Today
Tim Bishop’s Wollemi Capital hires former NSW treasurer Matt Kean
The former state Liberal deputy leader and energy minister was appointed chairman of the federal government’s Climate Change Authority less than two months ago.
- Kylar Loussikian
Directors revolt over government’s climate, IR and merger laws
Mandatory climate reporting, tougher merger laws and workplace legal changes have seen concerns over red tape soar.
- Patrick Durkin
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Cheap, fast and low-risk climate action opportunities
The core principles that drive good investment are also at play in climate change. Climate Ltd should think about diversifying its emission reduction bets.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
This Month
- Updated
- Gas
Woodside’s $30b Browse LNG project faces EPA knockback threat
The recommendation is not final and could be reversed after further negotiations, but a final rejection would be a blow to Labor’s long-term gas strategy.
- Updated
- Ben Potter, Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
July
Big Glencore shareholders want to keep coal
An influential group of Glencore shareholders want the company to abandon a plan to spin-off its coal division, and allocate those earnings to new avenues of growth.
- Peter Ker
That cool op-shop jacket could earn you carbon credits
Federal regulators are considering a proposal to offer financial incentives to consumers who buy second-hand clothes.
- Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Construction industry needs building code in addition to ABCC
Letters from readers on how to police the building industry; ambitious climate goals; the folly of nuclear power; and rising gas prices.
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Biden should go one step further and resign as president now
Letters from readers on the US election; Michael Stutchbury stepping down; climate analysis; pension reform; and protecting healthcare from cyber threats.
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Delivering the world’s most important corporate rescue
What’s true for commodities is true for the greatest eleventh-hour turnaround in human history. In climate terms, that means “the cure for high emissions is high prices”.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Woodside’s big bet on US LNG will collide with Trump’s second coming
Just days after Donald Trump declared he wants to “drill, baby, drill”, Woodside has placed $22 billion on an unloved US project. It isn’t without risks.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Superannuation is not for your kids’ inheritance
Letters from readers on super tax concessions; equitable road tolls; aged care and productivity; the need for plain speaking on climate; and ANZ’s bonds scandal.
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
On school funding, all governments get a fail
Letters from readers on the Gonski funding challenge; Telstra’s price increases; the NSW review of road tolls; action on climate change; and the health of the River Seine.
‘Alltoohardism’ supplants climate denial as obstacle to renewables
Chris Bowen remains upbeat about achieving 82 per cent renewable energy generation by the end of the decade.
- Phillip Coorey
June
Labor’s new climate chief Matt Kean says nuclear not viable
Anthony Albanese has announced Matt Kean as the next chairman of the Climate Change Authority, but again refused to commit to announcing its recommended 2035 target.
- Phillip Coorey
Kean gets top climate job; Cettire dives 44pc; Myer’s huge expansion
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Sir Andrew Mackenzie: time to focus on the best few climate solutions
The Shell chairman says the world’s carbon challenge is harder than he realised while running BHP, and it’s time for a global focus on a few winning solutions
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Rio Tinto puts biofuels before batteries in carbon credit push
The miner reckons farmers should be eligible to earn carbon credits for growing crops that can be turned into carbon-neutral biofuels.
- Peter Ker
- Exclusive
- Nuclear energy
Switkowski backs nuclear push, Dutton promises costings
Ziggy Switkowski says nuclear power has a role to play in the zero-emissions energy mix and would deliver a positive return to taxpayers.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Dutton is prepared to take risks, but he is no onion eater
The signature difference between what the Coalition unleashed on Wednesday and the debilitating climate fights of the past is that both parties are operating from the assumption that emissions need to be reduced.
- Phillip Coorey
Labor’s AUKUS embrace negates nuclear waste argument: Dutton
Labor has already agreed to establish a high-level nuclear waste dump under the AUKUS pact.
- Phillip Coorey
