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Santos’ $3.6 billion Narrabri gas development will go ahead after a tribunal ruled the project’s importance to the nation’s energy reliability outweighed potential environmental and cultural heritage concerns.

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has shut down another newly opened manufacturing plant – this time in the US, as part of its broader retreat from green hydrogen.

Australia’s clean hydrogen ambitions have been dealt another blow with an ambitious $15bn green hydrogen project in the Northern Territory put on ice, underlining the challenges attracting financing and willing buyers to the renewable energy source.

There is one thing that you can say for Peter Beattie: He knows when something is stuffed up, writes Matt Canavan

A word scarcely heard in the major parties’ election policies is now emerging as the defining challenge for the next term of Parliament: productivity.

Business leaders have blasted Jim Chalmers’s call for a six-year extension to fixing Australia’s productivity levels, with Chris Corrigan saying the Treasurer had a ‘complete inverse of a plan for productivity’.

The early moments of Woodside Energy’s AGM have been marred by protests, with activists interrupting chief executive Meg O’Neill several times in its opening 20 minutes.

Australia’s Minerals Council denies it crossed the line in a hard-fought election campaign where the result has put pressure on CEO Tania Constable for her backing of the Coalition.

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart says pressure from left wing media outlets successfully scared the centre-right Liberal Party away from adopting Trump-style policies during the election.

Gina Rinehart has released a statement blaming “the left media” for the Liberal party’s election loss over the weekend and urging them to stick with Donald Trump-like policies.

Top Liberal Party donors are pulling their financial support for the party, blaming the combination of a disorganised election campaign and Peter Dutton’s Labor-lite policy platform, saying without early wholesale changes they won’t be giving in three years’ time.

The country’s richest woman has weighed in on the federal election, comparing Australians unfavourably to Americans.