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No 'wriggle room' for Australia's transition to renewables

Australia's energy grid on track to transition to renewables - but if projects are delayed, or fall over then blackouts will happen.

Published: with Sabra Lane

Sabra Lane is the host of the ABC's AM program.
Duration: 20 minutes 13 seconds

Australia's transition to renewables 'on track'

The Australian Energy Market Operator has scaled back its warnings about Australia's power grid in its latest update. 

Published: by Sabra Lane

Electricity poles and wires stretching across a cloudy sky in an open, green field.
Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds

No rate cuts until next year

Economists are warning struggling Australian households against celebrating new monthly data showing inflation is easing. 

Published: by Oliver Gordon

Business people walk past a shiny black sign that reads "Reserve Bank of Australia".
Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds

New Caledonia unrest on agenda at Pacific Islands Forum

At the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will sit down with his Pacific counterparts in the town of Vavu today - on top the top of the agenda is New Caledonia .. which has been riven by unrest.

Published: by Stephen Dziedzic

Anthony Albanese in a beige and brown patterned shirt stands at a lectern, with four Pacific leaders behind him.
Duration: 3 minutes 22 seconds

West Bank military operation to disrupt 'Iranian influence'

A series of major Israeli military raids are continuing in the occupied West Bank with at least ten Palestinians dead. They were launched simultaneously 24 hours ago across a number of flashpoint cities.

Published: by Allyson Horn

A man points to the ceiling of his home, which is blackened from the top to the floor including shells of couches
Duration: 2 minutes 49 seconds

Coalition pledges to re-open Australian embassy in Ukraine

The federal coalition's promising to re-open Australia's embassy in Ukraine immediately, if it is elected at the next election, which is expected before May next year. The Shadow foreign Minister Simon Birmingham is currently in Kyiv.

Published: by Sabra Lane

A group of men and women in hi-vis vests and helmets carry a person on a stretcher into a van in the pre-dawn morning.
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds

How an Australian couple survived kidnapping in Africa

A doctor from Western Australia, kidnapped by Islamist militants in west Africa and held for over seven years in the Sahara, has spoken of his ordeal for the first time.

Published: by Jonathan Holmes

A man sits next to his wife.
Duration: 3 minutes 7 seconds

Concerns staff shortages are causing delayed inductions

Health unions are sounding the alarm over maternity care in Tasmania's capital.

Published: by Alexandra Humphries

Dr Kirsten Connan sits in her office.
Duration: 3 minutes 33 seconds

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