Energy
‘Unanswered questions’: Dutton’s plan to cut gas bills under fire from experts
The Coalition is facing pressure to explain how its plan to cause a gas glut will lead to sustained bill relief, as experts rubbish its new modelling.
- Nick Toscano
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Everything you need to know about Labor’s home battery promise
One in three households have solar panels but only one in 40 have a home battery. That could be about to change.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Dutton reveals details of campaign pledge to cut power prices
After years attacking Anthony Albanese for his broken promise to lower power prices, Peter Dutton has made a campaign pledge of his own.
- Paul Sakkal and Mike Foley
Woodside firms up US export dream despite oil price plunge
Australia’s biggest energy company is edging closer to approving a huge liquefied gas project in the US, even as Donald Trump’s tariff war sends commodity prices tumbling.
- Nick Toscano
Mining sector urges Dutton not to class gas a ‘critical mineral’
Classing gas as a “critical mineral” would qualify gas drillers for support from a $4 billion loans facility.
- Nick Toscano and Simon Johanson
Exaggerations from Albanese, Dutton lost in Trump’s tariff blitz
We take a look at the prime minister’s claim Dutton wanted to end bulk-billing and the Coalition’s claim grocery prices are up 30 per cent under Labor.
- Bronte Gossling
NSW taxpayers spared cost of keeping giant coal-fired power station open
Using taxpayers’ money to extend the life of Eraring would have put the NSW Labor government on course for a clash with renewable energy advocates and climate campaigners.
- Alexandra Smith
- Opinion
- Gas
In Australia’s energy dilemma, Japan may end up selling us our own gas
The humiliation of Australia, the energy superpower, is now a very real prospect as we face the need to buy gas from our biggest customer.
- Colin Kruger
Nationals leader promises lower power prices within years
The Coalition had avoided making the vow after Labor was burned by its 2022 promise to drop power prices by $275.
- Olivia Ireland and Mike Foley
Minutes to midnight: Why Australia may soon be burning foreign gas
Australia may be one of the biggest sellers of gas overseas but supplies of the fuel are running dangerously low in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
- Nick Toscano
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