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NDIS delay to cost $1.1b as senators jet off to Brazil
Disability Minister Bill Shorten warns that a Coalition proposal to delay the government’s NDIS overhaul by two months will cost taxpayers $137 million per week.
- Michael Read
Saving less and spending less: why Australian households are unique
Australians are saving much less than their global peers as mortgage repayments and tax bracket creep eat into disposable incomes.
- Michael Read
Why top companies are starting to back away from green targets
In the past year, many of the world’s biggest companies have dropped or missed goals to cut emissions or to loosen ties with polluting sectors.
- Attracta Mooney
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$7b green bond to rally nation’s net zero goals
Australia’s commitment to sustainability has taken a giant leap forward with the issue of the nation’s $7 billion inaugural sovereign green bond.
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The gambler: Dutton bets it all on nuclear
The opposition leader is hoping his energy wager could return the Coalition to government. But if it all goes badly wrong, his dream of becoming prime minister could be lost.
- Tom McIlroy
State spending splurge could delay interest rate cuts, warns Westpac
Governments are planning to inject more than $50 billion of stimulus into the economy in the year ahead, adding to inflation pressures, the bank has warned.
- John Kehoe
Opinion & Analysis
Climate 200 cancelled my talk. Here is my case for nuclear
My presentation to Engineers Australia would have outlined why a nuclear-based energy system would cost consumers half as much with four times fewer emissions.
Nuclear advocate
Japan’s LNG diplomacy is in Australia’s national interest
Any move to curb LNG exports that undermine Australia’s reputation would not just threaten new gas projects but damage Australia’s green superpower hopes.
Editorial
Why this is a practical, workable supermarket code of conduct
The new code offers the best of both a mandatory and voluntary system of compliance for the supermarket giants.
Former Labor minister and economist
Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan just a new ideological front
Letters from readers on the Coalition’s proposal for nuclear power, the Armaguard cash deal, the plan to rein in supermarket power, and military recruitment.
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Climate 200 cancelled my talk. Here is my case for nuclear
My presentation to Engineers Australia would have outlined why a nuclear-based energy system would cost consumers half as much with four times fewer emissions.
- Robert Parker
Yesterday
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- The AFR View
Japan’s LNG diplomacy is in Australia’s national interest
Any move to curb LNG exports that undermine Australia’s reputation would not just threaten new gas projects but damage Australia’s green superpower hopes.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Supermarket inquiry
Why this is a practical, workable supermarket code of conduct
The new code offers the best of both a mandatory and voluntary system of compliance for the supermarket giants.
- Craig Emerson
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan just a new ideological front
Letters from readers on the Coalition’s proposal for nuclear power, the Armaguard cash deal, the plan to rein in supermarket power, and military recruitment.
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Mackenzie’s climate change
It shouldn’t surprise to hear the head of a global oil company talking his own book. But it’s no use pretending that the decarbonisation transition is more difficult and more costly than many imagined.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Culture war is driving Coalition’s plan to stop renewables rollout
The first auction of the Capacity Investment Scheme has received more than 40 gigawatts of project registrations, showing there is a strong pipeline of renewables ready to go with the right policy settings.
- Chris Bowen
This Month
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Supermarket crackdown avoids break-up overreach
Yet what remains unexplained is how shoring up the bargaining power of incumbent suppliers will actually lower prices for families at the checkout or will have the unintended regulatory consequences of meaning higher prices.
- The AFR View
Nuclear debate can change the nation
Letters from readers on Peter Dutton’s nuclear push and gas exports.
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Nuclear is unviable because of economics, not engineering
Even if all that mattered was the cheapest possible energy that meets minimum levels of reliability and emissions, the Coalition’s plan fails.
- Steven Hamilton and Luke Heeney
- Opinion
- Putin's Russia
Putin to Xi: I have options in East Asia
The Russian President’s visits last week to North Korea and Vietnam shows Russia’s residual capacity to stir trouble in East Asia.
- James Curran
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Nuclear election poses energy transition questions for both sides
The Coalition’s nuclear option deserves a proper debate, not the puerile meme scare campaign that Labor is running.
- The AFR View
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- Income tax
How much extra tax you stand to pay because of bracket creep
The average taxpayer will lose $2000 to the so-called stealth tax in the next four years, which will deliver the federal government an extra $29 billion in revenue.
- Michael Read
- Opinion
- China relations
Why Australia needs to stop being PNG’s payday lender
It might seem a good, neighbourly thing to do. But loans can be damaging as poorly tied aid. The alternative is subsidising direct Australian business investment.
- Carolyn Blacklock
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Why I welcome a nuclear power station in my backyard
I have never been against some solar and wind power. My message is that we need a balanced mix of energy types.
- Matt Canavan
- Opinion
- Royal Australian Navy
Time to promote a woman as deputy chief of Navy
The officer second in charge of the Royal Australian Navy will shortly rotate, opening the way for a historic first appointment of a female.
- Jennifer Parker
Towns at ground zero say if nuclear means jobs, bring it on
People in Morwell and Traralgon, at ground zero of the nuclear debate, say the need for new jobs could win them over to Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy plans.
- Gus McCubbing
Super funds fall short on unlisted asset valuations: APRA
Super funds are not revaluing their $650 billion unlisted asset portfolios enough, potentially hitting the prices paid by customers and their returns, APRA has warned.
- Hannah Wootton
Locals might prefer nuclear to renewable poles and wires
Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy plan could win support from communities concerned about major infrastructure upgrades needed to get solar and wind power into the grid.
- Tom McIlroy, Gus McCubbing and Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- The AFR View
End the nuclear ban. Don’t stop renewables
There is a case for considering zero emissions nuclear power but as part of a technology-neutral energy approach to generating reliable baseload power and firmed wind and solar generation.
- The AFR View
China’s ‘predatory’ tactics justify critical mineral subsidies: Kennedy
Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy says China’s dominance of critical minerals justifies the government’s taxpayer support for rare earths the world needs.
- John Kehoe
