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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

‘Unanswered questions’: Dutton’s plan to cut gas bills under fire from experts

The Coalition is facing pressure to explain how its plan to cause a gas glut will lead to sustained bill relief, as experts rubbish its new modelling.

  • Nick Toscano

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Solar panels on roofs in the outer Melbourne suburb of Sunbury.

Everything you need to know about Labor’s home battery promise

One in three households have solar panels but only one in 40 have a home battery. That could be about to change.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Dutton reveals details of campaign pledge to cut power prices

After years attacking Anthony Albanese for his broken promise to lower power prices, Peter Dutton has made a campaign pledge of his own.

  • Paul Sakkal and Mike Foley
Woodside’s Louisiana LNG site.

Woodside firms up US export dream despite oil price plunge

Australia’s biggest energy company is edging closer to approving a huge liquefied gas project in the US, even as Donald Trump’s tariff war sends commodity prices tumbling.

  • Nick Toscano
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has dumped his pledge to curtail Commonwealth public servants working from home.

Mining sector urges Dutton not to class gas a ‘critical mineral’

Classing gas as a “critical mineral” would qualify gas drillers for support from a $4 billion loans facility.

  • Nick Toscano and Simon Johanson
It’s been a week of a federal election heavily dominated by world politics. Here’s what Adam Bandt, Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese have been saying, and if it’s true.

Exaggerations from Albanese, Dutton lost in Trump’s tariff blitz

We take a look at the prime minister’s claim Dutton wanted to end bulk-billing and the Coalition’s claim grocery prices are up 30 per cent under Labor.

  • Bronte Gossling
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Like other coal-fired plants, Eraring is nearing the end of its life.

NSW taxpayers spared cost of keeping giant coal-fired power station open

Using taxpayers’ money to extend the life of Eraring would have put the NSW Labor government on course for a clash with renewable energy advocates and climate campaigners.

  • Alexandra Smith
Shell’s Prelude floating LNG vessel off the WA coast flaring excess gas. WA was the only state to reserve gas for its local market.

In Australia’s energy dilemma, Japan may end up selling us our own gas

The humiliation of Australia, the energy superpower, is now a very real prospect as we face the need to buy gas from our biggest customer.

  • Colin Kruger
Nationals leader David Littleproud during a doorstop interview in the press gallery at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 24 March 2025.

Nationals leader promises lower power prices within years

The Coalition had avoided making the vow after Labor was burned by its 2022 promise to drop power prices by $275.

  • Olivia Ireland and Mike Foley
NSW and Victoria are running out of gas and have little option but to import it.

Minutes to midnight: Why Australia may soon be burning foreign gas

Australia may be one of the biggest sellers of gas overseas but supplies of the fuel are running dangerously low in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

  • Nick Toscano

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