Sometimes, it all comes together for a newspaper...

A tawdry tale of how Nine became its own headline smh.com.au/business/compa…

Market and political failures, made in Australia thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/0…

News Corp journalists brace for redundancies. The Age CJK
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I've covered every budget since 1998. They normally don't leave me angry. But a $6.5b decision forced on the current government contained in last week's budget is still upsetting me .. theage.com.au/politics/feder…

What I wrote about David McBride late last year. Still valid questions about both the government and media.

Reliance on gas will burn climate change plans thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/0…

If the sums have been done properly & we can't get off gas by using renewables+storage+H2, then we should indeed be looking at nuclear. Australia can have a future for the gas industry, or meet its climate commitments – but not both theconversation.com/australia-can-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

‘We cannot open new gas projects and still meet our climate goals. If we want to make sure we have enough domestic supply on the east coast, we could simply reserve some of our export gas, as WA has done.’

theconversation.com/australia-can-… #auspol

I'm just finishing an article on the #BerkshireHathaway annual meeting.

Thought I'd check that I hadn't missed anything, by asking ChatGPT.

Either Charlie has been resurrected, or AI still has a way to go...

#Berkshire2024 #BerkshireHathaway AGM #AI #ausbiz

A force of nature with a wry smile: Lang Walker remembered smh.com.au/business/entre…

Did a graph for the column and then took it out because of room. So you can all have it.

This book just keeps on giving!

East Antarctica 38.5C above seasonal average on March 18th.

Biggest jump in temperature ever recorded at a met station - anywhere on Earth.

Just staggering.

Make no mistake.

Anything is now possible. And I mean anything.

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29Metals warns on weather, stock down 81pc to 38c since Macquarie backed IPO in 2021, 'the float’s investment bankers, lawyers, tax advisers, bookbuilders and lead managers will all trouser their cut of $91.7 million in total offer costs out of $245 million in funds raised for

Housing starts in China have fallen by more than 60pc relative to pre-pandemic levels

(IMF)

Labor press release is finally out on $840 million for Arafura, the miner backed by Gina Rinehart.

No detail on how much is a grant, how much is a loan, what the terms are, or how much taxpayers are meant to get back.

Gina Rinehart's Arafura has a market cap of $355 million.

The Albanese government is giving it $840 million in loans and grants.

A great deal for Australia's richest person.

afr.com/companies/mini…

Fun fact!

In 2020-21 (most recent available ATO data), Australia's nurses paid more than three times more tax than the gas industry. #auspol

Just a small sample of the casual #racism I sometimes cop as an Arab Australian journalist 🤌🏽

Notice how polite I was to him before he declared immigrants are the root of all problems.

I was covering a hit and run by the way…but I guess the culprit is always “immigrants”.