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Is Labor’s energy price relief plan really a ‘Soviet-style policy’ or an ‘Armageddon’ moment?

With the bill now passed into law, here’s what’s at stake, what is next, and the political backstory of the Australia’s energy price boom

The Guardian - AU

Gas industry attempts to block price caps on fossil fuels shrugged off by Australian government

Crossbenchers express surprise at lack of direct lobbying from resource companies who may have been blindsided by ‘reasonable pricing’ test

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Details emerge of shocking Queensland police ambush; Violet Coco granted bail; and Ardern’s hot mic

Tributes flow from state and federal leaders after two police officers and a civilian die in shooting

The Guardian - AU

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Greens hold firm on demand for two-year power bill freeze ahead of vote on coal and gas price caps

The Greens, whose support is needed to pass a proposed price cap on gas and coal, are holding firm on their demand for a two-year freeze on energy bill prices, which they say will save households $750 and be paid for by fossil fuel companies.

ABC News

Top tech brains to shape robotics strategy

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic has set up a national robotics strategy committee to advise on boosting automation technologies across the economy.

AAP

Albanese confident Queensland and NSW premiers will back plan to cut power prices

PM tells business leaders his government is ‘working around the clock to deliver a solution’ and flags collaboration with states

The Guardian - AU

Deal to cut energy costs closer, says PM

The federal government is edging nearer to a plan to ease energy costs, with the prime minister confident a deal can be struck.

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Push to boost Australian manufacturing

Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic will begin the push to create a $15 billion fund to bring manufacturing jobs back onshore.

AAP

'Sobering reading': Australia to experience an increase in extreme weather events

The State of the Climate report released every two years, has found changes to weather and climate extremes are happening at an increased pace across Australia.

Newcastle Herald

Australia faces worsening extreme weather events latest BoM and CSIRO climate report finds

The continent is now 1.47C hotter than it was in 1910 and sea levels around the coastline are rising at an accelerating rate

The Guardian - AU

You think the weather is bad now, science says it's going to get worse

The State of the Climate report released every two years, has found changes to weather and climate extremes are happening at an increased pace across Australia.

The Canberra Times

CSIRO chief’s exit offers Labor rare opportunity to alter direction of Australia’s science agency

New chief executive will have their work cut out for them after what some scientists call ‘painful’ change under Larry Marshall

The Guardian - AU

Science agency boss to stand down in June

Long-serving CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall will call it quits in June 2023 after taking a leading role through the COVID-19 pandemic.

AAP

Afternoon Update: federal government condemns gas ‘greed’; hundreds evacuated in NSW; Twitter exodus

Ed Husic says industry is ‘tone deaf’ to appeals on energy prices. And Hillsong founder Brian Houston breaks silence

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‘Glut of greed’: industry minister condemns Australian gas industry’s pursuit of higher prices

Ed Husic says industry is ‘completely tone deaf’ to appeals on prices and he’s ‘considering a wide range of interventions’

ABC News

Ed Husic says looming gas price rises caused by 'glut of greed', not supply shortages

Federal Industry Minister Ed Husic has launched a blistering attack on gas companies, accusing them of failing to take a price crisis seriously.

The Canberra Times

Questacon budget boost to exceed fossil fuel funding gap

$10 million delivered over two years more than covers the loss of Shell in December and Inpex in June next year, as the contracts come to an end.

ABC News

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Labor's budget is a 'missed opportunity' to help Australians in time of need

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton dubs Labor's first budget a failure filled with broken promises in tackling the cost-of-living crisis.

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CSIRO accused of failing to disclose GISERA gas industry links in fracking information sheets

The information sheets included a recently-deleted statement that methane "may play a role" in climate change, which independent Senator David Pocock says is "straight out of the fossil fuel industry misinformation guide".

The Guardian - AU

CSIRO aims to ‘accelerate commercialism’ in new strategy as staff decry scientific diversion

Exclusive: government body denies ‘business-over-science’ approach but failed to inform federal minister of change in focus

AAP

CSIRO upgrades quantum tech outlook to $6b

The national science agency has upgraded the growth outlook for quantum technology and expects Australia to grab a bit of the global sector.

The Guardian - AU

Science minister warns CSIRO against ‘renting out’ its brand to giant gas companies

Ed Husic says science agency should focus efforts elsewhere after ‘very major’ gas company asked it to support bid for net zero emissions

AAP

Australia eyes 'front of the quantum pack'

Federal Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic is "utterly obsessed" with what Australia can do as a global leader in quantum computing.

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Government must find a way to force gas prices down – but how?

Senior ministers this week have dramatically raised the stakes in the Albanese government’s face-off with gas producers, amid escalating energy prices and dire warnings of worse to come. The question now is: how does the government follow through with effective action to match the rhetoric?

The New Daily

Minister takes angry swipe at gas companies as pressure builds for action

A minister has joined calls for curbs on 'insane' power prices by angrily comparing gas companies to a swam of locusts.

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