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Inflation hits highest level in over a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... interest rate cut soon. "Today's near full percentage point jump in headline CPI is largely the impact of higher electricity prices as households used most of the available subsidies. Separately, construction work done rose nearly four times the ...

CBA appoints head of Australian economics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... of CBA's sustainability research offering and the development of forecasts for major commodities, including gas and electricity prices. Based in Singapore, Dhar has worked as CBA's lead mining and energy commodities strategist since late 2014. Adam Donaldson ...

Cbus, MLC, AMP Super pump more into Atmos Renewables

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... gigawatts (GW) - enough to power about 775,000 homes or a city larger than Adelaide. Its projects span the National Electricity Market (NEM) and Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) across most states, Cbus said. As part of the agreement, Cbus will commit ...

PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... climate change and minimise their human and economic costs." The report recommended Australia improve incentives in electricity, heavy industry and transport - which together account for 79% of Australia's gross emissions - to support an efficient net ...

Macquarie reprimanded again for derivatives compliance failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... Last September, ASIC slapped Macquarie a $5 million fine for its failure to curb suspicious order transactions on electricity futures. ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) found Macquarie breached market integrity rules on 50 occasions between ...

New ACCC chief named

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... Division between 2020 and 2024 with oversight of the ACCC's work across telecommunications, rail, ports, airports, electricity and gas as well as the 2023 Childcare Inquiry. Proudfoot was appointed executive general manager of the ACCC's National Anti-Scam ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... Aluminium Production Credit, available from 2028-29, will support Australian aluminium smelters to transition to renewable electricity and decarbonise. Further, as previously announced, the federal government has also consulted with the South Australian ...

New tax cuts for every Australian 'a complete joke': UNSW

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... nearly $5 billion in support already delivered. Under this measure, households will receive a $150 rebate on their electricity bills, paid in two quarterly instalments, in addition to the $300 in relief already locked in for 2024-25. Small businesses ...

TWC Invest makes risk, technology hires

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... risk and portfolio management to the fold. Thompson began his career in fixed income and cash markets at the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and was a director of equities at Equitilink (now Aberdeen Asset Management). In 2002, Thompson joined ...

Cost to maintain comfortable retirement increases

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
Despite a near 10% fall in electricity prices in the December quarter, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) data indicates the cost of maintaining a comfortable retirement has increased further over the past 12 months. The cost ...