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Green groups at war over “biodiversity-destroying” wind turbines

September 16, 2025 - 11:00 -- Admin

Green groups have attacked the planned mass rollout of “biodiversity-destroying” wind turbines across regional Australia. Veteran conservationist and former federal Greens leader Christine Milne told The Australian that peak environmental non-­government organisations were too “frightened” to oppose renewables projects: “I find it incomprehensible that you get this line back (from NGOs) that you can’t oppose

The resurgence of One Nation

September 16, 2025 - 10:30 -- Admin

When the latest polling from Resolve was published by the Sydney Morning Herald and the other Nine Entertainment papers, it revealed that the One Nation primary vote was polling at a record high of 12%, overtaking the Greens as the third largest primary vote. While this is just one poll, a broader long-term analysis of

AI mania has tech seriously overbought

September 16, 2025 - 09:00 -- Admin

From the Market Ear: AIQ at the most overbought levels since July 2024…just before markets crashed. The tech buy in Last week’s “notional net buying in global Info Tech was the largest in seven months and ranks in the 99th percentile on a 5-year lookback”. Soon enough… Everybody has been waiting for weak September… but

The Coalition should negotiate on superannuation reform

September 15, 2025 - 13:00 -- Admin

Robert Gottiebsen at The Australian argues that the Coalition risks inciting deep animosity among a core part of its traditional supporter base, including farmers and shareholders. This cohort is being targeted by Labor’s proposed 30% tax on the unrealised capital gains of superannuation balances of more than $3 million. Gottliebsen believes that Labor would most

Britain’s migration consensus crushed

September 15, 2025 - 11:30 -- Admin

Shortly before Britain went to the polls for the 2010 General Election, then Opposition Leader David Cameron released the Conservative Party’s manifesto, pledging to cut net migration into the U.K. from 200,000 people per year to “tens of thousands of people per year”. At the time, polling showed that immigration was the second most important

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