Writing recently in the Australian, Chris Kenny, notable for being the only genuine conservative voice in support of the Voice, notes, ‘A narrow victory would reveal a nation divided and ambivalent…

Hazelwood battery charges up for first time at site of former brown coal generator in the Latrobe Valley.

Let me be blunt. The Victorian Liberal Party leader, John Pesutto, should be sacked. The following story proves it. With the Liberal Party in the wilderness across Australia, it cannot afford a...

The RMIT ABC Fact Check own goal against Dick Smith exposed not only the green-left bias and ­deceit of the national broadcaster and the so-called “fact-checking” outfit, but also the central lie at...

This last summer has been hot in south-eastern Australia. But was it the hottest ever? Summer 80 years ago was arguably as hot, if not hotter. Australia’s Environment Minister, Melissa Price…

Replacing coal-fired power stations with small nuclear reactors would cost $387 billion, Chris Bowen says, but that assumes no role for private enterprise.

When the Minister for Blackouts, Bankruptcy and Bull finally announces that, in order to save the planet, we need to grin and bear the exorbitant cost of food and energy; ration electricity in a…

With advertising plunging and sporting seasons suspended, the Foxtel CEO told staff the restructure was the only option to ride out the COVID-19 situation.

A court case this week in front of three judges of the Federal Court was a further stage in Peter Ridd’s fight for freedom of speech on climate change. The case, James Cook University v Peter Vincent...

John Howard was a conservative. He won, again and again and again. Tony Abbott was a conservative. He won a landslide. Scott Morrison dressed himself up as a conservative and won his first election…

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South Australia has been hit by a major electricity blackout with more than 20,000 households to endure a night without power after a severe heatwave buckled local poles and wires networks and...

Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has stepped up pressure on AGL Energy to move faster on cutting emissions, with its top shareholder describing it as “one of the most toxic companies on the...

The search, made public by the former president, began Monday morning and lasted until the evening. It was part of an investigation into Trump’s handling of classified information.

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Former ACTU president Sharan Burrow, who is now the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation in Brussels, is part of a new Vatican body aimed at reforming capitalism.

Plans for the world’s biggest solar tower and molten salt storage plant near Port Augusta fall through after US company failed to secure funding.

Environmental crusader Bob Brown has exposed a conspiracy of silence by the Greens and their supporters on the true cost and ­unintended consequences of ­renewable power.

CSIRO has failed to include a previous finding that “there are no studies linking climate change to fire weather” in a ‘bushfire explainer document’. A CSIRO official, who was questioned by Senator...

Back in the 1970s Norman Gunston used his brilliant ABC television show to promote his availability for a “fabulously well-paid cigarette commercial”.

An unnerved Brian Fisher is considering walking away from ­future independent economic modelling after his analysis of Labor’s climate policy led to his family home being egged when prominent clean...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has released its latest report on the state of the Great Barrier Reef. It has turned up the volume by one notch, claiming the threat to the reef has...

French company Neoen’s 300 megawatt Victorian Big Battery project near Geelong had only started initial testing before one of the Tesla Megapacks caught fire on Friday.

Great news: our prestige science body the CSIRO has told us we can abandon all those mandatory targets for more and more so-called renewable energy and save taxpayers and consumers the $13bn or so —...

Cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park is over, with the new Labor government fulfilling a long-standing election promise to ban the practice.

The Andrews Government is not telling us but it looks like they’ve lost the taxpayer some $400 million in long term power purchasing contracts. Only a year ago they claimed they’d made a $285 million…

AGL prioritises developing large batteries and pumped hydro projects to meet its transition goals and return it to profitability.

“No one could have foreseen five or 10 years ago the situation we face,” Emmanuel Macron declared in early March, as he sought to explain the shortages of personal protective equipment and respirat...

It wasn’t just the giant egos in the power project. It was economics, engineering and physics too gigantic to stack up.

