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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.

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Stanwell exits Gladstone green hydrogen project

Queensland’s largest green hydrogen project is on the scrap heap after state government-owned Stanwell Corporation announced its withdrawal from the international consortium developing the estimated $12.5 billion production plant and pipeline.

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Net zero is Australia’s biggest self-imposed economic burden

When I began writing about economics at The Australian more than a decade ago, these pages were filled with optimism: the resource boom was in full swing, the phrase “miracle economy” still prevalent. If we had a problem it was a “two-speed” economy, and an Australian dollar that was almost as valuable as the greenback.

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