The political message in this budget is breathtakingly simple. The broader policy plan is fiendishly complex.
Just spending money on handouts to bring down inflation is not Jim Chalmers’ main game.
Economists have warned that Labor’s budget spending could put pressure on the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates higher for longer.
Teal independents,the Greens and even Labor MPs are pushing back against the government’s gas plan as a Morrison-era rerun.
The oil super majors are eyeing shifting their primary stock exchange listings to New York as a stronger push to reduce fossil fuels in their home markets weighs on their share prices.
The federal government is backing new gas fields as essential in the move to renewables.
Australian power giant Origin’s stake in Britain’s Octopus Energy has gained hundreds of millions of dollars in value after the fast-growing UK company secured new backing.
WAtoday regrets stating that Onshore Energy “is being pursued” by the West Australian government.
AGL wants to build huge turbines off Victoria’s coast that could bring vast amounts of wind power to customers and help replace its coal-fired power plants.
The Albanese government has identified the first fleet of aspiring wind farm developers and issued six permits to build turbines off the Victorian coast.
Origin Energy and the NSW government are in detailed talks over the future of Eraring,the largest Australian coal-fired power plant.