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The latest news and media from Josh Wilson MP.
The latest news and media from Josh Wilson MP.
Today the Albanese Government has made two new savanna fire carbon credit methods that have the potential to generate an estimated additional $7.7 billion across northern Australia through capturing carbon and reducing emissions while supporting secure, long-term jobs and investment for First Nations communities.
Read more...The Albanese Government is investing more than $1.7 million to improve local bushland and wildlife habitat, while boosting community accessibility for Fremantle’s largest natural park.
Read more...It’s great to be here in Carnarvon with Premier Cook, and as he said yesterday, we announced the Albanese and Cook Labor Governments triggering all those disaster recovery funding arrangements to support the communities affected here in Western Australia by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle that caused carnage right across Australia from Queensland in the beginning, and then the Northern Territory, and then finally, here in Western Australia.
Read more...Deputy Speaker, I want to pay tribute to some of the wonderful volunteer organisations in the Fremantle electorate, and especially to the people who put their time and energy into making our community more inclusive, more connected, more fun, making our community healthier and happier, for providing a range of ways to be involved, through sport, through arts and crafts, through initiatives that provide practical assistance and cost savings and that combat loneliness and isolation at the same time.
Read more...Well, it’s a global crisis. We’ve got a war in the Middle East, and it’s putting unprecedented pressure on fuel supplies, and then that is cascading into lots of other areas of life. The response by the International Energy Agency in coordinating that global release of stocks that we’ve participated in as one of the things that we’ve done is the largest response that they’ve ever coordinated.
Read more...Well, it’s one of the biggest batteries to be delivered in Australia, probably the third biggest in Australia, the second biggest in New South Wales, 500 megawatts, 1000 megawatt hours. It’s a two-hour capacity battery. It could power 200,000 homes across that period.
Read more...And this is a great example here, the Liddell big battery, one of the biggest batteries in Australia, adding additional storage, while we see more and more renewables come into the grid, soaking up that cheap and abundant solar energy and allowing us to redeploy it at peak times.
Read more...With backing from the Albanese and Minns Labor Governments, the giant Liddell Battery, built on the site of one of Australia’s largest retired coal-fired power stations, is gearing up to provide enough power to support around 200,000 homes on the nation’s main electricity grid within months.
Read more...A Bibra Lake innovator, Red Earth Pollen is set for a $3 million boost to a project that aims to transform propolis – the resinous substance that bees use to seal and protect their hives against disease – into a bioactive ingredient for use in health and therapeutic products.
Read more...The amount of fuel that we hold in Australia is significant, certainly a lot more than was available under the coalition, and fuel is still arriving and being refined in Australia. So those parts of the system are working well, but we’ve got these localised shortages, which are a factor of supply chain challenges, and those really, really big surges in localised demand.
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