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Economic gloom for Australia

What is causing Australia's high cost of living and how can the impact of this be lessened to ...  
Looking for the real story behind high home prices

The recent Senate housing inquiry has missed the real story behind high home prices leaving many ...  
TPP: Time for Abbott to rethink this 'preferential' and 'dangerous' agreement

Yesterday, as the U.S. Senate resolved to ‘fast- track’ the TPP, in Australia, the Producti ...  
Sunday Times’ concocted Snowden story: Journalism at its worst

It seems extraordinary that a man like Rupert Murdoch can make a fortune by hiring shonkey repo ...  
Chinese enterprise funds Middle East renewables

New reports confirm that the future of the Middle East is in renewables, which is already cheaper ...  
TPP deal heralds soaring cost of medicines

As the Abbott Government moves towards signing the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership, health ...  
Climate change: Doom and gloom or opportunity?

What climate sceptics and the broader community need is not simply warnings of future negative ...  
UN experts warn of threats posed by secretive trade deals — such as the TPP

United Nations experts issue a grim warning about threats to food, water, health and life over ...  
Professions end guilty silence on Abbott Government failures

Damage done to Australia’s resilient economy by the current inept prime minister and treasurer ...  
Stop the calling the TPP a trade agreement — it isn't

Stop calling the TPP a 'trade' agreement, writes Dave Johnson. The TPP is a corporate/investor ...  
Fossil fuels subsidies cost world $5.3 trillion a year — $10m a minute

RenewEconomy's Sophie Vorrath reports on the eye-watering $trillions that are being poured into ...  
The Job Guarantee:  A job for every Australian within a year

Since the mid-1970s, the rising dominance of what we now call neo-liberalism, saw the Fraser ...  
Anglesea coal mine and power plant closed after community pressure

Down near famous Bell's Beach, a major step forward in the fight against climate change has ...  
Joe Hockey's battlers and the Great Northern Mirage

Joe Hockey’s Budget was an obvious attempt to win back Howard’s battlers and set the stage for ...  
Metgasco win fails to simplify the future of CSG in NSW

The latest pitched battle between community and Metgasco has resulted in a member's bill by the ...  
Revolutionary Tesla battery heralds end of fossil fuels

Coal-lovin' Abbott is caught with his "budgies" down as revolutionary "Powerball" batteries look ...  
Coles, Woolworths, slavery and the global free market outsourcing racket

Four Corners this week showed Coles and Woolworths involved in Australia, through outsourcing, in ...  
Chevron exposed falsifying evidence in Ecuador oil pollution trial

Chevron vowed to 'fight until hell freezes over and then fight it out on the ice' before it ...  

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