Federal climate and energy minister Chris Bowen has again slammed the federal Coalition’s “nuclear fantasy”, describing it as a deliberate distraction and the latest “desperate effort” to keep the culture war over energy and climate alive....
Australian Greens founder and award winning environmentalist Bob Brown has slammed the organisers of an anti-renewables rally planned for outside federal parliament next week, and demanded they stop using his name and image to promote a protest he says has been “hijacked by the coal lobby.”...
Australian households are already the biggest adopters of rooftop solar panels in the world, and the technology already provides all of local demand in some states at certain times, and more than 11 per cent of total grid demand over the past year....