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Profit push by energy companies draws ire of minister

Claims by power companies their profit margins are under threat from price caps have been played down by the energy minister.

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Hunter projects in the running for $2 billion hydrogen booster shot

Hunter hydrogen projects on national shortlist for $2billion funding.

Newcastle Herald

WA bushfires destroy at least one home – as it happened

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Sandy bottom is better than Christmas

Letters to the Editor: Baths' sandy bottom is better than Christmas

Newcastle Herald

You can’t make a net-zero Australia on a gas cooktop

There must be trade-offs if we are to get serious about cutting emissions – and phasing out gas appliances is one of the easiest

The Guardian - AU

From laggard to leader? Why Australia must phase out fossil fuel exports, starting now

For years large fossil fuel producers — including Australia — have expanded fossil fuel production while maintaining rhetorically that the world needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But global emissions are overwhelmingly caused by the extraction, transport and burning of fossil fuels. Unless fossil fuels are phased out, emissions will…

The Conversation

Cop28 has finally named fossil fuels as the climate problem. But do leaders have the will to act?

The UN summit’s deal heralds the end of coal, oil and gas. The real test is whether producers back it up with action

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COP28 deal confirms what Australia already knows: coal is out of vogue and out of time

At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai this week, nations agreed to “transition away” from coal, oil and gas . After 30 years of COP meetings, the world has finally committed to weaning itself from these carbon-based drivers of climate change.

The Conversation

Afternoon Update: Lisa Wilkinson takes stand in Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial; Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions quashed; and how to age well

‘I feel we investigated the story extremely well,’ Lisa Wilkinson says in court of her reporting of Brittany Higgins’ claims

The Guardian - AU

Chris Bowen calls on News Corp to sack Andrew Bolt for column saying Australians sick of ‘kowtowing to the primitive’

Columnist lashes out after climate change minister makes speech during Cop28 declaring ‘profound respect’ for Indigenous people’s care for land

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Australia looks ahead, with hopes to host climate talks

As the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference draws to a close, Australia looks ahead to COP31, throwing its hat into the co-hosting ring.

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Morning Mail: Thousands lose millions in crypto schemes, Queensland cyclone aftermath, Bowen hails end of fossil fuels

Investors have lost millions of dollars to ‘pyramid scheme’; homes at risk after ex-Cyclone Jasper dumps 500mm of rain but weakens as it moves inland

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Qantas calls cash compensation for delayed flights a ‘backwards step’ – as it happened

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‘The age of fossil fuels will end’: Australia’s Chris Bowen hails Cop28 agreement

Climate change minister says deal is not perfect but ‘transition away’ from oil and gas sends clear message to investors

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Australia won't sign 'death certificate' climate deal

A draft deal from the world's biggest climate talks has been decried as a "death certificate" for island nations and Australia, the US and Japan won't sign it.

The Guardian - AU

Cop28: Australia, US and UK say they won’t sign agreement that would be ‘death certificate’ for small islands

Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, says umbrella group of countries is united in saying draft agreement is too weak

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Morning Mail: poll shows cost-of-living struggle, anger over Cop28 draft deal, Australian women win Globe nods

Guardian Essential poll shows Australians increasingly worried about their finances, while Chris Bowen says Saudis are blocking breakthrough on fossil fuel ‘phase-out’

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The two Australias at Cop28: a country at odds with itself on the climate crisis

At Cop28, Labor has made more progress on climate than the Coalition did in nearly a decade – but can this be true if Australia remains the world’s third biggest fossil fuel exporter?

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Morning Mail: changes to ‘broken’ migration system; Cop28 goes down to the wire; winter looms in Gaza

Labor says visa reforms are needed to address exploitation; leaders at climate summit told to embrace compromise; trapped Palestinians dread rise of disease

The Guardian - AU

Chris Bowen says agreement on global fossil fuel phase out central to Australia’s renewable energy plans

Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C goal alive as he names Saudi Arabia as a block to agreement

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Coalition opposes Australia tripling renewable energy, backs nuclear power pledge at Cop28

Ted O’Brien declares global climate summit ‘the nuclear Cop’ despite only 11% of nations backing the pledge

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Chris Bowen backs ‘a big step forward’ on phasing out fossil fuels at Cop28

Australia’s climate minister flags difficulties around any final wording but hails ‘important symbol’ as talks intensify in Dubai

The Conversation

Helping the Pacific financially is a great start – but Australia must act on the root cause of the climate crisis

The federal government has announced an extra A$150 million for climate finance – including $100 million for the Pacific to help protect its people, housing and infrastructure from the escalating impacts of global warming.

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Grattan on Friday: winners and losers in end-of-year report card on Albanese ministers

It’s not just kids who get report cards (PDFs these days) as school breaks up. So do government ministers, when parliament rises at year’s end.

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Taxpayers to stop funding global fossil fuel projects

Public money will not be used to pay for international climate polluting projects after the Australian government signed on to the Glasgow statement at COP28.

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