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Senate officials have rejected Climate Minister’s secrecy claims over withheld briefing documents as pressure mounts for transparency on Australia’s net-zero challenges.

In a message to constituents, the Coalition’s communications spokeswoman Melissa McIntosh says net zero is “destroying people’s living standards” and “hurting families”.

The Federal Government’s new environmental laws could kill off a WA critical minerals project lauded by Donald Trump this week during his historic meeting with Anthony Albanese.

It cost Atlassian shareholders about $5.7m last year to fly climate evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes around the world on his own private aircraft. Poor bugger is even losing money on the deal.

The Crisafulli Government is a step closer to delivering Queensland’s first new gas-fired power station in more than a decade with an agreement signed to provide locally produced gas to the facility.

Tensions are boiling between resources powerhouses Woodside and Fortescue in Western Australia’s latest climate clash.

TAXPAYERS will fund Swiss mining giant Glencore to the tune of $600 million over three years to save its ailing copper facilities and potentially hundreds of jobs.

Fortescue will be a big customer for zero-emissions mining equipment from China, having learnt the lesson that developed nations cannot compete with China on manufacturing.

German energy giant RWE has scrapped plans to develop a major offshore wind farm in Victoria, delivering a fresh setback to the state’s already fragile energy transition.

Green energy company Fortescue is expected to lay off hundreds of workers in the UK and Australia as it downsizes the company.

Woodside Energy will vigorously defend two Federal Court challenges to its North West Shelf extension, as environmental groups question the government’s approval process.

Credlin notes business claim that heavy industry would be driven offshore due to the energy disaster, but more subsidies would be given up to cover up the extent of the disaster. She notes the NSW Government Commissioned multiple reports about the impact of coal-fired power station closures on prices and the impact of the power market on heavy industry closures, but is refusing to release them publicly.