Households are set to gain federal help to cut their energy bills under a government plan to make it easier for them to buy home batteries.
Tax is a latecomer to the campaign agenda,Medicare has taken centre stage,and a nuclear energy fight will keep climate change in the conversation.
With power prices set to rise by as much as $200 a year,the Albanese government’s latest cost-of-living pledge comes as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton seeks to remind voters that Labor has failed to bring prices down.
Teal independent Sophie Scamps wants financial support to underwrite the cost of household batteries - and both major parties are working on it.
Australians have been misled about power prices for years – and the fake claims will get worse now the election campaign is so close.
The spectre of power prices jumping in July will loom over the federal election campaign widely expected to begin within weeks.
With hundreds of thousands of customers set to be impacted from July 1,here are some tips from energy experts that will lessen the blow.
A major green energy investor will bring some of the world’s most powerful batteries,which could run for twice as long as today’s biggest systems,to Australia.
Electricity costs are set to double over the next five years even if the state meets its renewable energy targets,according to new projections.
The Climate Change Authority has warned a switch to nuclear would lead Australia to miss its climate target for 2030 and struggle to reach net zero by 2050.