about the “cost of living”. Governments will produce initiatives aimed at capping or reducing prices. Pundits will use a variety of measures to argue as to whether such measures are inflationary. Then there will be debates about whether splitting up Coles and Woolworths into smaller chains would enhance competition.

In 1988, a young professor of international relations at Fudan University in China travelled the length and breadth of the USA for half a year. He wanted to understand that great country in depth, at a time when the Soviet Union was coming to an end, Japan was challenging the US for the status of the world’s leading economy and the latter was intensifying its neoliberal process begun in the 70s.

By James Moore   “They say, Our deaths are not ours: they are yours: they will mean what you make them. They say, Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say: it is you who must say this. They say, We leave you our deaths.…

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South Australia sources more than 101 per cent of its demand over past week from wind and solar, in last week of winter.

All Australian workers who work with silica dust, not just those working engineered stone, will be protected by new laws that come into effect today Sunday the 1st of September.  While a highly publicised campaign last year led to a ban on so-called ‘killer stone’ used in kitchens around the country, now another 600,000 workers…

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DXY is bouncing off technical support and an oversold condition: AUD candles presaged a fall: CFTC specs are still short. Bullish! North Asia into reverse: Oil looks to be sniffing out a lower range: Dirt relation ended: Miners in trouble: EM going nowhere: No hard landing here: Yields perked up: So did stocks: Is China

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is not concerned that Mongolia could arrest him on International Criminal Court charges during his upcoming trip, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Putin is scheduled to visit Mongolia on Monday for a World War II commemoration. This would theoretically put him at risk of arrest on the ICC’s “war crimes” warrant, as Ulaanbaatar recognizes the court’s jurisdiction.

It is difficult to understand why Senator James Patterson and “dewy eyed” Defence Minister Richard Marles think of China as part of a threat environment. There is a remarkable agreement between these two defence mavens from the opposite sides of politics that has a common source.

Beyond US hegemony: creating a visceral fear of China    By Daryl Guppy

Actually, I don’t hate everybody. Let me be quite clear about this: I don’t hate actual people but I do hate their stupidity. When it comes to politicians, the media and people with vested interests that try to pretend that they’re only concern is for others but this idea that’ll cost them several million dollars…

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According to CoreLogic’s daily dwelling values index, home values across the five major capital city markets grew by 0.5% in August: As shown above, monthly growth was driven by the smaller markets of Perth (1.9%), Adelaide (1.3%), and Brisbane (0.9%), whereas Sydney recorded softer growth (0.3%) and Melbourne values declined (-0.2%). It was a similar

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When inflation and population growth are taken into account, Australia’s retail sector remains stuck in a deep and protracted recession. On Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released retail trade data for July, which showed that turnover in nominal dollar terms was flat for the month and rose by only 2.3% year-on-year: The poor

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A by-election will be coming up soon for the NSW state seat of Pittwater, at the northern end of the Northern Beaches, after sitting Liberal MP Rory Amon was charged with ten sexual assault offences earlier today. Amon also resigned from the Liberal Party.