The energy crisis continues to dominate news and the efforts of the newly-elected Labor government, with experts warning that electricity users are set to pay much, much more and thousands of manufacturing jobs could be at risk.

In a final act of destruction before departing for the incoming Labor government, former environment minister Sussan Ley tore up the recovery plans designed to prevent the extinction of almost 180 threatened species and habitats, including the Tasmanian devil.

Chris Bowen has been announced as Australia’s new climate change minister and has flagged taking Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target to Parliament while also pledging to cut taxes on electric vehicles.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese looks set to form a majority Labor government, with the ABC projecting that a Labor victory in the Melbourne seat of Macnamara will give Labor at least 76 seats — the minimum required to form a majority government.

Big news out of AGL this morning, with numerous outlets reporting that Australia’s biggest climate polluter is set to scrap its controversial demerger, after huge investor and environmental pressure.The renewable energy vision of the new government has inspired the big banks, while a new report has...

Australia’s new foreign minister, Penny Wong has praised Pacific leaders for their leadership on climate action, vowed Australia would listen to them, and acknowledged they had been "ignored" and "disrespected" in the past, during a speech in Fiji.

Australians who voted for stronger climate action over the weekend may be disappointed, but not really surprised, that the new Nats MP for the Queensland seat of Flynn was a founding member of a club formed to promote climate science denial and signed onto a public statement declaring “there is no...

In a last-ditch bid to save its re-election chances, the Morrison government delayed news that electricity bills were due to rise, in order to continue crowing about keeping prices down during their time in office.

Australia ranks as the world’s worst polluter from the use of coal, with per capita emissions from coal-fired generation higher than any other developed country and four times larger than the global average, according to damning new analysis. 

UN chief António Guterres has called fossil fuels a dead end “environmentally and economically” as Australian medical professionals write to leaders and energy companies calling for the country to replace coal power by 2030.