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McDonald Jones stadium concert plan isn't music to everyone's ears

The Matildas always draw good crowds when they play in Newcastle but they won't play here on a damaged playing surface.

Newcastle Herald · Jul 8, 2022

Australia's energy transformation is ramping up, but there are major challenges ahead

The Labor government has a plan to increase the share of renewable energy in the grid to 82 per cent by 2030, but many experts and investors say reaching that will not be possible without a major upgrade of the poles and wires that transport that power around the grid.

ABC News · Jul 5, 2022

AEMO's renewable energy roadmap ignores community stalemate, expert says

Amid delays caused by community resistance to major infrastructure projects, an energy policy expert says AEMO's plan to complete five projects in the next decade is a pipedream.

ABC News · Jul 1, 2022

Paying coal and gas plants to supply back-up energy a ‘retrograde step’, Clean Energy Council says

‘It’s the wrong policy debate at the wrong time,’ industry says of capacity mechanism

The Guardian - AU · Jun 27, 2022

Does Australia need Tasmania to become a multi-billion-dollar 'Battery of the Nation'?

As coal-fired power stations close down, there is a push for the renewables-rich state of Tasmania to become the "Battery of the Nation". The problem is, no one knows who will foot the multi-billion-dollar bill.

ABC News · Jun 27, 2022

Senior ministers to retire before Victoria’s election – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Jun 22, 2022

UK inflation has hit a 40-year high. Here's what that means for Australia

Inflation is soaring to new highs in major global economies and Australia is not immune.

ABC News · Jun 22, 2022

Energy market operator to investigate breakdown that triggered suspension and energy crisis

Aemo says it ‘wants to understand comprehensively the lessons learned’, with trading to resume at 4am on Thursday

The Guardian - AU · Jun 22, 2022

Australian Energy Market Operator to end its intervention in east coast market

An unprecedented intervention in Australia's east coast energy market will be gradually removed over the next day, with authorities increasingly confident in the supply of wholesale electricity.

ABC News · Jun 22, 2022

The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It's time the grid returned to public hands

A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the national electricity market.

The Conversation · Jun 21, 2022