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Jun 6, 2025 – 3.54pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio admits the state government will know the total cost of its multibillion-dollar renewable energy plan only once all the contracts involved are signed over the coming years.

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Jun 1, 2025 – 3.37pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The total cost to households and businesses for the upgrade to Victoria’s electricity grid, required to support the shift to renewable energy, will be more than four times the $4.3 billion figure set out in a transition road map unveiled last month.

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May 28, 2025 – 1.17pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A proposal to give a major Indigenous site in the Pilbara a World Heritage listing is unlikely to proceed after the UN agency responsible for the decision said any new industrial development would make it impossible.

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Tom Rabe, Jesinta Burton and Ryan CroppMay 27, 2025 – 10.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Governments should admit transition away from fossil fuels is taking longer than expected and unlock more supply if they want to keep prices from spiking and wean Asia off coal-fired generation, the CEOs of the country’s two largest gas companies have said.

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May 27, 2025 – 7.16am or Subscribe to save article3 mins ago – 7.16AMChina comes calling in debts of developing nationsDeveloping nations, including those in the Pacific, will pay China $34 billion this year as Beijing comes calling for repayments on project funding. China is now “the world’s largest single destination for developing country debt payments” and outstripping the whole of the West, says a new report shows from Australian think tank The Lowy Institute.