Energy

Phillip Coorey

Ranga energy drives day of authority and star exposure

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Phillip Coorey JULIA GILLARD is on a mission.

Jerril Rechter

Call time on dangerous energy drinks

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Jerril Rechter Why do alcohol companies continue to make high-potency alcopops that are marketed to appeal to those at most risk - young people?

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John Fitzgerald

Distillers must take responsibility for their boozy energy drinks

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John Fitzgerald The lines between big tobacco and alcohol are beginning to blur.

Ban Ki-moon

Rio presents our chance to create a new energy future

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva April 12, 2012. 15:37 The onus is on Syria's government to keep to its promise to observe a ceasefire that took effect on Thursday, U.N. Secretary General told a news conference in Geneva. He said the situation in Syria looked calmer and he was working with the U.N. Security Council to send an observer team as quickly as possible. But he warned that the international community must remain unified to avoid Syria descending into chaos. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Ban Ki-moon Next week, world leaders gather for a momentous occasion - the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.

John Williams

The Rio dilemma: how to generate green energy, and share it fairly

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John Williams Lenore Taylor's recent articles raise one of the two critical decisions confronting humanity about the energy-climate change dilemma.

Ross Cameron

Good intentions but clean energy price too high

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Ross Cameron There are few things more dangerous than a bad policy built on good intentions. Communism springs to mind ("commune" is such a lovely word).

Nick Minchin

All can agree on green energy, but the rest is alarmist

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Nick Minchin When the film producer Simon Nasht approached me about taking part in a documentary on climate change for ABC TV, I was just a little sceptical.

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Elizabeth Farrelly

Clean energy alternatives to allay Big Coal's flood of tears

Elizabeth Farrelly To blame Bob Brown is to shoot the messenger. As we ache for Queensland's losses and rightly look to recovery, we must also heed the cataclysm's larger lesson.

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Geoff Strong

Too long the villain, nuclear industry needs to put some energy into PR

Geoff Strong What has gone so wrong that it's the byword for evil in popular culture?

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Making a poll win a breeze

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Weather vane

John Warhurst Pressure groups and organised interests are the weathervanes of political shifts.

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Abbott's new election effort is by the book

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Jacqueline Maley All writers know that books are like children. So it was no surprise that when Opposition Leader and author Tony Abbott faced the media on Monday, he clutched his latest literary creation to his...

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Plenty of decisions to be made and a bit of vision would help

AF-6 Flight 57, Pilot Mr. Mark Ward, January 18, 2012 Edwards AFB The first night flight for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

James Brown, Rory Medcalf Fast, good, and cheap - the government unveils a defence policy on Friday aiming for all three.

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Seven strategies to rally the nation's fortunes

Matthew Kidman

Matthew Kidman Is Tony Abbott about to become the single most important driver of the Australian share market?

The Zone transcript: Mark Triffitt

Michael Short Michael Short speaks with Mark Triffitt, long-time politics and policy thinker.

Hugh Mackay

Nostalgia for Kevin 07 does not a mandate make

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Hugh Mackay A political week that promised high drama ended in low farce. Rudd was denied his Second Coming.

Analysis

No time for Napthine to smell roses

Josh Gordon.

Josh Gordon Denis Napthine might take a measure of comfort knowing that voters have - more or less - backed his party's decision to make him leader.

Odds shorten on PM's little mate

Paul Sheehan

Paul Sheehan The media's obsession with Kevin Rudd may be missing the point. Shorten may be the better bet.

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Remember voters, you can steer Australia's future

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Katharine Murphy Politics is itself devaluing the currency of leadership in some attempt to remain one step ahead of opinion polls.

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Sean Nicholls

High pressure at work behind coal seam gas

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Sean Nicholls Volleys of brickbats and bouquets have been hurled in Barry O'Farrell's direction in roughly equal measure following the decision to quarantine residential areas and sensitive industry clusters from...

The hostile pen is mightier than a well-aimed Taser

Anson Cameron

Anson Cameron The conservative columnists have had disappointment and frustration to feed off since 2007.