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Energy

October 2024

  • Steven Miles

    Queensland premier will hold plebiscite on nuclear power if he wins state election

  • Adelaide housing

    Some Australian states are discovering what happens when they have too much rooftop solar

  • Queensland's opposition leader David Crisafulli

    Queensland’s LNP leader David Crisafulli says plan to end coal energy by early 2030s is ‘fanciful’

  • Tanya Plibersek at the nature-positive summit in Sydney

    Full Story
    Have Labor’s ‘nature-positive’ plans turned negative? – Full Story podcast

  • Temperature Check
    Andrew Forrest says net zero is ‘fantasy’ so his goal is ‘real zero’. What does he mean – and can he achieve it?

    Graham Readfearn
  • Australia’s coalmines and gasfields may be emitting twice as much methane as declared, report warns

  • Australian astrophysicist’s $250,000 prize for field-changing discovery a ‘nice surprise’

  • Guardian Essential poll: voters back drastic policy action on Australia’s cost-of-living crisis

  • Full Story
    Australia’s growing reliance on burning rubbish for energy – Full Story podcast

  • Australia news live
    Rally organisers and police reach agreement – as it happened

  • Queensland energy minister tells court he was not made aware of Callide safety concerns before explosion

  • Grogonomics
    Plibersek’s coalmine decision is double trouble for climate and housing

    Greg Jericho
  • Miles promises Queensland households the cheapest power in mainland national electricity market if Labor wins

  • WA Labor government accused of shelving climate laws as emissions continue to rise

  • New state-owned energy retailer will put ‘people before profits’, Steven Miles says

September 2024

  • Adam Morton

    Clear Air
    Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph

    Adam Morton
    It’s difficult to overstate how rapidly Australians have embraced solar power – there’s now more rooftop solar than coal-fired power. The key question is what policymakers can learn from its success
  • Tim Winton

    Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread

    Tim Winton
    The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are
    • Australian climate and environment in focus
      Burning rubbish to create energy could end landfills. But some worry where Australia’s new path is leading

    • Temperature Check
      Stuck on repeat: why Peter Dutton’s ‘greatest hits’ on nuclear power are worse than a broken record

      Graham Readfearn
    • Australia news live
      Greens MP invokes Whitlam in public housing push – as it happened

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