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The power switch that will send energy bills surging by up to $600 a year

NSW customers can expect rises between $440 and $594 annually.

Newcastle Herald

Power bills to surge by nearly 25pct for thousands

Customers on the default electricity market offer will be slugged with massive price rises due to high wholesale energy costs.

AAP

Opposition warns Liddell shutdown will trigger energy crisis

Ted O'Brien warns the National Energy Market is not ready for the loss of Liddell power station

Newcastle Herald

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Industrial heavyweights call for urgent action on cutting Australia’s emissions

In joint statement companies say they are ‘ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them

The Guardian - AU

Speaker calls out ‘disgusting’ behaviour by Coalition MPs that left parliament worker hurt

Politicians apologise for pushing past attendant to avoid a vote as she tried to lock a door

The Guardian - AU

Liberal MPs apologise for injuring attendant in rush to avoid vote, after being reprimanded

Speaker of the House Milton Dick reads the riot act to a group of Coalition MPs, saying he was "disgusted" after they injured a female parliamentary attendant while trying to avoid a vote on Tuesday afternoon.

ABC News

Australia steps toward making big polluters reduce emissions

The Australian government has taken a major step toward implementing a key climate policy that would force chief greenhouse gas polluters to reduce emissions

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David Pocock under pressure to block Labor’s safeguard mechanism bill after fossil fuel poll

With 62% of Canberrans backing a ban on new coal and gas projects, Labor faces tough task convincing ACT senator

The Guardian - AU

Snowy Hydro: drilling confirmed halted on part of multibillion-dollar project after tunnel collapse

Labor says the latest setback in the pumped hydro scheme, which had already been delayed to 2027, was inherited from the previous government

The Guardian - AU

Greens hold firm on demand for two-year power bill freeze ahead of vote on coal and gas price caps

The Greens, whose support is needed to pass a proposed price cap on gas and coal, are holding firm on their demand for a two-year freeze on energy bill prices, which they say will save households $750 and be paid for by fossil fuel companies.

ABC News

Labor takes aim at gas industry over trying to preserve ‘big profits’ during Ukraine war

In defence of energy price caps, minister Chris Bowen says Australians should pay a fair cost for gas extracted in Australia rather than a ‘wartime price’

The Guardian - AU

Greens to oppose price cap compo plans

The Greens will have the balance of power in the Senate as parliament is recalled to pass the federal government's energy bill relief measures.

AAP

Anthony Albanese urges national cabinet to endorse unprecedented intervention to cap coal and gas prices

As the year's end draws near, the prime minister convenes national cabinet, asking it to impose a price cap on coal and gas, fearing worse price spikes in 2023.

ABC News

Coalition MP’s ‘grassroots’ nuclear power survey linked to consulting firm

Exclusive: Ted O’Brien’s Time to Talk Nuclear website was registered by business that helps US reactor company

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Govt defends big road and rail spending

The federal government hopes a near-$10 billion infrastructure investment won't do more to drive inflation as it prepares for October 25's budget.

The Guardian - AU

Labor urged to axe $1.9bn in ‘zombie’ fossil fuel subsidies promised by the Coalition

Exclusive: Morrison government announced support for coal and gas projects in ‘gas-fired recovery’ but didn’t formalise contracts, PBO analysis reveals

Newcastle Herald

Letters: Why didn't the Coalition help the Port of Newcastle sooner

Newcastle Herald readers have their say

Newcastle Herald

Fight to save $100 million port hydrogen funding

The federal Opposition is ramping up pressure on the government to guarantee that it will honour a commitment to invest $100 million help create a hydrogen hub at the Port of Newcastle.

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Climate bill passes lower house as Liberal MP defects

A bill enshrining an emissions reduction target of 43 per cent into law passed the House of Representatives. The government’s Climate Change Bill passed

The Guardian - AU

Peter Dutton has reached into the weeds of the climate wars and pulled out nuclear energy. It’s beyond ludicrous

The Coalition could’ve progressed a domestic industry in its nine years in power, but it didn’t

ABC News

Former carbon pricing mastermind Greg Combet backs proposed fix for Australia's energy crisis

Former federal climate change minister backs proposed fix for crisis-riddled national electricity market, calling for ideology to be taken out of debate.

The Independent UK

Australian data: Greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2021

Australia’s new government has blamed the previous administration’s inaction for an increase in the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions last year

The Guardian - AU

David Littleproud’s coal case study to defend Coalition energy policy is something of a credibility stretch

Even if Millmerran power station’s carbon capture plan succeeds, it will only eliminate 2.1% of emissions. Plus: nuclear still costlier than renewables

Newcastle Herald

'Missing piece of the puzzle': Why coal-fired power stations are needed 'back online'

Operators have to get coal-fired power stations going again to help put downward pressure on soaring energy prices, Resources Minister Madeleine King says.

ABC News

Short-term fix to gas crisis is to bring coal plants online, Resources Minister Madeleine King says

New Resources Minister Madeleine King says restoring ageing coal plants that went offline due to unexpected outages would provide quick relief to the east coast gas crisis.

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