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AGL reveals demerger would cost $260m as Mike Cannon-Brookes tries to block plan

Atlassian cofounder says released details prove the split would be a ‘terrible outcome’ for energy giant’s shareholders

The Guardian - AU

Analysis-Rising power bills complicate Australia's election climate war

In Australia's election fight, politicians are tiptoeing around the climate wars that have marked the past decade and a half, even as an activist billionaire put the issue front and centre this week, buying a key stake in Australia's top power producer.

Reuters

A bit rich? Billionaires’ climate efforts draw scepticism, praise

Mega-rich figures such as Andrew Forrest spend billions on climate change solutions while adding to carbon emissions.

Al Jazeera

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Clouds gather in Singapore over Cannon-Brookes, Twiggy-backed $30b Sun Cable project

It's billed as a poster child for Australian renewable energy exports, but Sun Cable's plan to build the world's biggest solar farm draws scepticism in its target market, Singapore.

ABC News

Australia’s biggest industrial players are focusing on climate solutions – why isn’t the political debate?

Tomago Aluminium previously said shifting away from coal could lead to blackouts – now it’s publicly embracing renewables in the middle of an election campaign

The Guardian - AU

Mike Cannon-Brookes says large AGL shareholders back his bid to stop energy giant’s demerger

Australia’s largest power generator vows to go ahead with demerger after tech billionaire buys 11% stake in company

The Guardian - AU

Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes becomes AGL’s largest shareholder

Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes buys shares in coal-powered energy company AGL, vowing to create "a better future" that moves towards "decarbonisation".

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AGL board and billionaire at loggerheads

AGL Energy is in a stoush with its billionaire shareholder who rejects their plan to split and backs his own way to rapidly switch the power grid to renewables.

AAP

Cannon-Brookes becomes largest shareholder in AGL Energy

The AGL Energy board's push to demerge the company with the 75 per cent approval of shareholders is facing a fresh hurdle after a billionaire bought up shares.

Newcastle Herald

Sydney news: Man guilty of 1988 Scott Johnson murder to be sentenced

MORNING BRIEFING: The man who has admitted his guilt in the 1988 murder of Scott Johnson faces sentencing.

ABC News

Mike Cannon-Brookes is now AGL's largest single shareholder

AGL says it’s determined to go ahead with the merger despite the purchase, which has made Cannon-Brookes the company’s largest single shareholder

The Guardian - AU

Another outage at AGL's Loy Yang station

An electrical fault at AGL's Loy Yang A coal-fired power station has wiped a quarter of its generation capacity, potentially for months.

AAP

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