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HMC seeks $1 billion in new attempt at fund raising its Gillard-chaired energy platform, but it has narrowed its development focus to wind and battery storage.

Nearly a decade ago, in 2016, then Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman, Rod Sims, delivered a speech on the growing concentration of Australian industry. New research undertaken by Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) economists has concluded that increased market concentration in some sectors of the economy has weighed on productivity. The RBA economists found

Following his meeting with Ukraine’s Zelensky, US President Donald Trump declared that there are decent odds of finally ending the Ukrainian conflict.

He added that:

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Zelensky want to resolve the Ukrainian conflict

European leaders also want peace in the region

Zelensky did not give a clear answer whether he is ready for territorial concessions

Earlier this year, Matt Bell of The Australian wrote an article based on the Hays 2025 Skills Report, saying that Australia was experiencing a skills crisis, with businesses struggling to recruit staff with the necessary abilities. Similar views have been expressed throughout the lead-up to the federal government’s productivity summit, even though Jobs and Skills

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Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky could bring the fighting with Russia to a halt “immediately” by agreeing to a settlement that rules out NATO membership and entails territorial concessions, US President Donald Trump has said.

CovertAction Magazine co-founder Philip Agee was one of the best known whistleblowers of the 1970s, writing a tell-all book exposing CIA crimes and the influence of multi-national corporations in driving illegal covert operations.

In the fast-evolving Communist self-censorship public forum of Australia, a man has broken ranks with the enforced media consensus. His name is Salvatore Babones, an American sociologist based at the University of Sydney. If being an American was not enough to invoke cancellation Article One, his arguments certainly are. Buried deep in an ashamed AFR is

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I have some good news and bad news for you, if you’re an Aussie. First, the good news. Your biggest export, iron ore, is managing to hold up despite a crash in Chinese property of cosmic proportions. The bad news? It is killing the planet at record speed. You’ve probably read lots of headlines about

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We now have a quiet period following the federal election and the Tasmanian election, and I’m using it as an opportunity to complete my election guides for the elections next in the queue.

The South Australian election guide has already been published for some time, but today I’ve published my Victorian election guide.

The Victorian election will be held in November 2026, so that is 15 months from now.

We’ve seen a lot of ideas for the upcoming Treasurer’s Economic Reform Roundtable, but not many on our climate challenge. Here’s four ideas the roundtable should consider. 

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky and several Western European leaders are due in Washington on Monday for talks with US President Donald Trump.

The visit comes after Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, in their first face-to-face talks since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Both leaders voiced cautious optimism that the discussions could help move towards a resolution of the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev.

The Trump-Putin encounter in Anchorage has angered some, disappointed others and baffled many more. Yet it has told us much about the state of the war in Ukraine, and the obstacles to the ending of hostilities.

Anyone wishing to make sense of the event would not have been helped by Trump’s proverbial incoherence and self-promotion. Nor was the banal coverage on offer in much of the Western mainstream media any more helpful.

The Republican budget measure that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law ... contains a provision that analysts say will allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase, a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.