Josh Frydenberg has personally urged Tony Abbott to keep an open mind on the report of chief scientist Alan Finkel amid signs the former prime minister and other conservatives will fight the need for a Clean Energy Target.
The pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to step aside following a humiliating election grew after her two top aides resigned and The Times pronounced her "fatally wounded".
Embattled UK Prime Minister Theresa May scraped together a government by reaching a deal with a Northern Irish party, amid a report Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is preparing to vie for her job.
A defiant President Donald Trump has accused former FBI director James Comey of committing perjury in his blockbuster Senate testimony.
Business has spoken. Large companies are desperate to end the impasse over energy policy that has given Australia the costliest and dirtiest energy in the Western world, and see Alan Finkel's energy stability plan become a reality.
Theresa May has plunged Westminster into a period of chronic instability at a time when the UK faces the most critical constitutional challenge in its post-war history.
Household power bills will drop, there will be fewer blackouts, emissions will fall and the use of coal-fired power will decline slightly, under a Clean Energy Target.
For the Prime Minister, the Finkel report offers the base for a slow climb back with voters on climate policy – if his party lets him.
James Comey's historic calling out of a sitting President signals the political neophyte Trump is vulnerable to being outmanoeuvred.
A Clean Energy Target is effectively an extension of the existing Renewable Target, but it will be a politically easier fix for the Turnbull...
If a Clean Energy Target is to succeed, both the far left and the far right have to be ignored.
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