A shout out to all those federal Labor types who are on their “listening” tours, trying to understand why union members and people they may romanticise as “working class” no longer show mass, blind...

Sentencing has several objectives, but when it comes to terrorism offences only one aim is appropriate: community protection. Compromising this objective for any other goal, such as rehabilitation,...

Having survived the winter chills of Poland in December, the climate change glitterati are meeting again in Bonn, Germany, this week to keep the rebranded “climate emergency” on track.

Climate change is a defining issue of our time, especially for young people who are persuaded that we are doomed unless urgent action is taken on carbon emissions. Activists, with some success, are...

Coalition analysis has found NSW wholesale electricity prices surged by 80 per cent in the first five days since the shutdown of the Liddell power plant, as energy experts warn of record high prices...

When Tony Abbott spoke out about the nation’s future in the Paris Agreement this week, a little-known Australian expert was raising the alarm on what might be a far more pressing issue for the future...

Business and consumer groups say ‘an unobtainable goal of 100% reliability’ will impose massive cost increases on users

The integrity crusading federal MP didn’t declare the donation for almost two years, an audit of her campaign financing has found.

Greek and Hawaiian islands have been ablaze recently, as has Canada, leading Australia's chief scientist to call for a rapid acceleration in the reduction of carbon emissions on Q+A.

NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia may fail to meet ambitious renewable targets in the next decade, as uncertainty over solar and wind investment threatens to derail a planned transition...

Politicians and greens have never really levelled with Australians about the extraordinary of cost of reliable wind and solar power or battery storage.

Labor’s national Right faction — which commands majority support in caucus — is divided and in disarray.

Scott Morrison’s plan to seek deeper cuts to Australia’s carbon emissions will consider more than 100 new technologies, predicts a doubling of renewable energy in the electricity grid within 10 years...

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The fixed-price contract covering the giant Snowy Hydro 2.0 expansion could need to be scrapped to get the pumped hydro project finished, according to Snowy Hydro chief executive Dennis Barnes.

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It is very difficult for a nation to devise policies that destroy its economy but Australia is succeeding splendidly. Consider, as just one example, aluminium smelting, which is now the recipient of...

Climate models predict disaster – but real world evidence shows no such thing.

Power bills for households will soar by hundreds of dollars a year from July 1, adding to soaring cost of living pressures as the regulator blamed supply challenges and volatility for the steep cost...

Former deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop has called on the Morrison government to do a deal with Labor on the National Energy Guarantee, saying business wants it.

Households will pay nearly $2 billion for rooftop solar installation subsidies this year, costing every home nearly $200 and threatening to derail Scott Morrison’s pledge to cut power bills.

One of the two judges of the Victorian Court of Appeal who ­upheld George Pell’s wrongful conviction for assaulting choirboys was appointed to the bench after stating publicly that he was not a...

Once-thriving Advance Bricks in Stawell goes to the wall, wiping out 23 jobs because it can no longer afford the power bill to fire its oven.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has declared that “dams don’t make it rain”, defending his government’s policy of refusing to increase the state’s water storage capacity as he announced more than...

Scott Morrison has highlighted flaws in the Paris Agreement and argued it endorses “massive ­increases in emissions from some of the world’s largest and growing economies”, rebuffing calls to...

When Samantha Kneeshaw realise­d there was nothing more she could do to save her house from the raging New Year’s Eve bushfire at Conjola, on the NSW south coast, she made her way to her backyard...

Champagne socialists, Bollinger bolsheviks and latte liberals. From America to Australia, Buckingham Palace to Beijing, social justice warriors who grew rich on capitalism in the 20th century are...

Victoria Police have deployed the most powerful nonlethal force available to dispel anti-lockdown protests after officers fired pepper ball rounds into crowds in Melbourne CBD on Saturday.

The Australian Energy Market Operator warned of "load shedding" amid a heatwave in SA that "we haven't seen in 80 years". "This is an all time peak," the regulator warns.