News Archives - Page 2 of 25

04 . 06 . 2025

Climate change spend surges to $9bn a year

Federal government spending on climate change and net-zero policies have reached $9bn a year, up from $600m just a decade earlier.

30 . 05 . 2025

Capital expenditure crash: it’s a distress signal from companies, Jim Chalmers warned

Jim Chalmers’ hopes of a recovery in the business sector have been dealt a blow after private investment recorded its biggest annual contraction since 2020, in a shock to economists.

28 . 05 . 2025

“We have a duty:” Hockey joins Woodside call for more gas, as Queensland vows to extend coal

Australia must cut the “red and green tape” around gas projects and allow more exploratory drilling to secure the nation’s energy and exports, a conference has been told, despite an election result endorsing a move to renewable energy.

27 . 05 . 2025

Power bills jump up to 9 per cent amid concern over green transition

Electricity prices are set to rise by between 1-9pc, the energy regulator says, with NSW worst hit. Mark Butler is adamant there will be no taxpayer-funded bailout for the collapsed private hospitals operator owned by an overseas private equity firm.

26 . 05 . 2025

AEP report details gas market intervention’s effect on investment, calls for policy reset

The Albanese government’s intervention in the gas market in 2022 is directly responsible for Australia’s appeal for investment falling substantially in recent years, a new report says.

25 . 05 . 2025

WA Mines Minister tight-lipped on North West Shelf extension as Federal decision looms but ‘backs more gas’

WA Mines and Petroleum Minister David Michael has refused to weigh in on the looming decision for the massive North West Shelf extension plan, but says the State Government backs “having more gas”.

24 . 05 . 2025

Detonating the H-Bomb

The green hydrogen fiasco exposes the fatal flaws in Australia's Net-Zero-2050 assumptions

23 . 05 . 2025

Snowy Hydro workers threaten second 24-hour strike

The trouble-plagued government-owned $12bn hydro project will grind to a halt again next week.

16 . 05 . 2025

First Gladstone and now Fortescue has mothballed a newly-opened plant in Delaware

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has shut down another newly opened manufacturing plant – this time in the US, as part of its broader retreat from green hydrogen.