Australia’s red meat industry is demanding the Albanese government intervene to head off “ideological” manipulation of official dietary guidelines to curtail meat consumption on climate grounds, as a top food scientist is “purged” from a key role for not being sufficiently activist.
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REALITY V THE FALSE ALARMISTS
At the 2025 Bush Summit in Ballarat, Anthony Albanese defended his government’s increasingly radical plans to decarbonise the Australian economy by invoking the science.
Read moreGovt backs cross-border economic zone with RM850m in industry and talent incentives
Malaysia pledges significant financing, streamlined approvals and skills development to drive investor confidence and advance regional integration
Read moreVictorian energy transition doubts grow as RWE abandons Gippsland offshore wind farm plans
German energy giant RWE has scrapped plans to develop a major offshore wind farm in Victoria, delivering a fresh setback to the state’s already fragile energy transition.
Read moreFortescue bows to China on costs
Fortescue will be a big customer for zero-emissions mining equipment from China, having learnt the lesson that developed nations cannot compete with China on manufacturing.
Read moreTrim the budget fat: Mark McGowan tells Jim Chalmers
One of Labor’s most successful premiers, Mark McGowan, and business chiefs are warning Jim Chalmers to prioritise spending restraint over higher taxes, as trade unions demand new levies on property investors, gas companies and the wealthy to plug the budget black hole created by the overhaul of the super tax.
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14 October 2025
There’s Misinformation. Disinformation. And then there is Chrisinformation.
Chris Bowen can’t or won’t explain his claim about the scale of Australia’s renewables rollout, as a conservationist accuses him of misrepresenting a group that has mapped it.
Read moreDoubling down on net zero as emissions grow
Is the world cooling on net zero? If this is so, Australia’s extraordinarily high emissions reduction target of 62 to 70 per cent for 2035 looks like a classic case of economic self-harm.
Read moreBusinesses rank energy as their No. 1 concern
Businesses now rank the cost of energy as the chief concern for their future, rating it almost three times more worrying than US tariff and trade disruptions, according to new analysis.
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