Power prices likely to be up 20pc even with government fixes
Published in the Australian Financial Review, written by Mark Ludlow. 15/02/23 Households and business will probably still be slugged with electricity price increases of up to 20 per cent next financial year, despite the federal…
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Time to Talk Nuclear – Hiroshima
If we are to consider the possibility of including advanced nuclear technology as part of Australia's future energy mix we must first confront its percieved challenges as well as its opportunities. Nowhere represents Japan's complicated…
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AUSTRALIANS SLUGGED WITH ANOTHER GAS PRICE SPIKE
Labor’s disastrous eleventh-hourenergy intervention has failed to reduce skyrocketing power prices with many Australians today copping a massive increase to their gas bill of up to $1,000 per year. The price spikes, of 26 percent…
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AUKUS offers scope for nuclear energy debate: opposition
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review, 30 January 2023 Washington | The AUKUS military pact between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom should be used to kick-start a debate on nuclear energy in Australia, federal…
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Australian-American Leadership Dialogue
https://youtu.be/AplASC_c070 I attended the 2023 Australian-American Leadership Dialogue in San Francisco this week where we are discussing some of the largest geo-strategic, political and economic issues.
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Nation To Pay for Frankenstein Policy
As published in The Australian online (Politics Now), 16 January 2023 Opposition energy spokesman Ted O'Brien says Australian families and businesses will pick up the bill for the Albanese government's gas price caps, dubbing the…
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OPED: Nuclear energy? Who better to ask than Japan, whose history is inextricably linked to it
As published in The Australian, 11/1/23 On my first visit to Japan as an impressionable 14 year old, my mother gifted me a book on Akashi Nagai, a physician who survived the atomic bombing of…
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NOTHING SAFE ABOUT LABOR’S SAFEGUARD MECHANISM
Amidst severe economic headwinds and a crippling energy crisis, the Albanese Labor Government is set to make life harder for Australian businesses and households with drastic changes to the ‘Safeguard Mechanism’. There’s nothing safe…
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Coalition Welcomes Chubb Review
TED O’BRIEN MPSHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGYMEMBER FOR FAIRFAXMEDIA STATEMENT 9 December 2022 COALITION WELCOMES CHUBB REVIEW The Coalition welcomes the release of the independent review of the Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU)…
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Australians Talk Nuclear – What Do They Think?
TED O’BRIEN MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY MEMBER FOR FAIRFAX MEDIA RELEASE 9 December 2022 Australians recognise nuclear as a cheap, clean and reliable source of energy but there are concerns about…
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OpEd: Labor Needs A Plan B For Energy Transition
As published in the Australian Financial Review, 6 December 2022 We need renewables to succeed. But the irony is that Labor is setting them up to fail by demonising gas, demolishing coal-fired plants, and rubbishing…
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OpEd: Time For Australia To Have A Conversation About Nuclear Energy
As published in The Australian on 9 December 2022 When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivered the keynote address at last Friday night’s Gough Whitlam Dinner, he missed a golden opportunity to tell theLabor Party faithful…
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Media Release – Power prices and blackouts will increase under Labor’s disgraceful energy deal
THE HON ANGUS TAYLOR MP - SHADOW TREASURER SENATOR SUSAN MCDONALD - SHADOW MINISTER FOR RESOURCES TED O’BRIEN MP - SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, 15 December 2022 POWER PRICES AND BLACKOUTS WILL…
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LABOR DELIVER HOLLOW ENERGY DEAL
After months of inaction and delay, the Albanese Labor Government has failed to deliver any meaningful relief for millions of Australian households and businesses facing skyrocketing energy bills. Labor promised on 97 occasions prior to…
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LABOR KILLS THE CAPACITY MECHANISM
The Albanese Labor Government is doing all it can to ensure the lights will go out and today’s energy ministers meeting has turned the dimmer switch one dial further by killing the ‘capacity mechanism’. To…
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TIME TO TALK NUCLEAR
The Australian people are being invited to centre stage for a national conversation on nuclear energy, dubbed ‘Time to Talk Nuclear.’ “It’s time to talk nuclear,” said Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy…
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LABOR AT WAR WITH ITSELF ON ENERGY AS AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURERS FACE RUIN
Reports today that the ACCC has confirmed Australian manufacturers are being offered gas contracts for 2023 at rates up to five times the levels a year ago are deeply concerning. While Australian manufacturers face the…
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The lack of a government plan to manage sky rocketing energy prices in Australia
Today, I formally submitted a matter of public importance in Parliament - 'The lack of a government plan to manage sky rocketing energy prices in Australia'. The Labor Government must be held to account on…
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Labor’s flawed modelling and broken promises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=750YRMrSzjc&t
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Fairfax Annual Report 2021/22
I am pleased to present my 2021/22 Annual Report for Fairfax. The 2021/22 Financial Year saw continued record investment in infrastructure and support for businesses recovering from the pandemic and widespread flooding. To read my…
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LABOR SIGN GLOBAL METHANE PLEDGE
The Albanese Labor Government has put international deals ahead of Australian farmers – breaking an election promise and signing Australia up to the Global Methane Pledge. Labor announced its commitment to reduce methane emissions by…
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LABOR PORK BARRELLING AT ITS FINEST
Federal Labor has today handed out $6 billion for Dan Andrews and his tired government ahead of the Victorian State election. Today’s announcement is a blatant example of pre-election pork barrelling. The funding announcement from…
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AFR Energy & Climate Change Summit
Transcript from Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Ted O'Brien's keynote presentation at the summit. It is a pleasure to be here at the Australian Financial Review’s 2022 Energy and Climate Summit, and I…
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$1.6 Billion Investment for Heavy Passenger Rail to Maroochydore CBD
Labor Transport Minister, Mark Bailey, and the Labor Mayor for the Sunshine Coast, Mark Jamieson, are wrong to say the $1.6 billion investment from the former Coalition Government for heavy passenger rail to the Maroochydore…
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Optus data breach – information and practical steps
Reports that up to nine million or even more Optus users’ data have been exposed as part of a cyber attack are very concerning. As the Leader of the Opposition says, this may be the…
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AUSTRALIA’S ENERGY MARKET EXPOSED
AGL has announced the early closure of the Loy Yang A power station in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria following a review of the company’s strategic direction. This is a disappointing outcome for Australian households and…
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CLIMATE LEGISLATION OPENS NEW ERA OF ACTIVISM
The passing of the Albanese Labor Government’s Climate Change Bill paves the way for a new era of green lawfare in Australia. Rather than addressing mounting cost-of-living pressures for Australian families and businesses, Labor has…
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$200 MILLION TO MOP UP ENERGY MARKET INTERVENTION
Australian families can expect more hip pocket pain with higher household power bills after it was revealed the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) intervention in the National Electricity Market (NEM) would cost more than $200…
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NEW ERA OF GREEN LAWFARE IMPOSED BY LABOR
The Coalition will today table a dissenting report on Labor’s Climate Change Bills following a Senate inquiry into the “narrow” legislation. Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Ted O’Brien says the legislation would become…
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