If you want to read an astounding recap of Australia’s history on gas, how we signed away long term contracts to Japan meaning Australia now has to buy gas on the hugely higher global spot market you need to take a look at this succinct and alarming report from the ABC. What were those government agencies thinking?
Now a Nationals senator decided to ...
COMMENT: The stories coming through from regional Australia and the housing crisis are hair raising. Such as, multiple investors scouring the internet for property sales, buying up places sight unseen, and jacking up rents immediately after.
Why? Because they can. Because demand is so high. So there goes the dream of those quiet country towns where we ...
A homelessness worker in regional Victoria has seen a 200% increase in people living in free campgrounds – and a big increase in families “sleeping rough”, he told the ABC this week. For many people, finding a rental is “nearly impossible”, he said.
At the same time, disputes over homeless encampments are happening across Australia. Lately, local ...
Over the last 12 months, the Indonesian Rupiah has dropped by 15% against our dollar, making Bali cheaper, but fewer tourists are arriving. Duncan Graham reports. The Indonesian economy is in trouble; a falling rupiah the symptom of increased debt, less investment and a drop in foreign income from tourists
More than 60 per cent of battery system installation work inspected under a federal government green energy program is substandard and 1.2 per cent unsafe, according to a recent report by the Clean Energy Regulator.
The Cheaper Home Batteries Program has proved hugely popular. More than a quarter of a million small-scale battery systems have now been ...
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Shifting more growth into established areas could save Victoria around $41 billion by 2056, compared with the status quo of continuing to rely on greenfield areas.
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To some, it may be heresy, but charging tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz looks reasonable in a Trumpian world, Michael Pascoe argues. If, unlike Richard Marles, you accept that the US has annihilated the “international rules-based order” and that under Trump’s rules, whatever you can get away
Vivacious ASX director and entrepreneur extraordinaire Giuseppe Porcelli was found guilty of “Fraudulent Bankruptcy” in Italy, yet thrives under the noses of Australian regulators. Michael West reports. “Le bugie hanno le gambe corte” translates literally to “Lies have short legs”. It is an old Italian saying, no doubt used by
Defence is supposed to provide ‘cradle to grave’ costings for proposed capability before a procurement is approved. That doesn’t seem to have happened for AUKUS nuclear waste storage and disposal. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick is pursuing answers. A simple request Imagine for a moment that you were the defence minister,
The 2nd year of Safeguard Mechanism data shows only one fifth is genuine emissions abatement. David McEwen finds the devils in the detail. Behind the government’s headline claims of falling emissions at Australia’s largest industrial facilities lies a more complicated reality, one driven more by closures, accidents and accounting than
Alleged war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has condemned his “sensational arrest” last week as an “unnecessary spectacle”, and has restated his innocence.
The post Alleged war criminal condemns his “sensational arrest” appeared first on The Klaxon.
University of Sydney’s appointment of pro-Israel academic Michael Abrahams-Sprod as antisemitism adviser has exposed management to an embarrassing conflict in its approach to freedom of expression. Wendy Bacon reports. While antisemitism adviser Michael Abrahams-Sprod works in the Vice-Chancellor’s Mark Scott’s office as its “resident expert” ...
If you want to read an astounding recap of Australia’s history on gas, how we signed away long term contracts to Japan meaning Australia now has to buy gas on the hugely higher global spot market you need to take a look at this succinct and alarming report from the ABC. What were those government agencies thinking?
Now a Nationals senator decided to ...
COMMENT: The stories coming through from regional Australia and the housing crisis are hair raising. Such as, multiple investors scouring the internet for property sales, buying up places sight unseen, and jacking up rents immediately after.
Why? Because they can. Because demand is so high. So there goes the dream of those quiet country towns where we ...
A homelessness worker in regional Victoria has seen a 200% increase in people living in free campgrounds – and a big increase in families “sleeping rough”, he told the ABC this week. For many people, finding a rental is “nearly impossible”, he said.
At the same time, disputes over homeless encampments are happening across Australia. Lately, local ...
Over the last 12 months, the Indonesian Rupiah has dropped by 15% against our dollar, making Bali cheaper, but fewer tourists are arriving. Duncan Graham reports. The Indonesian economy is in trouble; a falling rupiah the symptom of increased debt, less investment and a drop in foreign income from tourists
More than 60 per cent of battery system installation work inspected under a federal government green energy program is substandard and 1.2 per cent unsafe, according to a recent report by the Clean Energy Regulator.
The Cheaper Home Batteries Program has proved hugely popular. More than a quarter of a million small-scale battery systems have now been ...
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Shifting more growth into established areas could save Victoria around $41 billion by 2056, compared with the status quo of continuing to rely on greenfield areas.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Where you live increasingly ...
To some, it may be heresy, but charging tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz looks reasonable in a Trumpian world, Michael Pascoe argues. If, unlike Richard Marles, you accept that the US has annihilated the “international rules-based order” and that under Trump’s rules, whatever you can get away
Vivacious ASX director and entrepreneur extraordinaire Giuseppe Porcelli was found guilty of “Fraudulent Bankruptcy” in Italy, yet thrives under the noses of Australian regulators. Michael West reports. “Le bugie hanno le gambe corte” translates literally to “Lies have short legs”. It is an old Italian saying, no doubt used by
Defence is supposed to provide ‘cradle to grave’ costings for proposed capability before a procurement is approved. That doesn’t seem to have happened for AUKUS nuclear waste storage and disposal. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick is pursuing answers. A simple request Imagine for a moment that you were the defence minister,
The 2nd year of Safeguard Mechanism data shows only one fifth is genuine emissions abatement. David McEwen finds the devils in the detail. Behind the government’s headline claims of falling emissions at Australia’s largest industrial facilities lies a more complicated reality, one driven more by closures, accidents and accounting than
Alleged war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has condemned his “sensational arrest” last week as an “unnecessary spectacle”, and has restated his innocence.
The post Alleged war criminal condemns his “sensational arrest” appeared first on The Klaxon.
University of Sydney’s appointment of pro-Israel academic Michael Abrahams-Sprod as antisemitism adviser has exposed management to an embarrassing conflict in its approach to freedom of expression. Wendy Bacon reports. While antisemitism adviser Michael Abrahams-Sprod works in the Vice-Chancellor’s Mark Scott’s office as its “resident expert” ...