Energy
‘Voldemort policy’: Labor, Coalition deny hiding energy plans in nuclear election
An earthquake shook a region slated for one of Peter Dutton’s nuclear plants and the PM visited another in a campaign in which the energy debate has been quietly shifted off stage.
- Mike Foley
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Petrol prices to tumble further amid turmoil on global oil market
Australian petrol prices are expected to continue dropping in the lead-up to the Easter and Anzac Day holidays as oil markets reel from Donald Trump’s tariff war.
- Nick Toscano
Victoria wants to burn more waste for energy – in someone else’s electorate
While the government has sought another lift to the cap on how much rubbish can be burned each year, proposed waste-to-energy projects are meeting community backlash and regulatory barriers.
- Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
‘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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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