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Perry Williams is The Australian’s Chief Business Correspondent. He was previously Business Editor and a senior reporter covering energy and has also worked at Bloomberg and the Australian Financial Review as resources editor and deputy companies editor.

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Santos vice president of Technical and Engineering Diana Hoff, an American recruit, at head office in Adelaide.

Billionaires back Taroom Trough gas explorer for IPO success

A budding gas explorer in Queensland has lured investment from some of Australia’s most high profile billionaires with a sharemarket float planned in 2026.

TechnologyBusiness

10/12/2025 :

One founder was missing from Atlassian’s 10-year party

The tech billionaires once shared greasy pizza to commemorate their company’s float. Ten years later, Atlassian is a solo act, with one half of its ‘crazy mission’ skipping the party.

John Stensholt and Perry Williams

Renewable EnergyNews

Fire at the solar farm Source: Facebook

Giant NSW solar farm 90pc back online after fire

One of Australia’s biggest solar farms says it has returned to 90 per cent capacity after a grass fire spread across 87 hectares during extreme hot weather.

ExclusiveMining & Energy

A flame blazes on top of a flare stack at the Queensland Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas (QCLNG) project site, operated by QGC Pty, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, in Gladstone, Australia, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Gas from more than 2,500 wells travels hundreds of miles by pipeline to the project, where it's chilled and pumped into 10-story-high tanks before being loaded onto massive ships. Photographer: Patrick Hamilton/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Cause for concern: Chevron warns Labor on gas reform

Chevron has warned the Albanese government that looming gas market intervention may damage investor confidence as cabinet prepares to finalise a major reservation scheme.

Colin Packham and Perry Williams

exclusiveRenewable energy & economy

A slump in renewable energy investment has sparked fears Australia will miss its 2030 target.

Solar, wind investment crash puts renewable target in doubt

Australia needs 6 gigawatts annually of wind and solar added to meet its 2030 renewable targets. This year is shaping up as a decade low for signed off investments despite a giant supply pipeline.

Perry Williams and Rachel Baxendale

COP31 rolePolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 24, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Albanese leaps to his minister’s defence amid onslaught

Anthony Albanese has hit back in question time against a concerted Coalition attack on absent Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, now that he’s president of negotiations for next year’s COP climate summit.

Sarah Ison and Perry Williams

EnergyNation

Mount Piper coal Power Station, Portland NSW

AEMO demands longer coal plant closure notices

Coal power plants may be forced to give five years notice of shutting down as energy authorities scramble to prevent blackouts during the transition to renewables.

HydrogenMining & Energy

A twitter post by Chris Bowen where he announced The Hunter and Newcastle would be Australia's first green hydrogen hub. Seen here at the Orica facility on Kooragang Island.

Green hydrogen giant pitches Labor to take equity in projects

Australia’s largest green hydrogen developer has urged the government to buy stakes in major projects, as Orica accuses fossil fuel giants of undermining the sector’s growth.

Climate ChangePolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 19, 2025: Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Chief Executive Officer Nuno Matos and Group Head Corporate Affairs, Dr Tony Warren appear at the Standing committee on economics, Review of Australia's four major banks at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Net zero medicine ‘may kill patient’: ANZ chief

ANZ’s chief executive has warned rushing to net-zero emissions could be ‘medicine that kills the patient’ as major banks raise concerns over Australia’s climate targets.

Perry Williams, Elizabeth Pike and Max Aitchison

WOLLONGONG, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 14, 2025. The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was in Wollongong today and will tour the BlueScope Steelworks at Port Kembla. Picture: PMO via NewsWire

BlueScope adds its voice to calls for government gas price action

As it issued a downbeat outlook for its earnings, Australia’s largest steelmaker has told investors that Australia must introduce a gas reservation scheme for the sake of industry.

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