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Leaked videos reveal flooding in troubled Snowy 2.0 tunnel project

The videos starkly illustrate the enormous challenges the multibillion-dollar project is encountering beneath a national park,and away from the public’s eye.

  • Matt O'Sullivan andMike Foley

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Batteries are exceeding expectations and transforming the electricity grid.

Australia’s battery boom has doubled in a year – and is rewiring the energy grid

Once described as the missing link for renewable energy,batteries are transforming the electricity market and absorbing the worst of the global oil shock.

  • Mike Foley andNick Toscano
Patients at Prince Charles Hospital now have the chance of living a longer,healthier life with a major facility upgrade.

Mind the byelection for Metro North chief in curious committee call-up

This week in our Queensland public sector column,Public Circus details a health service’s political run-in,a council’s AI warning,Powerlink’s (coming) new boss,and more.

  • Matt Dennien
Household battery owners are worried they will be disadvantaged by proposed bil changes.

‘Changing ground rules’:Fury over bill change that could burst the battery boom

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.

  • Mike Foley andNick Toscano
The Australian Energy Market Commission has recommended changes to the way electricity customers pay for poles and wires upkeep.

Battery owners face thousands of dollars in losses under new scheme

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.

  • Mike Foley
Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki.

New data reveals Queensland’s cost-of-living pain from fuel crisis

Treasurer David Janetzki blamed the previous Labor government for households being under pressure when asked about the figures on Monday.

  • Dominique Tassell
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Synergy are investigating the claims.

Synergy says ‘no evidence’ 900,000 customer accounts have been hacked despite warning

Earlier this week,cybersecurity websites and social media accounts reported a hacker under the moniker “hackboy” had stolen data from 900,002 accounts.

  • Hamish Hastie
The fuel excise tax cut is a mere drop in the ocean compared to the price hikes coming for two big Australian household bills this April 1.

All the changes kicking in today that will impact your hip pocket

Millions of Australian households,already grappling with interest rate hikes,have two more growing bills their budgets will need to account for.

  • Bronte Gossling
Two young women in traditional Chinese costumes on an electric scooter in east Beijing’s Dongcheng district.

China poised to reap rewards of global green shift as energy panic grips Asia

The country is not immune from skyrocketing oil prices,but Beijing’s intervention has cushioned the blow at it stands ready to reap the rewards of a potential global surge in the uptake of EVs,batteries and solar.

  • Lisa Visentin
Circus has delved deep into the government’s overhaul of the state’s 16 hospital and health service boards,announced by Health Minister Tim Nicholls on Friday.

A deluge of doctors join state health boards. But who’s out,and why?

This week in our Queensland public sector column,Public Circus dives into the long-awaited public health service overhaul,a familiar reviewer,the (not) hiring freeze and more.

  • Matt Dennien andJames Hall