Your afternoon Briefing: NEG policy to help lift renewable energy

Good afternoon, readers. The NEG to boost renewable energy production at the expense of coal and the Paris agreement could force culling.

Good afternoon, readers. The NEG will boost renewable energy production at the expense of coal and Craig Kelly says farmers will have to cull under the Paris agreement.

Senator Kristina Keneally at a doorstop at Parliament House in Canberra.

NEG policy to boost renewables

Malcolm Turnbull’s centrepiece energy policy will help lift renewable energy production at the expense of coal within 11 years, according to new modelling. The modelling forecast comes after Labor Senator Kristina Keneally’s call for the Prime Minister to explain why a small environmental group funded by mining giants received a $444m federal donation.

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Craig Kelly talking to media at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘Paris deal will force culling’

Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly says farmers will be forced to cull their animals under the Paris agreement.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses a media conference at the end of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on July 27, 2018, as the heads of the BRICS group -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- met in Johannesburg for an annual summit dominated by the risk of a US-led trade war. Five of the biggest emerging economies on July 26, stood by the multilateral system and vowed to strengthen economic cooperation in the face of US tariff threats and unilateralism. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Themba Hadebe

South Africa to allow land seizure

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress will push ahead with reforms to allow the taking of land without compensation.

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Jockey Ben Allen rides Snitzepeg to win race 8, Barbara Hardeman Vobis Gold Reef during Bletchingly Stakes Day at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne, Saturday, July 28, 2018. (AAP Image/George Salpigtidis) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Activists aim for racehorse ban

The animal rights’ lobby has got the thoroughbred industry in their sights, writes Jack the Insider. If they succeed what will be the fate of racehorses?

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NATADOLA, FIJI - OCTOBER 06: Jarrod Lyle of Australia lines up a putt during day one of the Fiji International at Natadola Bay Golf Course on October 6, 2016 in Natadola, Fiji. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Nation’s heart breaks

Tough bastard Jarrod Lyle. Not many tougher. Sometimes, however, even the toughest run out of fight.