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We should be a renewable energy superpower and a green industry powerhouse. And there’s no better jurisdiction in Australia than Queensland to make that true.
Read more...My sense from colleagues in NSW is that places like the Hunter are taking that on, communities are taking that on because they can already see that we’ve made huge progress with renewable energy. I mean, NSW has gone from 10% to 36% inside the last 10 years. And they’re seeing the reality of solar PV on their own homes. You know, we’re kind of at the point now with more than a third of Australians already making that switch themselves. People know that the opportunity to have cleaner and cheaper energy is before us. We just have to seize it with both hands.
Read more...As we take on the responsible task that Australia 100% needs, the world is going through an energy transformation, we have the opportunity to be a renewable energy superpower because of our comparative strengths when it comes to renewable energy and innovation and entrepreneurship and all of these things. We were denied that opportunity because we had a government that for ten years did nothing. And we are getting on that path.
Read more...It is lovely to be here at Elwood primary school, and today we’re announcing that the National Built Environment Rating Scheme (NABERS) is being extended to cover schools. It’s been a fantastic tool over a long period of time, helping our built environment to make the transition to more energy efficient circumstances, better energy performance, and there are lots of benefits from that. The first benefit, of course, is in terms of cost reductions. We know for both businesses and households and schools that when you get better energy performance, you lower your energy costs. But at the same time, those buildings become more liveable, they’re cooler in hot weather and warmer in the cold months, and you make a contribution to tackling dangerous climate change by reducing emissions.
Read more...We are putting Australia on the path to a sustainable, self-sufficient energy future that we control, that will be cleaner, both in terms of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and will be cheaper and will be reliable.
None of those things will be delivered by entertaining a nuclear con job that couldn’t possibly result in even one watt of electricity inside of 15 to 20 years. But if it was ever to occur, if it was ever to be inflicted on Australia, it would lock Australian households into higher prices and would suck $600 billion out of the Commonwealth budget, which inevitably has to come from somewhere. It has to come from schools or hospitals or defence or pensions or other aspects of the social safety net.
Nuclear has been an industry that’s been around for a long time. It likes to pretend that it’s always on the cusp of some fantastic new technological revolution, but almost all of the sort of the fairy tales that the nuclear industry has told have failed to come true, and unfortunately, it’s been the nightmares, in the case of Chernobyl and Fukushima that have become the reality. There aren’t yet any functioning SMRs in the world, and the coalition likes to put a lot of time and energy into that particular fantasy in lieu of having a national energy policy or anything that looks like it.
Read more...These two batteries will operate in a way that is designed to give the benefits of cleaner and cheaper energy to people who need it the most, tenants of the South Australian Social Housing Trust, and the benefits will be in the form of a 25% discount to the default market offer. It’s estimated to be about $550 a year. So that’s something that makes a difference, and we know that there’s a cost-of-living crisis, so it’s in keeping with the Albanese Labor Government’s approach to life, which is to make a difference right now where we can, especially when it comes to cost-of-living, while setting Australia up for a better future.
Read more...Both headline and core inflation came down in the most recent measure, and that’s really what our focused and responsible budget management is all about, taking that pressure off households while we still find the capacity to support them directly with cost-of-living measures.
Read more...We know that Australia needs to be on the path for cleaner and cheaper energy, and that involves investment in storage, but the energy efficiency part of that task is under-regarded and important, because the cheapest energy is the energy you don’t use in the first place. That’s why the Albanese Labor Government provided $1.7 billion in the May budget to improve energy efficiency across the board.
Read more...Subject: Peter Dutton’s nuclear scam Peter Dutton announced his nuclear plan, it doesn’t deserve to be called a nuclear plan, or even a policy. It is a joke, it’s a scam that he wants to inflict on the Australian community, and we don’t know anything about that plan other than seven locations that he’s already […]
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