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Australia’s renewable energy transition is the biggest driver of greenhouse emissions cuts.

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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EnergyAustralia will close its Yallourn coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley in 2028.

Record clean energy surge set to break Australia’s coal reliance

The threat of blackouts as more coal-fired power stations shut has been downgraded after a record year of investment in renewables and storage.

  • Nick Toscano
Matt Kean, the former Liberal NSW treasurer now serving as chair of the Climate Change Authority.

How do you decarbonise an economy? Line by line, says Matt Kean

The Liberal Party true believer finds himself at the centre of one of the Albanese Labor government’s most confounding policy challenges.

  • Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
People crossing a Sydney CBD street in the rain on Thursday.

August to bring more rain and snow, but for farmers it’s ‘storm Lotto’

The heavy rain stretching along the east coast is a harbinger of a wetter-than-average August and start to spring.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

In the current climate, the Coalition looks cooked

After losing government in 2022, and then suffering further big losses at this year’s election, the Coalition cannot seem to grasp a very obvious problem.

  • Peter Hartcher
The Coalition went to the last election proposing to build seven state-owned nuclear power plants across the country.

Australia’s green power switch may cost more than first thought: CSIRO

While renewables remain the cheapest, the cost to develop technologies not previously used in Australia will add to the price of going green.

  • Nick Toscano
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full bench of the NSW Court of Appeal invalidates the permission for Indonesian company MACH Energy to extend the Mount Pleasant coal mine near Muswellbrook for another 22 years after its current approval expires in 2026.

Court overturns massive coal mine approval on climate grounds

The NSW Court of Appeal found the planning authority must consider climate change impacts even if the coal is being exported to burn overseas.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
Two humpback whales breaching off near Manly earlier this week.

Whale watchers advised to start early as climate change hastens migration

As ocean temperatures rise, whales are setting off earlier on their arduous breeding migrations along the east coast.

  • Mike Foley
Frayzel Uale is one of more than 5000 Tuvaluans who have entered a ballot for one of 280 permanent residency visas.

Four in five Tuvaluans apply to move to Australia. Frayzel is among them

More than 8000 Tuvaluans have applied for 280 permanent residency visas for Australia, while last year 56,000 people from other Pacific countries applied for 3000 places.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
Chris Bowen attended last year’s climate talks in Baku, but has yet to secure Australia’s hosting rights.

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