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Australia will continue to supply coal and gas to the world, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and 51% of people who took part in a poll (a third of whom were Coalition voters) think Scott Morrison should resign from Parliament. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers: please note this article…

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Taxes out, subsidies in: Australia and the US are passing major climate bills – without taxing carbon

At last, there’s action on climate change. The United States recently passed its largest climate bill ever. And Australia is set to usher a 43% emissions target into law this week, although the Greens will try to amend the bill so the climate impacts of new gas and coal projects…

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‘I have gone right off them’: can Truss keep the Tories’ fragile coalition together?

Cost of living crisis poses a threat to seats the Conservatives won from Labour in 2019

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Western Australia has the cheapest energy in the OECD, as prices go sky high in eastern states

The costs of energy have dramatically jumped across Australia as war and shortages make themselves felt globally but WA has been spared the shock

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Hunter industry needs energy security in a hurry

The Hunter's peak business group has warned the productivity of region's industrial power users will be threatened unless more baseload generation comes on line in the near future.

Newcastle Herald

Dutton withdraws Albanese ‘liar’ allegation in question time – as it happened

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Searching for inflation-busters

What are good investments in a period of high inflation?

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Welfare boost for 4.7m

In the biggest indexation rise for 30 years, 4.7 million Australians on welfare payments will receive more money, plus the Coalition (and Liberal Leader Peter Dutton) are extremely unpopular.

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Ex-coal worker says DNA test will prove he is long-lost son of Malaysian prince

Keith Williams, 71, believes he is the illegitimate first-born son of the 33rd Sultan of Perak but found the link too late to meet him

Daily Mirror

Brian Burke, Kerry Stokes, Kevin Reynolds among major players in race to unlock Western Australia's green power future

Deep storage is considered the Holy Grail of efforts to turn the electricity grid green — and a roll call of interesting characters is on the trail.

ABC News

Dartbrook coal mine sale stalls, current owners lobby shareholders to help pay $100m debt

The mothballed Dartbrook coal mine in the Hunter Valley had three sale bids, but all options have since hit snags.

ABC News

How this Liverpool Plains community rallied to defeat Shenhua Watermark open-cut coal mine

When a Chinese mining company was approved to rip a 35-square-kilometre open pit in this tiny community, the residents were having none of it.

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Why there are more important things than free childcare

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Why defusing 'carbon bombs' offers a promising new agenda for tackling climate change

A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause over a gigatonne of CO₂ emissions during its lifetime. That’s a billion tonnes – more than twice the UK’s annual emissions from a single project.

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Coal pilferage scam | TMC’s Abhishek dares Amit Shah to arrest him after ED interrogation

The TMC national general secretary alleged that the country’s Home Minister has only one job – ‘indulge in horse trading of MLAs’

The Hindu

Rains wash out Singareni plans to go beyond 70 MT mining

Hopes pinned on production in new mines to reach target

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Airline meltdowns are the canary in the coal mine

For would-be vacationers, this has been the summer of our discontent. In the wake of the pandemic, severe staffing shortages have triggered a crush of disruption: Flight cancellations abound while check-in lines snake out the terminal door. Travelers wonder when the chaos will abate.

Newcastle Herald

Dartbrook owner enters joint venture agreement in the mine, overlooking Tinkler take-over bid

A proposed 50:50 joint venture for operation of the Dartbrook mine

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AAP

China diplomacy key to green steel bonanza

Energy-hungry industries get little advantage from Australia being richly endowed with gas and coal, but mining and steelmaking could win in a net-zero economy.

France 24

Fighting intensifies in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict

In tonight's edition: Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia intensifies further, as both federal forces and Tigrayan rebels accuse each other of opening up new fronts. Also, in South Africa, parents of the 21 young people who died in June at a tavern in the Eastern Cape are told their children…

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Good news – there's a clean energy gold rush under way. We'll need it to tackle energy price turbulence and coal's exodus

This week, the Australian Energy Market Operator warned gaps in electricity supply are likely within three years.

AAP

Transition body for coal workers proposed

The Jobs and Skills Summit has been told a transition agency for coal and gas workers would be critical to boost employment in a clean-energy economy.

The Hindu

New rail link in Jharkhand to add coal evacuation capacity up to 125 MT by March 2023: Government

Government aiming to scale up coal production target to 1.25 billion tonnes by FY25

AAP

Qld approves Carborough Downs coal project

The expansion of the Carborough coal mine in central Queensland has been approved by the state government, allowing the project to operate for another 11 years.

The Independent UK

Hawaii closes last coal-fired power plant as ban begins

The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment this week when the state’s dirtiest source of electricity burned its final pieces of fuel

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