This Month
Qld premier raises problem of water risk under Dutton’s nuclear plan
Labor Premier Steven Miles has quoted a new report outlining the need for a state-based plebiscite to adopt the Coalition’s nuclear plan.
- James Hall
Albanese makes three-day assault on Queensland battleground
The prime minister has thrown down the gauntlet in Queensland during a pseudo-election-campaign tour.
- James Hall
‘Folly’: Littleproud brushes aside Qld LNP’s nuclear stance
Nuclear energy was the elephant in the room at the LNP convention in Brisbane on Saturday, where Peter Dutton forged ahead with the pitch.
- Updated
- James Hall
- Exclusive
- Energy
LNP to debate nuclear despite ‘intriguing’ omission
The LNP’s Queensland base will be “white-hot angry” if convention doesn’t debate nuclear energy, senior federal MP warns.
- James Hall
‘Not the Coalition I used to support’: Samuel savages Dutton’s break-up plan
Former competition regulator Graeme Samuel and senior Liberal Kate Carnell have savaged Peter Dutton’s plan to break up supermarket giants, warning it could push up grocery prices.
- Tom McIlroy
June
Vapes would be sold like cigarettes under Coalition policy
Vapes would be subject to an excise tax that could raise billions of dollars annually, under a proposal unveiled by shadow health spokeswoman Anne Ruston.
- Ronald Mizen
Nuclear to wreak ‘catastrophic damage’ on renewable energy
Clean investor groups say the Coalition’s scheme will take too long, cost too much, and is incompatible with timely and cost-efficient energy transition.
- Elouise Fowler
Climate wars to escalate with Dutton to unveil nuclear sites
Peter Dutton will escalate the climate wars on Wednesday by announcing site plans for nuclear power plants.
- Phillip Coorey
May
Push for wider carbon capture ban in Great Artesian Basin
The Albanese government is being pressured to follow Queensland’s lead and slap a ban on carbon capture and storage projects in the entire underground water network.
- James Hall
School graffiti attack builds heat on government over antisemitism
The government could not say whether a graffiti attack on a Jewish school would be covered by proposed new hate laws.
- Phillip Coorey
April
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton’s atomic bet threatens Coalition chain reaction over climate
Rather than keep the heat on Labor’s handling of the cost-of-living pain as inflation stays high, the opposition leader’s nuclear venture risks becoming the story.
- Jacob Greber
Albanese looks to states for power price help
The prime minister looks set to call on state and territory governments to help deliver further household energy cost relief in the May 14 federal budget.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Political leadership
A governor-general from the Chairman’s Lounge
The PM is truer than he knows when he says Sam Mostyn represents modern Australia. It’s a nation of talkers, not doers.
- John Roskam
March
Dutton vetoes Nats-Greens supermarket break-up plan
The Opposition Leader committed the Coalition to develop laws that could extend to forcibly breaking up Coles and Woolworths.
- Tom McIlroy
Supermarket break-up push ‘a wider economic risk’
Frustrated by political interference, business leaders want major parties to rule out a Greens bill this week to bust up Coles and Woolworths.
- Tom McIlroy
Consumers to lose from push to break up supermarkets
Shoppers would be among the biggest losers from any forced break-up of supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, business leaders have warned.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Could ‘HECS-for-solar’ slash power bills and save climate goal?
Scientist Saul Griffith has a bold plan that could slash your power bill by $5000 a year, cut a quarter of household emissions, and employ thousands of people. Politicians on both sides are listening. Could it work?
- Jacob Greber
February
Coalition selling false hope with nuclear power ‘bulldust’: Forrest
The Fortescue chief says advocating nuclear power is a ploy by the fossil fuel industry to delay for decades the required shift to clean energy.
- Phillip Coorey
Woolworths price-gouging claims overblown: retail investor group
The Australian Shareholders’ Association defended outgoing chief executive Brad Banducci and the company’s pricing model.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Why the Coalition wants more homes with solar and batteries
Labor runs the risk of being outflanked by an emerging Coalition plan to expand household and business solar and storage, at the expense of big business.
- Jacob Greber