Government unveils $2.4b fuel security package for oil refineries Monday May 17, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Economy & Industry Angus Taylor says Australia currently has 83 days worth of fuel stocked up. The package aims to extend that to more than 90 days.
Premium Insights and analysis Expert savages federal vision for a ‘gas-led recovery’ Wednesday May 12, 2021 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry Energy policy expert Peter Newman believes the government's gas projects are doomed to become stranded assets that will rapidly lose money rather than make any…
Time to cut off the influence of the party’s ‘big swinging dicks’ and for PM to listen Thursday March 11, 2021 By Amber Schultz Editors' Picks The 'big swinging dicks' group might not exist any more, but its mentality is alive and well in the Liberal Party. Here's who's got it.
The Carbon Club: ‘toxic’ politics must go before Australia can ever develop another climate policy Wednesday September 23, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment Former Liberal senator Cory Bernardi's use of US-inspired strategies to bring down Malcolm Turnbull as party leader in 2009 was a key moment in Australia's…
Premium The Briefing The Briefing: Interventionism, confusion and oversupply top industry complaints over Scott Morrison’s ‘Dispatchable Energy Target’ Friday September 18, 2020 By Chris Woods Editors' Picks Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Energy Minister Angus Taylor's plan for 1,000 megawatts of new 'dispatchable' power in NSW has been met with praise from…
Government unveils $211m plan to secure diesel supplies Monday September 14, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment Under the plan, $200 million would be invested in a competitive grants program to build an additional 780ML of onshore diesel storage. The government will…
Agriculture department had no plan to maximise value for money of Murray-Darling water purchases, audit finds Friday July 17, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment The former Department of Agriculture and Water Resources' handling of Murray-Darling strategic water buybacks was not “fully effective”, the national auditor-general has found.
‘What climate policy?’: former top mandarins voice anger over Australia’s failure to tackle climate change Tuesday May 19, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment Former top bureaucrats have spoken out about what they believe to be a failure by Australian politicians and their respective governments to implement and maintain…
Progress at last: Environment department begins to update non-compliant FOI log after 10 months Monday October 21, 2019 By Stephen Easton Energy & Environment The Department of the Environment and Energy has added the first new entries to its freedom-of-information disclosure log since December, 2018, shortly after The Mandarin reported…
The Department of the Environment and Energy has been breaching the FOI Act for 10 months now Wednesday October 16, 2019 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology The Department of the Environment and Energy has been in breach of the Freedom of Information Act for almost 10 months. That's how long it's…
What the government is (and isn’t) doing to slash energy bills Tuesday September 10, 2019 By Matthew Elmas Energy & Environment There’s been no shortage of attention on small business energy bills over the last 18 months, amid myriad complaints from local entrepreneurs about rising bill prices…
Energy minister rejects audit findings and 'will not apologise' for publicly funded ads Tuesday August 27, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment Federal Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor has told Auditor-General Grant Hehir that he's not sorry for "empowering Australians" through tax-payer funded advertising.
Promoted Why Azure is a gamechanger for government Tuesday April 10, 2018 By Julian Bajkowski Career Advice Agencies have for years played on the margins of cloud, only to find choices and progress constrained amid concerns over security, sovereignty, governance and resilience.
Feds promise 'sector-by-sector' data rights, more data reforms in a few weeks Monday November 27, 2017 By Stephen Easton News The Commonwealth is phasing in a “consumer data right” sector-by-sector, forcing companies to give them access to some of their account information, in line with…
The feds have caught data fever but does the public share the enthusiasm? Tuesday October 10, 2017 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology The federal government is clearly sold on big data and is combining massive stores of sensitive public information. It needs to bring the public along…
