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Federal Labor has great energy policy achievements, but they can’t sell them
Labor has a whole list of great energy policy achievements, but it doesn’t appear capable of selling them. We look at what they have done, and what they should do.
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Rapacious utilities send power prices soaring as they seize on coal and network faults, and low wind output
Big generation companies seize on unplanned baseload and network outages to cause a spike in wholesale electricity prices in September, and reverse the long-term downward trend in some states.
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