What they’re saying: If Pauline Hanson and the Nats fall to clean energy it’s game over right?
While the war on oil rages in the Middle East the smart money is turning to an expected surge in opportunities for renewable energy and batteries. It took just days after the start of the conflict to spot some EV owners humble bragging (actually not humble, ...
Special Report for The Green List, by The Fifth Estate
Commercial, industrial and institutional property owners and consumers alike face a surge of confusing choices in energy related technologies.
There’s no end of promises to slash emissions and energy consumption. To get more from batteries. EV charging. Virtual power plants. Power purchase ...
It is evident that the federal government is concerned about the substantial and increasing inequity in the housing market and appears to be contemplating changes to the extremely generous tax benefits that accrue to investors in residential property.
Clearly, something needs to be done.
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Great achievement, sorry it’s going towards coal
There’s a cruel irony here – the Port of Newcastle has achieved a score of 100 per cent in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) as well as maintained its 5 star rating for the fifth consecutive year. Bad luck, these sustainability achievements are used in great part to ship coal. In ...
Australia needs a national evaluation process to assess new construction systems against measurable criteria such as productivity, environmental performance, digital integration and scalability writes Jose Atwell.
Recent commentary in The Fifth Estate highlights a widely recognised truth: the construction industry continues to struggle with declining ...
Australia claimed impotence over Gaza but is now sending military support to the US-Israel war in the Gulf. Andrew Brown on the hypocrisy of a nation which prides itself on fairness. This week Australia announced it would help defend the United Arab Emirates from Iranian attack. A Royal Australian Air
The excitement around home electrification is great to see. But if we want home energy bills to really fall, and home health and comfort improve, we can’t say that energy efficiency measures are “just an add-on”.
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Australia can't easily reduce its military dependence on the US, but with Canada, we can mitigate risk, says defence expert John Blaxland.
The post Ô Canada! How Australia can mitigate US dependence risk appeared first on The Klaxon.
The Australian Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose. This is the first in a six part series by Andrew Brown on Labor’s retreat from reform and what it means for Australia. Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint. It is a choice. Labor once believed
Women’s rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design running the risk of increased violence for women and girls. Aleta Moriarty reports. The UN Women’s International Women’s Day 2026 Report warns that
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana in 1905, subsequently generally misquoted as “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”. Whichever version, Michael Pascoe writes Trump’s air war on Iran fits the bill. Among other things, John Kenneth Galbraith,
The Albanese Government’s attempt to further limit transparency has been killed off. Widely condemned and ridiculed, the death of the FOI Amendment Bill is a good thing, says Rex Patrick. Yesterday morning, Senator Katy Gallagher walked into the Senate and moved a motion to discharge the FOI Amendment Bill 2025
What they’re saying: If Pauline Hanson and the Nats fall to clean energy it’s game over right?
While the war on oil rages in the Middle East the smart money is turning to an expected surge in opportunities for renewable energy and batteries. It took just days after the start of the conflict to spot some EV owners humble bragging (actually not humble, ...
Special Report for The Green List, by The Fifth Estate
Commercial, industrial and institutional property owners and consumers alike face a surge of confusing choices in energy related technologies.
There’s no end of promises to slash emissions and energy consumption. To get more from batteries. EV charging. Virtual power plants. Power purchase ...
It is evident that the federal government is concerned about the substantial and increasing inequity in the housing market and appears to be contemplating changes to the extremely generous tax benefits that accrue to investors in residential property.
Clearly, something needs to be done.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
The ...
Great achievement, sorry it’s going towards coal
There’s a cruel irony here – the Port of Newcastle has achieved a score of 100 per cent in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) as well as maintained its 5 star rating for the fifth consecutive year. Bad luck, these sustainability achievements are used in great part to ship coal. In ...
Australia needs a national evaluation process to assess new construction systems against measurable criteria such as productivity, environmental performance, digital integration and scalability writes Jose Atwell.
Recent commentary in The Fifth Estate highlights a widely recognised truth: the construction industry continues to struggle with declining ...
Australia claimed impotence over Gaza but is now sending military support to the US-Israel war in the Gulf. Andrew Brown on the hypocrisy of a nation which prides itself on fairness. This week Australia announced it would help defend the United Arab Emirates from Iranian attack. A Royal Australian Air
The excitement around home electrification is great to see. But if we want home energy bills to really fall, and home health and comfort improve, we can’t say that energy efficiency measures are “just an add-on”.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask ...
Australia can't easily reduce its military dependence on the US, but with Canada, we can mitigate risk, says defence expert John Blaxland.
The post Ô Canada! How Australia can mitigate US dependence risk appeared first on The Klaxon.
The Australian Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose. This is the first in a six part series by Andrew Brown on Labor’s retreat from reform and what it means for Australia. Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint. It is a choice. Labor once believed
Women’s rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design running the risk of increased violence for women and girls. Aleta Moriarty reports. The UN Women’s International Women’s Day 2026 Report warns that
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana in 1905, subsequently generally misquoted as “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”. Whichever version, Michael Pascoe writes Trump’s air war on Iran fits the bill. Among other things, John Kenneth Galbraith,
The Albanese Government’s attempt to further limit transparency has been killed off. Widely condemned and ridiculed, the death of the FOI Amendment Bill is a good thing, says Rex Patrick. Yesterday morning, Senator Katy Gallagher walked into the Senate and moved a motion to discharge the FOI Amendment Bill 2025
