politics

Australia’s most ambitious renewable energy project is slowly nearing completion, but experts are divided on whether Snowy 2.0 will ever justify its snowballing price tag.  Source link

In what is being described as a significant leap forward in Australia’s push to develop and manufacture its own missiles, newly released footage shows the first test-firing of a locally made solid rocket motor.  Source link

Australia and the United States’ initial positions about delivering a new submarine under AUKUS differed, Senate estimates has revealed. Source link

Katherine residents have welcomed a $2 billion lawsuit over PFAS contamination in the town, saying “it’s about time we started holding large corporations to account”. Source link

The One Nation leader, whose popularity has soared in the past 12 months, would be the first to say she doesn’t put too much stock in the numbers. Source link

Australia now has 178 billionaires who collectively hold more than $686 billion in wealth, sparking debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the growing number of ultra-wealthy. Source link

Commissioner Virginia Bell says the documents will provide a comparison of the resourcing given to counterterrorism agencies before and after August 2024, when the terror threat level was raised to “probable”.  Source link

Defence Minister Richard Marles has defended a shake-up to AUKUS that would involve Australia buying three second-hand Virginia-class submarines from the United States. Source link

One Nation recruit Barnaby Joyce says politics in Australia has changed as he welcomes the results of an opinion poll that suggests his party now has more support than Labor. Follow live.  Source link

It’s been about for a century, but companies are springing to action to find “gold hydrogen” underground around the country, as Australia and the world strive to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Source link