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Nationals’ coal demand holds up energy bill

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Barnaby Joyce: wants to include coal and nuclear power. PHOTO: ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN

Distrust and division within the Coalition over climate change is behind an ongoing delay to pass legislation that would broaden the remit of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to include gas.

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SBS probe potential cyber-attack

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The NSW government’s cyber security agency is investigating whether the State’s health dept and other agencies have been victims of a high profile cyber attack that has hit the corporate watchdog law firm, Allens and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.   SBS was mentioned, however SBS has found no evidence of harm to its data.

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Drive for energy independence set Texas on path to disaster

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Texas, the United States’ leading energy-producing state, seemed like the last place on earth that could run out of energy. Then last week it did.

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Power fix ‘urgent’ as grid teeters

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Preventing power blackouts is becoming more difficult as cheaper but weather-dependent renewable power increasingly replaces coal power generation, endangering the security of supply in the national electricity market.
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Government urged to plan for coal exit

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The call on the Morrison government to initiate a nationally coordinated closure of coal power stations through an auction system is laid out in a report released today by the Blueprint Institute, a think tank founded by former advisers to ex-Liberal minister Julie Bishop and backed by former Liberal Party ministers Robert Hill and Christopher Pyne.
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