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After the magnet shock of 2025, who gets to have the rare earths version of the North Sea (the oil shock of 1973 led to North Sea oil, enriching Norway). Will it be Australia this time?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
We've seen a magnet shock in 2025. Is Australia part of the solution?
Anyone who controls the supply of magnets controls the future, and China has been quietly working on this under America's nose for decades. Can Australia muscle in?
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Deb Forster has published another short story on her website, called Wings. It's wonderful imho
deborahforster.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Deb Forster - @Oliveforster - has posted another short story on her website, called Butter Menthols. It's a story about a mother who takes her kids to a refuge to escape a violent drunk, for a better life. It's great.
deborahforster.com.au
September 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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In this week's ABC column I preview the Government's 2035 emissions reduction target: if it's worthwhile, we'll need a carbon tax, and probably nuclear generation as well.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Australia's emissions target is a laugh-or-cry-o-metre or maybe a tax-o-metre
Australia's emissions reduction number is, in short, a laugh-or-cry-o-metre, or perhaps more accurately, a tax-o-metre.
www.abc.net.au
September 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Deborah Forster (@Oliveforster) has published a new work of fiction on her website. It's called "Ozone", a story about a girl growing up.
deborahforster.com.au/stories/cate...
September 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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My wife Deb has decided to post some of her fiction for you to read. The first is a short story called Ada Sharon Adams, and like most of her work is about the lives of girls and women.
deborahforster.com.au
September 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Last night's piece for ABC TV news previewing tomorrow's RBA interest rate decision.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Will the Reserve Bank cut rates in August?
News from the world of finance and business. Top stories in text, video and audio. Business video news bulletin. Features and analysis.
www.abc.net.au
August 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This week's column for ABC News - In the early 1980s, Australia had as big a trade deficit as the United States has now — around 3 to 4 per cent of GDP. But the two solutions to the same problem could not be more different. Read on...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Amid Trump's tariffs, Chalmers must repeat what Keating did in the 80s
Treasurer Jim Chalmers must find a way to repeat what Paul Keating did in the 1980s and 90s, and lift productivity. Good luck with that.
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August 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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This morning's column for the ABC: Australia's illegal tobacco problem has made the proverbial transition from tragedy to farce.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Australia's illegal tobacco problem has jumped from tragedy to farce
We can now conclude that the strategy of taxing and banning nicotine addiction out of existence is a complete failure. The result is organised crime making about $10 billion a year in revenue.
www.abc.net.au
August 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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My video piece for last night's @abcnews: we're not going reach net zero by 2050 and we won't prevent global warming in time. It's China's fault.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Carbon emissions aren't falling, but who is to blame?
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
www.abc.net.au
August 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Last night's @abcnews finance report, in case you missed it
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Wednesday finance with Alan Kohler
News from the world of finance and business. Top stories in text, video and audio. Business video news bulletin. Features and analysis.
www.abc.net.au
July 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Last night's @abcnews finance bit, icymi
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Monday finance with Alan Kohler
News from the world of finance and business. Top stories in text, video and audio. Business video news bulletin. Features and analysis.
www.abc.net.au
July 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This morning's @abcnews column, in which I discuss how AI has become part of the geopolitical contest between China and America, not just a race to AGI among a few billionaires.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
US, China in battle to own first artificial general intelligence
The AI battle between China and the US is less about profits and return on investment, and more about geopolitics — national machismo, security and defence.
www.abc.net.au
July 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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This week's column for ABC , on Anthony Albanese's green iron sales pitch in China last week and why it's a big deal.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Why Albanese tried to do a Hawke during last week's China trip
Four Ts dominated the conversation about Anthony Albanese's China trip: Trump, tariffs, Taiwan and trade. But look a little deeper and it's clear green iron was a key talking point, too.
www.abc.net.au
July 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Last night's ABC news finance bit, ICYMI
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Wednesday finance with Alan Kohler
News from the world of finance and business. Top stories in text, video and audio. Business video news bulletin. Features and analysis.
www.abc.net.au
July 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"Real men burn stuff": America's acts of self-harm while China - a ruthless autocracy - builds the future. This week's column for the ABC
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
'Real men burn stuff': America's embrace of coal just one in a series of colossal acts of self-harm
It's entirely appropriate that Albanese is meeting Xi again before he meets Trump for the first time. Xi is more important than Trump now.
www.abc.net.au
July 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Last night's @abcnews finance bit in case you missed it
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Tuesday finance with Alan Kohler
News from the world of finance and business. Top stories in text, video and audio. Business video news bulletin. Features and analysis.
www.abc.net.au
July 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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My column for @abcnews - where are we going to find 34 sq kms of land per year in the suburbs to build houses? Golf courses? Parks? Race tracks? Boosting supply alone is not the answer to affordability.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Where is Australia going to build thousands of new homes?
To meet the government's housing target every year there will need to be infill land created about 26 times the size of Melbourne's CBD across Australia.
www.abc.net.au
July 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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 Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · Jun 26
Alan, we need to be energy independent. Buy an EV.
June 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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did a "My 2 Cents" for Life Matters on Radio national.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
My Two Cents: Alan Kohler - ABC listen
In "My 2 Cents", we're asking those questions you'd rather not answer about money. What can we learn from how ABC finance guru Alan Kohler manages his money?
www.abc.net.au
June 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Deb's @debfor.bsky.social‬ winter solstice column: Our new garden is a bog, the dullness of puddles has taken it and sunken it into wet grass, but there are three foxgloves shooting up and two pink dogwoods and a crab-apple all doing well. So come on spring!
deborahforster.com.au
June 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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This week Deb @Oliveforster has written about dullness, and it's not dull!
deborahforster.com.au
June 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Deb @Oliveforster has written about a beloved friend who died recently. It moved me to tears.
deborahforster.com.au
June 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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It looks like only the courts will hold Trump to account... if his regime chooses to obey them, which it probably won't. My column for @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
There's a 'nasty' new nickname for Trump, but it gets something wrong
Donald Trump's team is fighting one of the most consequential legal cases in the US history, but there are plenty more where that came from: 250 lawsuits are currently featuring his administration.
www.abc.net.au
June 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Last night's @abcnews piece on the transmission cost blowout, and the need to shift the energy transition to more rooftop solar, with batteries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjb...
How household batteries overcome energy transition obstacles | Alan Kohler | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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June 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM