Prime MInister Anthony Albanese (left) and Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen (centre) with founder and CEO Vince Allen (right) during a visit to Sundrive in Sydney, Wednesday, November 1, 2023. Sundrive is Australia’s first mass production facility for solar panels. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins)

Business

Government’s pledge to ‘supercharge’ nation’s wobbly grid a big deal for our batteries

The Queensland Government owned generator companies would be able to add another 1.5 gigawatts of battery storage to the market.

Opinion

Optus debacle makes you wonder just how ready we are to deal with the future

Just imagine if Optus had a role in the 2032 Olympics and we had an outage of the scale of the recent one.

News

Labor versus Labor: Dick refuses to support Minister over infrastructure

Treasurer Cameron Dick has refused to say he has confidence in the federal Infrastructure Minister Katherine King after huge cuts to major Queensland projects were announced yesterday.

News

What a bummer: Queensland's 'punk rock turtle' at risk of extinction

The Mary River turtle has been elevated from endangered to critically endangered and a north Queensland species of gecko only discovered a decade ago has also joined the list.

Business

Senex gets a 10-year gas deal with Bluescope, but check the fine print

Senex has struck a deal to supply Bluescope with 20 petajoules of gas over a 10-year partnership but also said the deal was conditional and it was working with the Federal Government to satisfy those conditions.