Mayor is worried about ‘strain’ from solar farm
Wangaratta Mayor Irene Grant fears council resources will be stretched thin as they prepare to manage the rollout of a solar farm development they don’t want.
Wangaratta Mayor Irene Grant fears council resources will be stretched thin as they prepare to manage the rollout of a solar farm development they don’t want.
Australia’s net zero policy has driven up power prices, cost jobs, and wasted billions. While other nations retreat from unrealistic targets, we continue burdening ourselves despite making up just one per cent of global emissions. It’s time to drop net zero and return to common sense – focusing on affordable energy, jobs, and real progress over ideology.
Bowen’s $290bn tax slug is Gillard’s carbon tax times five
The best of days and the worst of days in South Australia tell the Dickensian tale of this nation’s energy transition.
We have a national energy crisis that is the direct result of federal and state government policies, implemented by Labor and Coalition administrations across a long period, motivated by the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Numerous serious workplace health and safety issues at a workers camp for the $1bn Kidston Pumped Hydro Project, including filthy, mouldy rooms, putrid food, and gastro outbreaks, have prompted workers to down tools.
Australia’s red meat industry is demanding the Albanese government intervene to head off “ideological” manipulation of official dietary guidelines to curtail meat consumption on climate grounds, as a top food scientist is “purged” from a key role for not being sufficiently activist.
At the 2025 Bush Summit in Ballarat, Anthony Albanese defended his government’s increasingly radical plans to decarbonise the Australian economy by invoking the science.
Senate officials have rejected Climate Minister’s secrecy claims over withheld briefing documents as pressure mounts for transparency on Australia’s net-zero challenges.
New research showing Australia’s 2030 climate targets could cost up to $22.3bn monthly as party divisions deepen.
