Nationals leader Littleproud told journalist David Speers that he’d be open to a “gas reservation policy” to avert what’s described as a gas supply crisis. Most of Australia’s gas is exported, and the companies make money. Littleproud is claiming the solutions look like “carbon capture and storage” and “picking up the phone” to the gas companies, and says the Coalition ...
Australia has complained to China over its interception of a maritime surveillance flight in international airspace in the South China Sea region, which the deputy prime minister labeled “very dangerous”. The defense department has revealed the interception of a “routine maritime surveillance activity” in a statement on Sunday, claiming it resulted in a “dangerous maneuver” that risked the safety of ...
Blizzard conditions are on their way for large parts of New South Wales and Victoria’s alpine areas as a “vigorous” cold front bring cold showers, strong winds, and frigid temperatures. At the same time, South Australia has been hit by torrential rain. The Bureau of Meteorology issued severe weather warnings for damaging wind gusts and blizzard conditions for southern NSW ...
Anthony Albanese says he will talk to Timor-Leste leaders on the flight to Indonesia for his first official visit to that country after the Timorese became the latest regional neighbors to sign agreements with China. Before flying to Jakarta on Sunday, Albanese told reporters in Perth he had not yet had the opportunity for a “one on one discussion” with ...
Allies of Scott Morrison have been dumped from the shadow cabinet, and senior conservatives promoted in a reshuffle stamping Peter Dutton’s mark on the Liberal party. Dutton and the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, announced the shadow ministry in Brisbane on Sunday, revealing it will include ten women, with six Nationals in the cabinet. Conservative Angus Taylor will become shadow treasurer ...
Chris Bowen has rejected Coalition claims Labor is not doing enough to fix the energy crisis, labeling its input “as effective as advice from the captain of the Titanic on navigation skills”. On Sunday, the climate change and energy minister told Sky News that the new government was “actively managing” the crisis. However, a decade of inaction on renewables and ...
Since Ruth Haggar lost her home in the New South Wales town of Quaama in the Black Summer bushfires more than two years ago, she has wanted a single, local source of help. “You’ve got fire brain, you’re traumatized, you’re running on adrenaline, you’re filling out a bunch of paperwork, you’re running after this grant and that grant, you’re sitting ...