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Soaring technology costs of 20 per cent in the past year are making it harder for Australia to roll out projects to reach its 2030 climate targets on the pathway to net zero by 2050.

Labor Party's Jerome Laxale won the Sydney seat of Bennelong from the Liberals at the 2022 election, votes from Chinese Australians angry about then-prime minister Scott Morrison's spat with Beijing were instrumental in his victory. Now Laxale and other politicians are using social media including Xiaohongshu, a Chinese lifestyle app also called RedNote, and other campaign strategies to appeal to Chinese communities who will again be a crucial bloc in the upcoming election. «If you want to communicate with your electorate, you need to go where your electorate are and some of them are on Xiaohongshu,» said Laxale, who has handed out 30,000 red envelopes with QR codes to his personal accounts on Xiaohongshu and another Chinese app, WeChat.

In the viral vide, Jones can be seen stepping out of her car at night in an undisclosed location in Australia. She crosses the road, picks up a baby wombat, and runs back toward her vehicle. The mother wombat is seen in distress, chasing after her as she takes the baby away. Another scene shows the mother wombat waiting near Jones’ car door, crying as long as she holds the baby in her hands. Criticizing the influencer, Prime Minister Albanese said, «Try taking a baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there,» emphasizing that some animals wouldn’t tolerate such cruelty. Jones was earlier criticised by Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong who dubbed the video as «dreadful» while opposition leader Peter Dutton condemned the act, calling it «cruel». There was an online petition also which had over 30,000 signatures demanding Jones to be deported from the country.

Australia’s main opposition party says it plans to build Australia’s first nuclear power plants as early as 2035, arguing the government’s policies for decarbonizing the economy with renewable energy will not work

Industry and renewable energy proponents have backed the Albanese government’s expanded Capacity Investment Scheme to help Australia reach the 82 per cent renewable energy target by 2030, but questions remain on how the scheme will work and the financial exposure for taxpayers.

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has called on the mining sector to push its own workers and advocates into parliament, so they can tear up environmental regulation she warns is jeopardising the industry’s ability to maintain its current levels of production.

Two leading No campaigners, Warren Mundine and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, have sent legal letters threatening to sue The Australian Financial Review over a political cartoon published earlier this month they say likened them to Nazis.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has called on the Coalition to disclose cost estimates for replacing coal-fired power stations with nuclear power, claiming the opposition had been dishonest in suggesting it could be cheaper than renewables.

Transport Minister Catherine King says she does not recall being lobbied by former Qantas boss Alan Joyce before she blocked more Qatar Airways flights, which the Coalition says commercially benefited Qantas.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has put the Albanese government’s move to block more Qatar Airways flights to Australia on the political agenda, saying it had provided “no coherent reason” for the decision.

Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton will formalise the Coalition’s official position on nuclear power, including possibly overturning the 1998 ban, to take to the 2025 election, saying Labor was putting “party interests ahead of the national interest”.

Households and business will be condemned to higher power prices for decades if Australia does not embrace nuclear power, according to Coalition senators who are trying to overturn the existing ban.

Queensland Liberal National Party leader David Crisafulli has rebuffed federal leader Peter Dutton’s push to repurpose the state’s retiring coal-fired power stations for nuclear power, saying it will never get off the ground without bipartisan support.