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Australians will be paying the price of our governments’ great leap forward in transmission line rollouts and renewables for generations to come, writes Peter Hunt.

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue secured hundreds of millions of dollars in government commitments, incentives and subsidies for clean-energy projects, including ventures since abandoned, underscoring the challenge facing the Albanese government in its efforts to fast-track the renewable energy transition.

Australia’s long-held ambitions to tap its abundant renewable resources and vast uninhabited landmass to become a global green hydrogen leader are fast unraveling.

The Productivity Commission has given the government plenty of flexibility for developing its energy policies and emissions reductions targets over the next decade.

August 1, 2025  The Future of Green Hydrogen Is Out of Reach A number of hurdles prevent widespread adoption of this potentially game-changing technology.By: Ronan Wordsworth A recent Reuters investigation shed some

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If coal is cheaper, why does the CSIRO proclaim “renewables remain the lowest-cost new-build electricity generation technology”?

It’s puzzling that Ross Garnaut is still worshipped as some sort of energy policy oracle, especially after championing ‘green hydrogen’.

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”.

Javier Milei promised the most fascinating liberal economic experiment the world has seen in a long time.