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Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Australia's electric vehicle policy steers us to a future based on fossil fuels. It needs to be dumped
Australia is way behind on vehicle electrification, but there are solutions to help us catch up → Read More
2020 was dismal in many respects but it was a landmark year for renewables in Australia
As we kick off 2021, state governments are embracing decarbonisation to popular acclaim → Read More
Funded by 'extraordinary' ordinary Australians: the people who supported this series
We still feel that sense of helplessness and shame at what is being done in our name but we’ve played a part in bringing the plight of indefinitely detained asylum seekers to light → Read More
Angus Taylor's gas plan is an astoundingly bad idea, on so many levels
The federal government’s increasingly desperate and ideological energy market interventions are costing us all → Read More
Australia’s trilemma of providing good, fast and cheap energy finally has a clear solution
We now know that we can have an affordable, reliable and low emissions power system – and it needs a lot less coal and fossil gas → Read More
How Australia's state energy ministers are turning the tables on Angus Taylor
The state energy ministers still need to deliver on their promises, but imagine if any of them held the federal portfolio → Read More
The government's sudden passion for climate technology is newfound and insincere
The call for technology before action is a specious distraction designed to paper over the plan to take no action → Read More
Scott Morrison is stuck in a time warp
Let’s come clean and let the public know that there’s no domestic case for increasing gas extraction. It’s better we leave it in the ground → Read More
When it comes to emissions, the 'too small to matter' argument is absurd, reckless and morally bankrupt
Shortsighted, illogical and dishonest arguments are holding Australia back – and condemning us to more brutal summers → Read More
Australia's aluminium sector is on life support. It can and should be saved
Technology and leadership could save thousands of jobs and accelerate Australia’s energy transition → Read More
As Angus Taylor ducks, weaves and dithers, China zooms past
Australia could be a post-carbon superpower – but the energy minister must seize the day → Read More
What better replacement for dirty Hazelwood than a windfarm?
A plan to generate enough wind power for 200,000 homes hints at a coal valley’s clean energy future → Read More
Australia’s energy policy is a tangled mess built on a foundation of lies
The Coalition needs to come up with a credible climate policy. Tricky accounting and microwaved policy leftovers don’t cut it → Read More
In 2018 the Australian government chased its energy tail. Here's a more hopeful story
While the federal government dithered, business, the states and the public took matters into their own hands to dramatically change the energy picture → Read More
Angus Taylor condemns us to another round of energy stupidity
It’s not that Taylor is a climate change denier, it’s just that he’d rather work against effective climate policy → Read More
NEG promises death of wind and solar, and even battery storage
NEG modelling promises death of large scale solar and wind projects, as well as battery storage under government target, and does not make the case for price falls. → Read More
Why Liddell is likely to close in 2022, and why you shouldn’t care
It’s best not to get distracted by dead cats thrown on the table and just let AGL get on with its plans → Read More
No longer 'alternative', mainstream renewables are pushing prices down
While the government insists that renewables have made our grid unreliable, lights have stayed on and prices are dropping → Read More
It'd be wonderful if the claims made about carbon capture were true
Josh Frydenberg talks up carbon capture and storage not because it’s effective but because it’s a point of political difference → Read More
No one is buying the Minerals Council's coal 'slime'
Almost everyone in the sector knows coal power is dying, except mining's peak body. → Read More