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Opposition climate and energy spokesperson had pointed to SMRs as a solution to Australia’s energy needs, but experts raise questions over price tag

The answer is pumice stones.

This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s energy transition.

Australia’s tropical northern rivers still run wild and free. These relatively pristine areas have so far avoided extensive development. But this might not last. There are ongoing scoping studies exploring irrigating agricultural land using water from these rivers.

Tony Abbott says some warnings of extreme global warming are ‘ahistorical and utterly implausible’ and hyped by ‘the climate cult’, and 11 million pensioners, concession card holders and children can now enjoy cheaper healthcare with a $3.5 billion boost to bulk-billing with Medicare.

Right now, there’s something big spinning off the coast from Sydney – a giant rotating vortex of sea water, powerful enough to dominate the ocean currents off south-eastern Australia.

The NT government green-lit fracking based on a CSIRO report. Analysis claims it ‘systematically underestimated’ emissions.

Interest-free loans on solar panels and batteries will be offered by one major bank in a bid to make renewable energy affordable to more households.

Even as Australia braces for a summer of projected extreme heatwaves and bushfires amid the intensifying climate crisis, the fossil gas industry is gearing up for a truly enormous new fracking project in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.

Climate Analytics says onshore emissions of proposed fracking understated by up to 84% in ‘a rosy picture that simply doesn’t reflect reality’