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Turbine construction slump: Labor’s energy target all miss and wind
Construction of new wind farms for the national electricity grid, which are crucial to Anthony Albanese’s clean-energy ambitions, came to a halt in the first half of this year, as the godfather of Labor’s climate policies warns the government will miss its 82 per cent renewables target by “a big margin”.

Why Javier Milei is today’s most exciting politician
Javier Milei promised the most fascinating liberal economic experiment the world has seen in a long time.

‘Cowards’: Pauline Hanson’s push to flush out Coalition over Net Zero
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson will move an urgency motion calling for an end to net zero, declaring that any Coalition Senator who abstains from the vote should be labelled a “coward”.

WA Liberal Party State Council supports call to abandon net zero, reduce Welcome to Country ceremonies
The WA Liberal Party has supported a motion to abandon a target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, putting added pressure on Australian Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to drop the policy for the federal party.

China provides reality check for Forrest’s green iron dream
A domestic green iron industry might mean Australia has to pour in more public funds than the Chinese government, an impossible feat.

BP Plans to Exit $36 Billion Australian Green Hydrogen Hub
After years of stock under performance and departure of the plan’s architect, BP has refined its strategy to focus more squarely on profits than green goals.

BP ditches $54b Pilbara hydrogen project
BP has abandoned plans to invest in a huge green hydrogen project in Western Australia, adding to the companies walking away from the clean fuel that was once regarded as a big export opportunity for the country.

‘Climate virtue-signalling’: Labor continues destroying farm land in ‘mad’ renewable push
Sky News host Peta Credlin discusses Labor’s push to build 90 wind turbines the size of Sydney’s Barangaroo Towers in a New South Wales town.

‘You guys are drip-feeding us’: Farmers clash with Net Zero execs
Locals in a small NSW town overwhelmingly rejected a plan to build 90 wind turbines, each roughly the size of Sydney’s tallest building, and they didn’t hold back in a meeting with green energy executives.

Once upon a time in the green energy transition
The world once cheered Germany’s green fairytale, which had a title that evoked a brisk, healthy walk in the woods: Energiewende.

BlueFloat pulls plug on Victorian offshore wind project after failing to find buyer
Offshore wind developer BlueFloat Energy has abandoned plans for one of Victoria’s most advanced offshore wind projects after failing to secure a buyer, dealing a fresh blow to the state’s ambitious clean-energy transition.

Gas is good, like it or not: WA Labor leader
West Australian Premier Roger Cook says Australia’s gas industry should get more credit for helping high-emitting trading partners wean themselves off, coal and business and governments need to fight harder to make that case with the public.