100 per cent sure Bowen knows best on renewables target
Infrastructure NSW chairman Graham Bradley has warned that poor planning, lack of community consultation and rising costs meant Labor’s renewables energy target was unrealistic.
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Dutton’s lunch policy a threat to budget: Treasury
Peter Dutton’s plan to revive taxpayer-funded business lunches would cost the budget $1.6bn a year and potentially far more, according to Treasury analysis commissioned and released Labor.
Eye on target: Chalmers brushes off fears on ‘unrealistic’ green goal
Jim Chalmers has dismissed concerns from the nation’s largest business body that Labor will have to revisit its renewables target of 82 per cent by 2030 amid crippling energy prices and looming supply shortfalls.
Food firms revolt over power-costs crisis
Employers supplying food to the major shopping centre retailers and thousands of cafes, restaurants and pubs are urging Anthony Albanese to drop his 82 per cent renewables target and focus on ramping up coal and gas production.
Price to follow Thatcher playbook
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she will follow the principles of Margaret Thatcher in helping the Coalition give ‘power back to the people by implementing small government’.
Economists urge RBA to follow US and spare the rates cut knife
After the US Federal Reserve kept rates on hold for the first time since July, JudoBank chief economic adviser Warren Hogan said it was ‘very much a cautionary tale for the RBA’.
Chalmers launches economic poll fight as inflation falls
As the odds overwhelmingly firm for an interest-rate cut in February, Jim Chalmers declares the government had handled the cost-of-living crisis better than other countries.
‘Woke’ banks feel Trump heat on exiting UN climate pact
Australia’s big banks will not immediately follow US lenders in quitting the UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance but believe climate targets must be more realistic, amid a trans-Tasman push by Coalition MPs and NZ ministers to abandon the pact.
Worst of inflation ‘well and truly behind us’: Treasurer
After inflation fell to its lowest level in four years, Jim Chalmers hailed ‘remarkable progress’ and said a soft landing for the economy now looked likely but he would refrain from giving the RBA any advice.
Inflation on the right track but interest rate cuts in doubt
The Reserve Bank may resist cutting rates because its outlook is complicated by a strong jobs market, high government spending and a falling dollar, a new Deloitte Access Economics report says, despite underlying inflation moving towards the 2-3 per cent target band.
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