See what WA advocacy groups and stakeholders think about the 2026-27 state budget.
The headline of today’s budget was a novel $100 “fuel support payment” that will only just be enough to fill my the tank of my Ford Focus once with maybe enough left over to get a cheese and bacon traveller pie with sauce.
Once described as the missing link for renewable energy,batteries are transforming the electricity market and absorbing the worst of the global oil shock.
Energy giant AGL is raising alarm over a proposed overhaul of the way customers are billed for the upkeep of the electricity grid.
The supermarket chain argues that its suppliers were demanding it raise prices as inflation spiked,and it then offered shoppers genuine specials.
The $750 million cost-of-living measure is the latest big-spending initiative before November’s election that defies warnings from economists and ratings agencies.
Governments spent billions of dollars to encourage home owners to buy batteries,but advocates say a change from the energy market rule-maker will cut uptake.
The Australian Energy Market Commission says a proposed shake-up of electricity pricing could cut bills,but experts say household battery investors will be worse off.
Would it make more sense to make public transport free forever,or spend the money brought in by fares on improving services?
Many councils are planning to increase “domestic waste management” charges to cover the cost of running the trucks.