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Wholesale electricity prices have fallen, and this will be passed on to households.

Household electricity prices to fall as much as 10% after green energy surge

The regulator has proposed the steepest reductions in electricity prices for households since 2022, but the outlook remains clouded by the war in Iran.

  • Nick Toscano

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Newcastle remains the world’s largest coal export port even as decline is predicted.

New coal mines at greenfield sites to be banned in NSW

The state government also ushered in a plan to force major coal mines to reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

  • Nick O'Malley
Tigers’ Russian coal mining operations border the tiny Indigenous community of Beringovsky in Siberia.

Police dig into the case of the Australian miner and the Kremlin ‘slush fund’

A little-known Melbourne company bankrolled by rich-listers is at the centre of Australia’s first criminal investigation into Russian sanction breaches.

  • Sherryn Groch
Luke Baker (Miner driver)and Jason Thoroughgood (pit top leading hand) Myuna coal mine workers whose jobs are hanging in the balance amid a dispute between Centennial Coal and Origin Energy over the terms of a deal to supply the Eraring power station until its new closure date of 2029

‘Twist in the guts’: The 300 workers caught in a coal mine standoff

Jason Thoroughgood and Luke Baker are among nearly 300 workers whose livelihoods are on the line, caught in the crossfire of a corporate stoush.

  • Nick Toscano
The LDP001 waste discharge point near Springvale Coal into Wangcol Creek, a tributary of the Coxs River.

‘Colossal’ pollution spikes in Sydney’s drinking water catchment

The environmental watchdog has issued a clean-up notice to the operator of a coal mine near Lithgow over pollution in a river which flows into Warragamba Dam.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
WA Premier Roger Cook has defended the government’s move to provide Griffin Coal with more subsidies.

Collie coal miner gets lifeline after Cook reneges on taxpayer support pledge

Premier Roger Cook and Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson visited Collie on Wednesday, where they announced a five year extension of the Griffin coal state agreement.

  • Hamish Hastie
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The Eraring power station in NSW will stay open to buy more time for the clean energy shift.

Nation’s largest coal-fired power plant closure delayed by two more years

The massive Eraring power station on the NSW coast had already had its life extended until 2027 but will now operate until 2029, infuriating climate campaigners.

  • Nick Toscano
Alinta owns Victoria’s Loy Yang B coal-fired power station.

Singaporean giant buys major Australian power company for $6.5 billion

The deal for Alinta marks one of the most significant foreign forays into Australia’s energy market in years.

  • Nick Toscano
Bluewaters Power station in Collie.

WA’s biggest coal-fired power station to fight fines for overcharging customers

The Economic Regulation Authority has accused Bluewaters Power of pricing electricity higher than allowed under WA’s complex energy rules. 

  • Hamish Hastie
Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley with Senator Andrew Bragg walk down Oxford St in Paddington on October 21, 2025. fedpol Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

‘Sussan has been undermined from day one’: Former Liberal MP quits party in protest

Hollie Hughes resigned her membership of the party she spent six years with in the Senate on Tuesday with a furious spray at her former colleagues.

  • Paul Sakkal and Mike Foley