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Controversial new changes to the federal Environment Protection & Biodiversity Act could have important consequences for renewables.

Dartmoor National Park is not dying; it is being killed, and these are the killers.

By George Monbiot, adapted from a Bluesky thread, 11th May 2025.

This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity.

Those of you paying attention might recall I set my kitchen on fire about a year ago, or at least I set the roast pork loin in the oven on fire… somehow. We finally had the oven replaced last week, and having a baker in the house meant that the first thing out of it were these amazing cinnamon scrolls.

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Solar and battery storage feature heavily in second round of "energy resilience" funding, as Victorian network seeks to bolster vulnerable parts of the grid.

Bowen retained as climate and energy minister, Murray Watt gets environment and Tanya Plibersek moved to social services.

The cottagecore, romantic path to starvation and environmental breakdown.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2025

Goldman with the note. Our Thoughts on USD, CNY, USD/Asia, JPY, GBP, CHF, RON & Globa Asset Reallocation USD: Smile, big and wide. There are two themes running through macromarkets. First, and a bit more structurally, investors are conscious that the resilience in hard data thus far is not surprising, but still believe it will

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Here it is. Australia’s Magnificent One. Considered by the market to have better growth prospects than Apple, Alphabet and NVIDIA, and fast catching Microsoft. The CBA’s spectacular rise as the Maginficant One is out of step with its sector. And has no basis in its operational performance. My best guess is the CBA is enjoying

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Australian households have suffered one of the largest declines in real disposable incomes in the developed world. The Q4 2024 national accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that real per capita household disposable income had declined by around 8% from its mid-2022 peak, the sharpest decline on record. The ABS released its

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The Market Ear on the rally. Mind the gap between the bearish flow and the price Hedge fund bearishness continued this past week with about 1z net selling across regions. HF net leverage also remains quite low – at 2nd %-tile on 12m basis for Eq L/S funds and 30th %-tile on 5yr basis for them.

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Remember, gas often sets the price of electricity in the wholesale market, so this debate is immense. The Australian. A sweeping review of Australia’s east coast gas market slated to begin in mid-2025 is shaping up as the economy’s last realistic chance to avert a looming energy crisis that industry leaders say could have widespread

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