Jacob Greber

The Albanese government will dedicate $1 billion towards the domestic production of solar panels, including in coal-rich Hunter Valley.

The green energy advocate’s caution comes as Labor looks to fund early retirements of coal power station workers, some earning up to $170,000 a year.

The incoming chair of the nation’s sprawling $212 billion Future Fund says it’s time to return to public investment in green energy.

The incoming chairman of the $212 billion Future Fund has personally urged the Albanese government to use the upcoming budget to make “significant” direct investments in post-fossil fuel renewable energy and grid projects.

For 99.9 per cent of the time the governor-general is irrelevant to the lives of most Australians. But when they do matter, they matter very much.

A Labor green group says reforms to environmental laws are an Albanese “election commitment” on an issue Labor members have campaigned for nearly a decade.

In another Victorian clash over gas with the Albanese government, Lily D’Ambrosio accused Madeleine King of behaving like “a Coalition minister”.

Labor should “re-engage” over trade co-operation, said EU Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson, who advocated the benefits of nuclear power.

Labor’s should lay off ‘steering’ business, invest in R&D and work with, rather than against, trade partners, says Minerals Council CEO Tania Constable.

Federal spy and crime chiefs will demand access to social messaging systems that allow terrorists, violent extremists and child abusers to operate with impunity.