ExclusiveMining & EnergyImproving the performance of the carbon capture and storage unit at Chevron’s Gorgon facility would undercut allegations the technology, widely seen as needed to get to net zero emissions, does not work.
GARDENINGThe Weekend Australian MagazineThis central Victorian garden is thriving despite hot dry summers, low rainfall, and soil described as ‘mining rubble, devoid of organic matter’. How did they do it?
Helen Young
There is nothing that the left in Australia likes more than high-profile Liberals who turn on the institution that made them politically famous.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallSomeone within the Liberal camp hit on an ingenious solution to head off the possibility of an embarrassing confrontation at a Peter Dutton election stop in Sydney – cash.
exclusivePoliticsClimate 200 has used children in a political ad that depicts them quoting Peter Dutton and his MPs on climate and energy policy, prompting criticism from the Coalition and youth psychologists.
EXCLUSIVEPoliticsPeter Dutton and senior Liberal figures are preparing campaign blitzes of teal-held seats and Coalition electorates targeted by independents.
EXCLUSIVEPoliticsThe Coalition will abolish fines for car companies who breach targets under Australia’s first vehicle emissions standards scheme.
energyRenewable energy & economyBeach Energy chief executive Brett Woods says the pursuit of curbing emissions has led to Australia’s elevated cost of living.
CFO JOURNALCFO JournalThe movement towards widespread climate reporting laws remains a global long-term trend. Given Australia is out in front, our focus is on supporting business to get to compliance and drive future strategic advantage through these no-regret moves.
Darren Gerber and Andrea Culligan
Chris Bowen has offered a swathe of western Sydney suburbs a $400 electricity price cut – raising the same questions about the promises upon which Labor’s renewable energy policy is based.
DecarbonisationRenewable energy & economyAs more developers miss out on prized transmission access, some are exploring the idea of supporting prospective data centres in a tactical reinvention of their business models.
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Politics NowNationThe Reserve Bank does not expect Australia to experience a recession in the year ahead, despite growing concern from some analysts that the United States’ economy could shrink.
Telling kids to get a degree about climate when PNG contributes next to nothing in global emissions and can do nothing about it is another Western frolic.
If we were only interested in affordable and reliable electricity, we would’ve stuck with coal and replaced the ageing plants with high-efficiency, low-emissions plants.
energyPoliticsLabor has been accused of privately assuring industry wholesale electricity prices will fall over the next decade while refusing to make the same promise publicly.
EditorialThe Coalition needs to produce clear figures as soon as possible.
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EXCLUSIVEPoliticsAn Australian taxpayer-backed scholarship for students from PNG is pushing applications to focus on ‘gender, climate and disability-related studies’ instead of agriculture, education, and health.
ClimateWorldFormer US vice president Al Gore says the Trump administration has ‘limited’ ability to stop the ‘sustainability revolution’.
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ENERGY ELECTION WARSPoliticsAnthony Albanese’s energy transition has been rocked after he junked ALP-commissioned modelling underpinning Labor’s power bill reduction and emissions reduction targets | WATCH
LIVENewsWireClimate protesters have crashed a second Peter Dutton event on a dramatic first day of campaigning for the May 3 federal election.
Jessica Wang and Nathan Schmidt POLITICS NOWPoliticsThe opposition leader is ‘dead against’ the policy and will soon unveil a plan to bring down the cost of cars and utes.
UNCERTAIN FUTUREReviewA new book, by one of Germany’s green-left darlings, argues that we, the capitalist West, need to revive the Blitz spirit of World War II England. Our contemporary emergency is not genocidal Nazism – it’s is climate change.
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The Weekend Australian MagazineNoah could overfill his ark at Elmswood. And given the threat of climate change, we’d like to provide more passengers for his cruise ship.
EXCLUSIVENationLiberals are braced to be outspent in the cutthroat Goldstein election as climate cash pours into Zoe Daniel’s campaign pockets.
EXCLUSIVEPoliticsAnti-nuclear climate activists have crashed another Liberal Party event, infiltrating a $3000-a-head fundraiser.
Business Breaking NewsThe ASX finished slightly up on Friday, but investors remain uncertain over a potential hung parliament and US President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
ExclusiveNationClimate 200 polling in Bradfield has spruiked Nicolette Boele’s role as a ‘clean-energy executive’ and credentials as a ‘local mum’, before asking voters if they had heard of her.
Politics NowNationAnti-nuclear climate activists have crashed another key Liberal party event, infiltrating the Opposition’s $3000-a-head fundraiser following Peter Dutton’s budget reply on Thursday night.
green economyTechnologySamara Eco has hired two new executives from the US to help scale its recycling technology, which aims to change fashion and combat plastic pollution.
EditorialMajor progress in improving defence is kicked down the road again.
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