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A proposed $40 billion gas-powered AI data centre in the Northern Territory has become an early test of Anthony Albanese's plan to ensure Australia's artificial intelligence boom is powered by new renewable energy rather than fossil fuels.
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Australia will become a “junior” partner to the United States and lose its strategic independence if it continues to push ahead with the AUKUS nuclear-submarine deal, according to a former Defence Department analyst.
Former South Australian senator Rex Patrick has labelled the $368 billion AUKUS submarine program too expensive, too risky and too secretive about where it plans to dispose of its nuclear waste.
Universities will now face tougher governance and transparency requirements under new federal standards, including public disclosure of board decisions, executive pay and consultancy spending.
Former Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has said there is a national appetite for a tax on gas exports, days before the Labor Party's National Conference in Adelaide.
Australia’s biggest conservation organisations have united behind a call to end native forest logging, arguing governments should protect forests for their environmental value rather than use them to offset fossil fuel emissions.
There are calls for an overhaul of Australia’s education funding system after new polling found more than a third of private school parents would have chosen the public system if it had been better funded.
The New South Wales Government has been accused of orchestrating “one of the bigger environmental frauds in Australian history” by using a new carbon credits method to fund a long-promised national park.
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