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Policy debates don’t change gradually. They change suddenly. There has been a sudden change in Australia in public attitudes to energy policy. Anyone who has studied Australia’s energy production and consumption has realised that, if we continue on our current path of eliminating all fossil fuels and rejecting the option of nuclear power, we will be on a road to ruin.

Businesses that produce groceries are being smashed by soaring gas bills that are making it harder and harder to stay afloat.

Blackout looms unless renewables firmed. Households face being plunged into darkness – while paying even more for power – without action on Australia’s gas shortage.

Sky News Australia reveals the true cost of the race to renewable energy in an exclusive investigation by political contributor Chris Uhlmann.

The Environmental Defenders Office and the consultants they used to prepare the heavily criticised evidence at the centre of their failed legal challenge against oil and gas producer Santos are set to be referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is celebrating seven decades of operations, marking the day Lang and Hope Hancock founded the company.

Gina Rinehart has stepped up her calls for Australia to cut regulation and taxes while also borrowing from US president-elect Donald Trump with the pro-oil slogan ‘Drill Baby Drill’.

As Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart has few qualms about giving out advice to the country’s leaders – and the odd museum curator. But Rinehart, who was in South Florida to soak up the vibes at Donald Trump’s victory party, has returned to Australia with a spring in her step, even more buoyed by the immense wisdom shown by about 74 million Americans earlier this month.

Senex Energy’s $1bn Atlas project, one Australia’s first large-scale gas developments to come online in years, will deliver its first supplies to the market within a week – as joint owner Gina Rinehart said the project’s delays were indicative of Labor’s attempt to kill Australia’s resource sector.

First gas is set to flow from Senex Energy’s $1 billion Atlas natural gas field expansion following the official opening (Sunday 24 November 2024) of the Surat Basin facility in Queensland.