The Renewable Energy Target (RET) is generally considered as having a target that will mean 20 per cent of electricity is generated from renewable sources…
Senator Day claimed on Sky News that: “evidence from around the world is that if you want more revenue, and I’m not suggesting we give…
Treasurer Joe Hockey has said “the poorest people either don’t have cars or actually don’t drive very far in many cases.” The Treasure also said…
Employment in renewable energy is difficult to determine. Figures are persistently disputed as being inflated or underestimated, depending on which stakeholder is asked. For example,…
Recent reports from the ABC and in the Australian, including a map of selected mines have outlined heavy job losses in Australia’s coal sector, specifically…
The Prime Minister continues to claim that “The RET is very significantly driving up power prices,”. He has made this claim in the past and…
In Mining the age of entitlement: State government assistance to the minerals and fossil fuel sector The Australia Institute has detailed the extent to which…
While the Hunter Valley produces and exports large volumes of coal, it is no longer the “bedrock” of the Hunter Valley economy that it once…
Electricity prices can be divided into retail and wholesale prices. Retail prices is that paid by consumers and the wholesale electricity price is the price…
The government announced in the budget that people aged under 30 will have to wait up to six months to receive Newstart payments. The Treasurer…
