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Energy

June 2026

  • Senator David Pocock

    double quotation markIf Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return

    David Pocock
    We cannot afford to make the same mistake as we did with gas. If tech companies are going to use our land, energy and water for AI, they must pay their fair share of tax
  • Retail in Sydney

    Australian homes lead the world in solar. But businesses are falling behind

    Australia leads world in residential solar per capita with 22GW installed but commercial and industrial sector has deployed only a quarter of that

    • Inside Guardian Weekly
      Australia’s battery-powered revolution: inside the 5 June Guardian Weekly

    • Grogonomics
      double quotation markAustralia’s GDP figures are meaningless when the boom in datacentres means destroying jobs and the climate

      Greg Jericho

    • One Nation says it wants a Norway-style gas policy – but it’s not actually in favour of higher taxes on profits

  • Gas flares at a Woodside gas processing plant

    Gas usage has peaked and is now in structural decline across Australia, report says

    Grattan Institute calls on Labor to set policies that will further reduce the use of gas in order to meet net zero targets
  • A battery on a wall

    Change by degrees
    Power play: what to consider when installing a home battery in Australia

    More than 400,000 batteries have been installed under the cheaper home batteries scheme. Here’s how to get the best bang for your buck
  • A combination of rooftop solar, insulation and efficient appliances can halve energy bills in rental homes, experts say.

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Landlord inaction on energy upgrades stops renters saving $20bn on power bills in a decade

  • David Pocock

    The BHP files
    BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks, Pocock says

  • Chimneys at the defunct Liddell power station collapse during controlled demolition

    Liddell power station’s famous chimney stacks crumble into history in massive blast

  • The two giant chimney stacks crashed to the ground, three years after the defunct Liddell coal-fired power plant was decommissioned

    Decommissioned power station's chimneys crash to the ground in livestreamed demolition – video

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  • Northern Territory workers install solar panels in Daly River, Friday, August 11, 2017. Renewable energy has come to the Northern Territory bush, with solar power and battery storage set to provide an entire Aboriginal community’s daytime electricity needs for the first time. Around 500 residents from Daly River, more than 200km south of Darwin, will receive power entirely from the sun during the day when the solar and battery storage project is completed in September. (AAP Image/Lucy Hughes Jones) NO ARCHIVING

    Power bills to fall by up to 10% from July as renewables and batteries soar across Australia

  • An illustration of a BHP building in Perth surrounded by pollution

    The BHP files
    World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal

  • The BHP files
    double quotation markAustralian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of $4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions

    Adam Morton

  • The BHP files
    BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara

  • The BHP files
    Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push

  • Full Story
    Exclusive: Leaked documents show BHP’s climate backtrack – Full Story podcast

    Podcast20:53

  • The BHP files
    BHP quietly scrapped plan to build Pilbara plant that would have drastically cut emissions

  • Motorist filling up car with petrol

    Australian government plans for ‘worst-case scenario’ retail fuel rationing, documents reveal

    Exclusive: With warnings world oil supplies are expected to hit ‘red zone’ by August, the Albanese government has considered its powers to enforce daily purchase limits for motorists
  • Peter Lewis

    double quotation markIf Australia is home to an AI gold rush, let’s not squander it. Let’s fjord a different path

    Peter Lewis
    Tech titans appear to be cosying up to Canberra with an eye to training data models here. An AI wealth fund could share in the profits
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