Ged Kearney's resounding win in Batman - and Jay Weatherill's gutsy election campaign in South Australia - were powerful demonstrations of Labor's willingness to take on all parties in a contest over values.
Read MoreLast year was dominated by Australia’s ongoing energy crisis. And this year the crisis will continue as long as climate and energy policy aren’t brought together in a single framework to support new investment and the modernisation of our electricity system.
Read MoreThe World Health Organisation has described climate change as ‘the defining health challenge of the 21st century”. Living in a continent where we are already pushed right up against the limit of human tolerance, that description has added meaning for Australia.
Read MoreIn the lead-up to the 2015 general election in the United Kingdom, the leaders of the three major parties sat down together and signed a statement on climate change policy that would seem unimaginable to Australians.
Read MoreLike the rest of the world, Australia is facing a historic transition in our energy sector. Several drivers of change are overlapping, presenting us with massive challenges and massive new opportunities. In order to rise to the former and take full advantage of the latter, we need to do more than embrace new technology; we need to re-establish something that has been lacking for far too long in Australia – a real national energy policy.
Read MoreI’m proud that Labor’s Climate Change Action Plan includes a target of 50 per cent of our energy from renewable sources by 2030. This is an achievable, sensible, emission reduction and energy modernisation policy which when implemented will place Australia at the forefront of the growing global renewable energy economy.
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