Natalie McDonald
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647 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Natalie McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says Australia needs a data centre plan, not a data centre panic.
It's actually quite a
pithy uh catch line.
Um arguing that restrictions could push AI investment offshore without actually fixing the underlying workforce energy and planning constraints.
I feel like this fits right into uh yours and Kenna Campbell's advice in in your latest book.
Um, but this all works out to around 1800 customers changing mortgage providers every day.
It's creating a really
Fierce fight between lenders for a share of Australia's $2.5 trillion mortgage market.
The problem for banks is that the overall market is slowing.
Mortgage growth is expected to fall from around 6.8% now to below 4% next year, while banks have reported a 15 to 20% fall in application volumes.
Macquarie is putting even more pressure on the big banks, adding $39 billion to its
its mortgage book last financial year and growing far faster than the broader market.
And if you're wondering why this matters, actually it really does when it comes to local economies.
So this influences everything from the available workforce and consumer spending to demand for housing, healthcare, and other services.
But Australia's population has grown by more than 8 million since 2001.
That growth, however, has been heavily concentrated around major cities.
Almost six million additional residents have gone into just ten percent of councils.
And that's the optimistic scenario.
Under current government policies, the UN says that warming could reach around 2.6 degrees, and that brings with it greater risks of extreme weather, rising seas, extinctions, and as we're really aware at the moment, melting glaciers and ice.
The message now is that overshooting the Paris target is effectively unavoidable.
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