September 2024
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Record weeks for renewables blow up Dutton’s nuclear con
The record high of low-cost wind and solar in the grid comes as we are still waiting for the costing on the Coalition’s plan to nationalise the eye-watering cost of seven nuclear plants.
June 2024
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Coalition’s taxpayer-funded nuclear con a road to ruin
We estimate that the fiscal damage would be in the order of a minimum $100 billion “nuke builder” tax, but likely considerably more given the international experience.
May 2024
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Failure to deliver green pipeline is keeping Eraring open
The NSW government has left its green energy project pipeline languishing for years. Now it is charging a coal keeper tax instead.
April 2024
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Voting down Woodside’s climate plan a shareholder activism milestone
This is a pivotal moment for other climate-science-denying board directors, a signal to act on their fiduciary duties, or suffer the consequences personally.
February 2024
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Forrest is right: don’t swallow the Coalition’s nuclear and rooftop fairytales
It’s just more disrupt and delay tactics from the incorrigible climate denialists who brought us a devastating decade of energy policy failure.
December 2023
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Big super’s foiling of Brookfield’s Origin bid a win for petrostate of old
The spotlight is now on AustralianSuper to step up and provide a superior Australian new zero-emissions capacity and firming solution.
November 2023
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Big Super shouldn’t block Brookfield’s bid for Origin Energy
AustralianSuper’s spoiler act trashes a key consideration that, along with members’ interests, the broader national interest should be paramount.
September 2023
- Opinion
- Energy transition
It’s time for NSW to close Eraring
The AEMO has shown that unreliable and risky coal-fired generators can be replaced by renewables, batteries, and gas peaking power.
August 2023
- Opinion
- Energy transition
It’s time to power up from a petrostate to an electrostate
Government investment is a must to seize the once-in-a-century opportunity to leverage our natural advantages and position ourselves as a value-adding clean industry and export superpower.