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From being custodians of public knowledge, governments are turning to architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to account.

Around the world, governments are quietly deleting, manipulating, or withholding public data at an unprecedented scale, which is a direct threat to democratic accountability.

Research by Super Consumers Australia has found that the typical single retiree paying rent needs $659,000 in superannuation to enjoy a financially secure future, more than twice the $322,000 required by a homeowner. Couples face a similar gap: $786,000 for renters versus $432,000 for homeowners. Renters are three times more likely to struggle financially in

The ISP remains the best planning document stakeholders could wish for. Its weakness is it’s only a planning document, someone else has to implement it.

The post AEMO’s latest ISP plots a steady course, but private sector is running out of excuses appeared first on Renew Economy.

Contractor signed up for early works at one of the biggest battery projects in Queensland, with construction to start next year.

The post Contractor signed up for early works at one of Queensland’s biggest battery projects appeared first on Renew Economy.

Two renewable energy projects have taken important next steps forward this week in state's race to meet pledge to quit coal by the end of the decade.

The post State moves ahead on new wind farm and Indigenous-backed energy parks in race to quit coal appeared first on Renew Economy.

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has unanimously chosen to keep the official cash rate on hold at 3.60%. In its media release accompanying the decision, the RBA suggested that “temporary factors” are behind much of the recent rise in inflation, but also admitted that it is unsure of the extent: While inflation

The post RBA holds, cites signal versus noise appeared first on MacroBusiness.

From the Market Ear Two weeks of “agony” Two weeks ago, positioning was falling, HFs were net sellers, hedging was picking up, CTAs were cutting exposure, and Retail flow was fading. Shorts were working, and HF alpha held up. Now everything has flipped, buying has surged across cohorts, the 1-week change in JPM’s US Tactical

The post Sell Low, Buy High – And Ignore the Code Red? appeared first on MacroBusiness.

An article about wind droughts published on the front page of the Weekend Australian is not quite the "gotcha" moment author Chris Uhlmann claims.

The post What’s wrong with this chart? A short case study in graphical misinformation appeared first on Renew Economy.

Australia’s Treasurer of propaganda was back at it again, boasting on Twitter (X) that Labor has delivered a big rise in housing supply since being elected in mid-2022: The actual data on net dwelling additions (i.e., dwelling completions minus demolitions) from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) paints a far less rosy picture. It shows

The post Jim Chalmers puts lipstick on housing pig appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has revealed that the federal government’s energy bill subsidies will not be extended next year. The $75 a quarter reduction for all households, which began in mid-2023 but was twice extended to alleviate cost-of-living pressures, will expire in December as scheduled. The bill subsidies have cost taxpayers almost $7 billion. “This was

The post No more hiding Australia’s energy pain appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Of all the nations in the world, Australia has one of the strangest sets of geopolitical relationships. On one hand, Australia has been a key U.S. ally since the American entry into World War 2, with the key battles of the Coral Sea and Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) fought to secure shipping lanes to Australia within

The post Australia’s silence on China’s aggressive stance toward Japan appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Renewables meet nearly two thirds of power fed into grid in Germany in third quarter, not including self consumption from household PV and industrial facilities.

A lot of people would love to know how the electoral map would change if the parliament was expanded.

We’ve already been able to get some idea of what might happen by looking back at the historical experience from the 1948-49 and 1983-84 expansions. But the political system has changed since 1984, as has the map.

So I wanted to try drawing my own map, attempting as best as I can to draw sensible boundaries that fit within population constraints, and then examine what those maps would mean.