Australasia – The Mint Magazine

Nowhere to move: How climate change became the property market’s biggest nightmare

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:44:54 +0000

Climate change-fuelled risks have now become a “crucial factor in home-buying decisions” for more than 80 per cent of potential buyers. That’s what Zillow, the US’s largest real estate listings …

Safety Warnings Follow Australia’s Woodside Energy to U.S. as $17 Billion LNG Project Moves Ahead

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:17:32 +0000

As Woodside Energy investors convened for their annual meeting in Perth, Australia, on May 8, they were met by protests and heckling. Activists, angered over the fossil fuel company’s climate impacts …

Australia: Canberra’s journey to 100% renewables

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:13:37 +0000

Holding up a lump of coal in the federal parliament in 2017, Australia’s then soon-to-be prime minister Scott Morrison said the fossil fuel was integral to a “certain energy future.” Yet the …

Jailed former Malaysian leader apologizes for fund embezzlement scandal, reiterates his innocence

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 12:14:51 +0000

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak issued a rare apology Thursday over the looting of a state investment fund worth billions of dollars “under my watch” …

One way a plastics treaty could help the Global South: Fund waste management

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:08:45 +0000

If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend …

China moves to spur its slowing economy and boost markets by cutting required bank reserves

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:21:00 +0000

BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank said Wednesday it will cut amount of reserves it holds for banks as part of a slew of measures to support the slowing economy. …

Why are ‘golden visa’ schemes being scrapped?

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:14:05 +0000

Golden visas and golden passports have attracted attention in recent years, as some countries attempt to encourage wealthy foreigners to park their money in return for residency or citizenship. The tiny Caribbean …

European lawmakers give green light to ‘model’ NZ trade deal

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 22:34:29 +0000

Lawmakers in the European Parliament on Wednesday signed off on the bloc’s free-trade agreement with New Zealand, heralded as Brussels’ gold standard for making its trade deals greener. “This is the most …

Australia to rejoin Global Climate Fund it abandoned in 2018

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:34:23 +0000

Australia has announced it will rejoin the United Nations climate fund set up to help poorer countries deal with the challenges of a heating planet ahead of a key donor …

LNG supplies: Why Europe is spooked by Australian strike

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:34:49 +0000

Prospective strike action by workers at Australia’s second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is being closely watched by European policymakers, concerned that a second winter of soaring energy prices could cause inflation to rebound. European …