Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean joins critics of the Coalition’s energy policy, with a scathing rebuke to the ‘deliberately obstructionist’ forces slowing Australia’s progress on climate.

Climate Change Authority chair says his job is to provide ‘frank and fearless advice’ after he criticised opposition’s nuclear energy proposal

Kean, who has been one of the Coalition’s most outspoken voices on the climate crisis, last week announced he would quit state parliament * Follow our #Australianews live blog for latest updates * Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or…

Massive cloud over Tanami desert in Northern Territory reminiscent of Uluru, onlookers say

Business leaders say energy is now their leading concern as soaring electricity prices have taken their toll on many of Australia's major sectors.

A climate expert’s analysis has pushed back on the idea climate change will result in more severe cyclones, contradicting a narrative pushed by the Albanese government.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has declared Australia has reached a key milestone in its net zero transition, but the Opposition says his claims are “delusional” as energy prices continue to rise.

Sky News host Rowan Dean critiques the Albanese government's net-zero policy following the recent disclosure of the 2035 emissions targets. “According to the Treasurer Jim Chalmers, those who are opposed to Labor's insane net zero policies are ‘crackpots and cookers’,” Mr Dean said. “Well, Mr Chalmers, that's a charming description of probably 60 per cent of your fellow countrymen and women – why not go the whole hog and just call us all ‘a basket of deplorables’. “And as for crackpots, what could be more bonkers than destroying the productivity of this nation because some silly Swedish schoolgirl told us all the planet was about to explode in a fiery inferno.”

One of Scott Morrison’s top lieutenants says the former p...