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Energy efficient apartments, such as Nightingale’s Parklife building, will soon have a more granular rating system.

The type of home that will save you $25,000 in energy bills

A star rating system shows which homes will have lower costs over time and which are set to rise in value faster than their neighbours.

  • Jim Malo

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Donald Trump and Peter Dutton.

Cut him some slack: Dutton says Trump relationship needs different approach

The opposition leader says the US president’s business background means he knows how to do a deal and Australia has to learn from that.

  • Shane Wright
Wholesale power prices surged in the last three months of 2024.

Power prices surge as coal and clean energy supply falters

Wholesale energy prices hit new highs months before the federal election, further intensifying the cost-of-living clash between Labor and the Coalition.

  • Mike Foley
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has branded Dutton’s promise to allow small businesses to deduct staff lunches a “complete farce”.

‘Everything will be worse under Dutton’: Chalmers on the economic attack

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has intensified his attack on the Coalition as the latest polling showed Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in the lead.

  • Millie Muroi
Penny Nelson recently bought a Toyota Rav 4 hybrid vehicle.

They’re cleaner and greener, so why won’t the government give hybrids tax breaks?

Australians bought 172,696 traditional hybrids – which have a diesel or petrol engine as well as an electric motor – last year, up 76 per cent on 2023.

  • Mike Foley
Victorian teachers may be about to push for more pupil-free days.

Parents shell out billions as back-to-school costs increase

Rising expenses and tech demands leave families scrambling for ways to save on uniform and equipment costs ahead of the new school year.

  • Rachael Ward
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Electric vehicle sales have slowed.

Cost-of-living crisis meets new era of electric cars

Customers are voting with their wallets and continuing to buy more clean cars despite a tougher economic outlook.

  • Mike Foley
The Hinkley C nuclear plant under construction in the UK, the country’s first in two decades.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

  • Mike Foley
Motorists in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are being stung with higher prices than in other cities in Australia.

Motorists play petrol lotto as stations pump up prices in big cities

A motorist advocate says there’s no reason why petrol is so much more expensive in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne than in other cities.

  • Mike Foley
Power bills.

The one easy thing you could do to save $317 a year on your bills

Households prepared to switch energy providers are saving 17 per cent more than their loyal counterparts, according to the competition watchdog.

  • Millie Muroi

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