Households stand to gain “hundreds of dollars” in lower energy bills from a dramatic shift to a new scheme.
Alan Finkel recommends a Clean Energy Target and calls on the government to launch the scheme to spur new power investment.
Daniel Andrews has ruled out abandoning Victoria’s 40 per cent renewable energy target.
Surfers in south-western Australia are watching their community take the next step in renewable energy.
Greater Sydney Commission head Lucy Turnbull is backing a massive tree planting program in western Sydney.
EnergyAustralia has boosted relief funding for customers unable to pay their power bills.
A clash over coal power threatens to wreck Malcolm Turnbull’s energy reforms.
Bill Shorten has cleared the ground for talks with Malcolm Turnbull to end the “climate wars” with a letter.
Tony Abbott warns over adopting a low emissions target that made it hard to build new coal-fired power stations.
Steel giant BlueScope has controversially backed a clean energy target for the electricity sector.
Wind and solar farms will be forced to meet tougher standards to guarantee reliable energy.
The Greens have moved to split Labor and the Coalition over energy policy.
Labor will likely back proposed low emissions target scheme, according to the party’s energy spokesman Mark Butler.
Business Council of Australia chief Jennifer Westacott has backed a low emissions target.
Industry groups have backed a low-emissions target plan, to be revealed in the Finkel review of the NEM.
Australia may step up its role in global climate talks after the US’s withdrawal from the Paris deal.
Nick Xenophon has been handed a new bargaining tool by a report recommending an emissions intensity scheme.
Iconic, ailing Australian satirist Clive James has penned a savage essay on climate change alarmism.
The electricity industry would have to meet a new low-emissions target that favoured only clean coal-fired power.
A group of Coalition MPs is urging Malcolm Turnbull to consider pulling Australia out of the Paris climate accord.
Households stand to gain “hundreds of dollars” in lower energy bills from a dramatic shift to a new scheme.
Years before Omarkhayam Maute pledged allegiance to Islamic State he first tested his ideas in a quiet Indonesian village.
Victoria and South Australia are at risk of blackouts because of the closure of the Hazelwood power station.
It will get worse before it gets better for electricity consumers who face more sharp price hikes despite a review.
Slashing the planned 10-year time frame to reduce over-funded schools would save more than $660 million.
Australia’s political leaders will hold a special security meeting to review terror laws.
Economic growth forecasts over Queensland state budgets have been correct just once in 15 years.
Universities are working with companies linked to the People’s Liberation Army on advanced weaponry and surveillance.
The ABC/Fairfax ‘revelations’ about Chinese influence-peddling in Australia don’t add up to much.
While politics revolves around GDP, the statistic obscures what’s really going on in the economy.
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