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Indigenous leader Rev Dr D Gondarra dies – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Coalition roasted over 2030 emission target backtrack

Some opposition MPs have been caught off-guard by coalition plans to drop 2030 emission reduction targets, as the prime minister hits out at the move.

AAP

Peter Dutton’s plans will breach the Paris agreement on climate – that much is clear

The Coalition’s rejection of a 43% cut in emissions by 2030 will have major ramifications for us and the world

The Guardian - AU

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Australia's leader says opposition will renege on greenhouse gas emissions target if elected

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the opposition Liberal Party will renege on the nation’s ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if it wins elections due within a year

The Independent UK

View from The Hill: Peter Dutton sets up a debate about Australia’s ambition on emission reduction targets

In his latest foray into the climate change debate, Peter Dutton has sown fresh confusion around the opposition’s policy, whether intentionally or by failing to spell out what he means.

The Conversation

CSIRO stands by nuclear power costings that contradict Coalition claims

The Coalition has attacked the GenCost report that found nuclear power plants would be at least 50% more expensive than solar and wind

The Guardian - AU

Australia bids to be battery powerhouse

The federal government is steaming ahead with its plan to foster new clean industries and has unveiled a new strategy to kickstart battery manufacturing.

AAP

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On nuclear, Coalition prefers the optimism of misleading, decade-old, unverified claims

The Coalition is a fan of quoting the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s optimism on nuclear timelines compared to the CSIRO. But do the numbers add up?

Crikey

Australia’s big electricity generators say nuclear not viable for at least a decade

AGL Energy, Alinta, EnergyAustralia and Origin Energy say they will remain focused on renewables despite Coalition support for nuclear reactors

The Guardian - AU

Dutton’s blast of radioactive rhetoric on nuclear power leaves facts in the dust

Coalition’s claim of cheap power and quickly built reactors is at odds with real world experience of other countries

The Guardian - AU

On nuclear, the media serve us up another round of climate denialism

The media needs to stop treating nonsensical claims about nuclear power from the Coalition seriously and do some basic fact-checking.

Crikey

Labor open to 'sensible' changes to fuel standards

The Albanese government will consider "good faith" suggestions for its proposed fuel efficiency standards, according to Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

AAP

Dutton’s nuclear dream promises delays, cost blowouts and government debt

So long, small modular reactors — you’ve been ditched by the Coalition in favour of old-fashioned nukes and their staggeringly expensive electricity.

Crikey

Dutton’s nuclear push a ‘dumb idea’ and decades too late

‘It doesn’t make economic sense. It doesn’t make energy sense. It doesn’t make political sense.’

Crikey

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The Guardian - AU

Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest labels Coalition push for nuclear energy ‘bulldust’ and a ‘new lie’

Mining billionaire says cost of nuclear will be four to five times that of renewables and opposition’s policy is ‘an excuse for doing nothing’

Crikey

The Coalition is hoodwinking Australia about nuclear energy

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is expected to make rescinding the nuclear power prohibition a 2025 election policy. One expert wonders whether he can do basic sums.

The Guardian - AU

Ted O’Brien’s fact-free nuclear cheerleading is cover for the same old climate vandalism

In huffing and puffing over renewables while denying the measurable costs of nuclear generation, the Coalition is digging in with the politics of relentless opportunism

The Guardian - AU

Pro-nuclear MP says Labor ‘weaponising’ CSIRO report showing renewables are cheapest

Shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien says report examines costs through an investment lens rather than a consumer lens, but Chris Bowen says nuclear crusade not viable

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Crikey

Coalition delivers the same old tired nuclear talking points at COP28

With a heavy sigh, Crikey once again delves into the most pointless ritual in Australian public policy — the nuclear energy ‘debate’.

The Guardian - AU

Coalition opposes Australia tripling renewable energy, backs nuclear power pledge at Cop28

Ted O’Brien declares global climate summit ‘the nuclear Cop’ despite only 11% of nations backing the pledge

The Guardian - AU

Coalition to have sizeable contingent at Cop28 despite Peter Dutton jibe at climate change minister’s attendance

Frontbenchers Paul Fletcher and Bridget McKenzie part of group of nine MPs who will be in Dubai funded by Coalition for Conservation and Environmental Leadership Australia

The Guardian - AU

Why is the Gabba rebuild plan so controversial and what’s next in the Brisbane Olympics brawl?

A $2.7bn new stadium is at the heart of the state’s 2032 Games strategy but mayor Adrian Schrinner’s withdrawal of support has increased political pressure

The Guardian - AU

Dutton urges PM to put preventive detention on national cabinet agenda – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Chris Bowen’s bold and sudden movement on climate sent the Coalition clutching at its pearls

The existential battle against global heating requires connecting science, politics and community life, often much harder than it looks

The Guardian - AU

Industry and states welcome Albanese government’s plan to jump-start stalled renewables investment

Albanese government’s expansion of investment scheme is designed to attract financial investment in new wind and solar farms

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