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Powered 100% by wind, America's Super Bowl XLIX this weekend looks set to be the greenest ever, with both teams sporting solar at their home stadiums.

Campbell Newman is at risk of being swept from power as Queenslanders realise what Newman pointed out in 2011 - that digging up vast tracks of the Galilee Basin to export coal is a monumentally stupid idea. Newman would likely turn purple at the idea of losing office, but a new solar map shows his electorate already has (turned purple).

Senior Coalition MP says solar and storage will take consumers off the grid, so best to sell networks while they still have value.

Beyond zero emissions - what was once seen as 'radical' has now become mainstream by respected international organisations.

Eos Energy storage’s aurora battery system will be commercially available In 2016, at $160/kWh.

Bosch and the real estate development company Taurus Investment Holdings are partnering together to outfit a new 7,500 home “master-planned” community.

The carbon tax did achieve very substantial reductions in emissions across the sectors to which it applied.

PwC adds to gloom on Australian renewables, noting Coalition policy has brought an abrupt halt to deal-making, while it booms across the world.

A new draft report from China's National Energy Agency has set a 15GW target for added solar capacity for 2015 – 8GW of which will be grid-connected.

Broadwater is an LNP seat on the Gold Coast, covering the suburbs of Labrador, Biggera Waters, Runaway Bay, Coombabah and Paradise Point as well as South Stradbroke Island.

Broadwater was won in 2012 by LNP candidate Verity Barton with a 13.3% swing, and she holds Broadwater by a margin of 11.3%.

By Leith van Onselen The Abbott Government’s metadata legislation, which would require telecommunications companies to store detailed information about the calls and internet use of its customers for two years, has come under fire from Telstra’s chief information security officer, Michael Burgess, who claims that a central data storage system would be an attractive target […]

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We’re marching again, writes Loz Lawrey. And with good reason.

In 2008, when Australia faced a real and actual global financial crisis, sound economic initiatives by the Labor government of the day sheltered our nation from the pain suffered by other western nations.

In the months leading up to the 7th September 2013 election the Australian electorate was assaulted by a barrage of hysterical obfuscation that twisted facts and distorted reality, creating the false perception of a disastrous budgetary/national debt problem.

Letter to the Editor Australian Financial Review 29/01/2015 Those urging cuts to penalty rates and minimum wages for working people remind me of the blind guides, in the biblical proverb, who strain at a gnat and yet would swallow a camel. Your story “Mates’ rates help Rosy’s cafe survive Australia Day penalty” (AFRJanuary 27) demonstrates […]