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More than 4 million Australians are producing their own electricity from the sun via their rooftop solar.

Power giant warns of ‘two-speed’ green shift which benefits only the rich

The household clean energy boom may create winners and losers, warns power distribution company Ausgrid.

  • Nick Toscano

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Fire and smoke rise into the sky after an Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot in Tehran.

Israeli strikes on Iran’s oil stoke fears of higher petrol prices

Motorists can expect to pay 12¢ a litre more for petrol within weeks if the oil price spike caused by war in the Middle East continues, say economists.

  • Angus Delaney and Simon Johanson
ExxonMobil’s Marlin B platform in Bass Strait was traditionally the mainstay of Victoria’s gas supply but its fields are depleting rapidly.

Gas exporters on notice to lock in more supplies for Australians

The Albanese government has warned gas executives the public is “tired of seeing our vast gas resources exported overseas” while paying high prices at home.

  • Nick Toscano
Treasurer Jim Chalmers on election night.

Labor has the mandate to think big and seize opportunity

While the government may not wish to blindside the electorate, there is plenty of room for more ambitious reform in areas it has established as priorities.

  • The Age's View
Helen Caldicott can’t understand why Australian’s aren’t terrified of nuclear energy.

Australians once feared the health impacts of nuclear. Now nobody’s talking about it

Anti-nuclear advocacy once spurred huge protests and galvanised a political movement. With nuclear a core policy of the Coalition, few are talking about the medical dangers.

  • Angus Delaney
Donald Trump’s tariffs have depressed the price of oil.

Trump’s billionaire oil industry donors aren’t getting what they wished for

The US president said “drill, baby, drill” but his tariffs tanked the commodity’s price and they could reduce, not increase, production.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Where Albanese and Dutton stand on the eight key issues in this election

New tax and housing policies are latecomers to the campaign agenda that will dominate debate. Medicare and a nuclear energy fight are also in the conversation.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton avoided questions on some of the key issues facing the country.

As Albanese and Dutton fought it out, these were the questions they couldn’t answer

Are we seeing the impact of climate change? What will you cut? The leaders skirted around many questions, or ignored them altogether, in the second debate.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Labor plans to roll out subsidies for household batteries very soon.

Labor takes power bill election fight in-house with help to buy home batteries

Households are set to gain federal help to cut their energy bills under a government plan to make it easier for them to buy home batteries.

  • Paul Sakkal and David Crowe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Labor’s gas plan will do far more to reduce costs than the Coalition’s.

Albanese calls Dutton a copycat but won’t say who he gets his ideas from

The accusation came as the prime minister and the opposition leader duelled over plans to bring down the price of gas and lower household power bills.

  • David Crowe

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