07:10:00 14/03/2017
The South Australian government is preparing to deliver its 'wide ranging' energy plan, which it claims will stabilise the grid and help put an end to soaring prices. It has promised the reforms will be in place to combat power reserve shortfalls predicted next summer. Details of the proposals will be revealed this morning, with gas set to play a key role, but nothing has been ruled out, including the re-nationalisation of the state's privatised market. More
07:14:00 14/03/2017
A report out today says competition in energy retailing has failed and that government might need to re-regulate prices to protect consumers. The Grattan Institute study has confirmed what most people know too well - a power bill 'shock' with prices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with retail prices doubling over the past decade. The report comes as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prepares to meet energy company bosses to confront what some have described as a looming energy catastrophe - with reregulation a potential threat. More
07:18:00 14/03/2017
An Adani subsidiary owned in the Cayman Islands has a right to a $2 a tonne 'royalty' payment during the first 20 years of production at the massive Carmichael mine in Queensland. The royalty right means up to $3 billion dollars in payments that could flow to an entity controlled in tax haven by the Adani family — the result of what one critic calls a 'classic third world pyramid structure'. More
07:22:00 14/03/2017
The Federal Government has hailed its cashless welfare card trial a success in Ceduna in South Australia and in Western Australia's East Kimberley and will continue to use it in both regions. But the Human Services Minister Alan Tudge won't say whether the Government plans to roll it out to welfare recipients across the nation. More
07:26:00 14/03/2017
Australian woman Sara Connor was convicted of killing a police officer in Bali and now has seven days to decide if she will appeal her four year jail sentence. Her family have told the ABC in a statement that they were devastated and that the trial has been traumatic for the woman's two young sons who live in Byron Bay. More
