Power Games: Tony Abbott Finally Cleans Up With Australia’s New Energy Policy
The Coalition’s new energy plan fails on every dimension: energy, environment and politics, writes Ben…More
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Victoria Aims For 40 Per Cent Renewables By 2025
The Victorian Labor Government has committed to legislate a 25 per cent renewable electricity target…More
ACT Surges Ahead With Renewables Plan As Abbott Undermines Federal Scheme
The Australian Capital Territory government has launched its second wind farm ‘reverse auction’, as Environment…More
Requiem For The RET
The Abbott government has already pulled off its ugly coup de grace on renewable energy,…More
Burning Native Forest Is No Win For The Environment
Right across the country a shift is happening. Communities are ditching the old, destructive, polluting…More
Federal Labor To Vote Against Allowing State And Territory Renewable Energy Targets
The federal Labor Party is today refusing to support an amendment to the Renewable Energy…More
RET Deal: Wood Waste Now The Burning Issue
A deal on the Renewable Energy Target could come within weeks after the federal government…More
States' Renewed Renewables Push Undermined By RET Uncertainty
State Labor governments tired of federal efforts to reduce the RET are looking for new…More
Green Is Not Good: How Abbott Sabotaged The Clean Energy Sector
In 2012, Michael Ignatieff lamented that “the liberal task – deliberation, compromise, respecting rights and…More
Though It Continues To Triumph, The Power Of Big Business Remains Brittle
Every now and then, politics distills a moment of clarity. Yesterday was one of them.…More