Energy pathway limited to most costly, least reliable technologies and squanders nation’s wealth
The best of days and the worst of days in South Australia tell the Dickensian tale of this nation’s energy transition.
The best of days and the worst of days in South Australia tell the Dickensian tale of this nation’s energy transition.
We have a national energy crisis that is the direct result of federal and state government policies, implemented by Labor and Coalition administrations across a long period, motivated by the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Numerous serious workplace health and safety issues at a workers camp for the $1bn Kidston Pumped Hydro Project, including filthy, mouldy rooms, putrid food, and gastro outbreaks, have prompted workers to down tools.
Australia’s red meat industry is demanding the Albanese government intervene to head off “ideological” manipulation of official dietary guidelines to curtail meat consumption on climate grounds, as a top food scientist is “purged” from a key role for not being sufficiently activist.
At the 2025 Bush Summit in Ballarat, Anthony Albanese defended his government’s increasingly radical plans to decarbonise the Australian economy by invoking the science.
Senate officials have rejected Climate Minister’s secrecy claims over withheld briefing documents as pressure mounts for transparency on Australia’s net-zero challenges.
New research showing Australia’s 2030 climate targets could cost up to $22.3bn monthly as party divisions deepen.
In a message to constituents, the Coalition’s communications spokeswoman Melissa McIntosh says net zero is “destroying people’s living standards” and “hurting families”.
It cost Atlassian shareholders about $5.7m last year to fly climate evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes around the world on his own private aircraft. Poor bugger is even losing money on the deal.
One of Australia’s largest cattle producers and landowners, Gina Rinehart, has made the opening of a new accommodation facility at Marcus Oldham College in Geelong possible.
