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Madeline Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University

Historic new deal puts emissions reduction at the heart of Australia's energy sector

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Australia’s energy ministers on Friday voted to make emissions reduction a key national energy goal, in a major step forward in the clean energy transition.

Federal, state and territory energy ministers agreed to include emissions in what’s known as the “national energy objectives”. The objectives guide rule-making and other decisions concerning electricity, retail energy and gas.

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