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- Climate crisis
As Coalition battles, government says it’s on track for climate cuts
Australia’s national greenhouse emissions fell 1.4 per cent in the year to March 2025 and are sitting at 28 per cent below 2005 levels.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Australians have their say on new climate targets as Coalition prepares for another brawl on net zero
A more ambitious 2035 emissions-reduction target gets support from a range of Australians, even from Coalition voters.
- James Massola and Paul Sakkal
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- Political leadership
100 days in, how does PM measure up? Voters are harder judges second time around
First-term governments are granted some leeway, but then the electorate expects life to improve.
- Sean Kelly
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- Political leadership
Go big on climate plans, Labor MPs tell Albanese, as net zero fight rages
The MPs demanded ambition as leading economist Ross Garnaut said Australia’s renewable energy transition was “sick”.
- Nick O'Malley, Paul Sakkal and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Commonwealth not liable for ravages of climate change in Torres Strait
A Federal Court judge has found that science was ignored and the threat of climate change is real, but that the Commonwealth is not legally responsible for the plight of islanders facing an existential threat.
- Nick O'Malley
Albanese government faces backlash for failing to lock in climate talks
Despite years of effort and the support of its UN peers, Australia has been unable to convince Turkey to pull out of the race to host global climate talks.
- Nick O'Malley
Affordable fuel, no shortages: Bowen’s domestic reservation threat for gas industry
Peter Dutton shocked the industry by promising a domestic reservation scheme on massive LNG exporters. The Albanese government might deliver on his threat.
- Mike Foley
NSW could start getting a better deal on power prices, but not in time to stop July 1 pain
Victorians have copped less electricity price pain than people in other states. There’s now a plan to take those lessons to other states.
- Mike Foley
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- Electric vehicles
End of tax breaks for hybrid vehicles drives row over future of EVs
A fringe benefits tax exemption on sales of some hybrid electric vehicles ran out on March 31. Since then, sales have plummeted.
- Mike Foley
Old king coal is spluttering as power plants age out of usefulness
Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of electricity, but the owners of coal plants are increasingly unlikely to spend money to make them reliable.
- Mike Foley