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Latest Issues

The Great Energy Gamble

From billion-dollar battery subsidies and COP spending to transmission lines carving through regional communities, Aidan Morrison, Chris Uhlmann and Ben Beattie unpack the forces reshaping Australia’s energy future.

This wide-ranging disc...

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The Hidden Cost of Australia’s Renewable Push: Connecting Nothing and Paying Big

We've got massive renewable projects that face delays, ballooning costs, and land clashes, all while vital gas reserves are ignored or underutilized. The truth?

Our policies are patching up old mistakes with more bad decisions — from unde...

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Energy Shock Meets Policy Confusion

The Australian Energy Producers conference in South Australia last week came as the world grapples with its biggest energy shock in decades, while at home the oil and gas industry is being cast as both saviour and cash cow. In the lead-up t...

a month ago
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The Return of Energy Realism

As my mates and I finally got our licences towards the end of the 1970s there seemed to be an unwritten rule for all teenagers: you could drive Mum’s car but not Dad’s.

In the shadow of the 1973 oil shock, the mums’ cars had one thing in c...

a month ago
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The Age of Energy Anxiety

It was another rhetorical flourish full of the passionate intensity only a mind untroubled by doubt can muster.

At a press conference in Parliament House on April 13, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen was asked whether the glo...

2 months ago
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