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

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

$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.

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

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".

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

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

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

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

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?

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