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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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Energy’s a big part of living costs, but fixing it won’t be cheap

Voters seem permanently obsessed with energy prices, and they’ve figured in most election campaigns for decades. But it’s mainly been smoke and mirrors.

  • Ross Gittins
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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
Over the past four years, there has been an 11-petajoule decline in gas consumption from industrial users in Victoria.

Gas use has fallen as manufacturers close. Some say this spells economic trouble

Closures of large gas-reliant manufacturers have helped spare Victoria from gas shortages. But it has raised alarms over the state’s economy.

  • Kieran Rooney and Hannah Kennelly
Peter Dutton says he will create a gas reservation for the east coast of Australia.

More fossil fuels? Inside Peter Dutton’s shock new gas proposal

The opposition leader’s Robin Hood-like plan may sound like a dream in theory, but lowering household energy bills is a bit more complex in reality.

  • Bronte Gossling
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While Australia is one of the world’s top shippers of LNG, most of that gas is produced in Queensland or WA, and is sold on long-term contracts to buyers in Asia.

Dutton’s gas plan will chill investment, warns global energy giant

Global energy major Shell is warning Peter Dutton that his plan to curb Australia’s gas exports will stunt investment and fail to boost supplies of the fuel.

  • Nick Toscano
Peter Dutton’s net approval rating has fallen neither party seems to be any closer to winning government in its own right.

‘Hard to see how lower pricing will emerge’: Experts doubtful of Dutton’s gas plan

The opposition leader claims his plan will deliver enough gas locally to swiftly cut the wholesale price of $14 a gigajoule to $10.

  • Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
Excavators mining rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil in February 2025.

‘Never seen anything like it’: How Trump plans to make Ukraine a ‘province’ of US industry

Europe and Britain will have to foot the bill for rebuilding what remains of the besieged nation, while the US scoops up its chief means of economic recovery.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek.

Greenpeace bid at heart of new Woodside North West Shelf delay

Both Greenpeace and the Conservation Council WA want Plibersek to rule on Woodside’s $30 billion Browse gas field development alongside the NWS extension proposal.

  • Hamish Hastie

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