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Sandy Olsen returns to Australia in local VP, Corporate & External Affairs role
Travel Weekly
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August 18, 2025
Carnival Corporation & plc has announced the return of Sandy Olsen to Australia in the role of vice president, Corporate & External Affairs for Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific in a move set to rebuild the brand locally after it retired...
Woodside gas expansion would come at huge cost to the climate – and to other big emitters
Renew Economy
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August 19, 2025
Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project in Western Australia is among the largest LNG operations in the world. In May this year, federal environment minister Murray Watt granted conditional approval for Woodside to extend the project’s operations...
Up 44% since April, why this dividend paying ASX 300 energy stock could keep running hot
The Motley Fool Australia
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August 19, 2025
Home / Sector / Energy Shares / Up 44% since April, why this dividend paying ASX 300 energy stock could keep running hot Free Article You’re reading a free article with opinions that may differ from The Motley Fool’s Premium Investing Services....
Australia: Victoria updated Transmission Plan adds new REZ, 200,000 hectares
PV Tech
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August 18, 2025
In May 2025, the government of Victoria introduced the first draft of the guideline with seven renewable energy zones (REZ) for the state to help achieve its target of 2.7GW of utility-scale solar PV generation by 2040. However, the latest version...
BHP profits take a hit as prices fall for Australia’s mining exports
WAtoday
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August 19, 2025
While Trump gave Australia the minimum baseline tariff rate of 10 per cent, the fallout for the nation is expected to be wider-reaching as the biggest Asian buyers of its natural resources, particularly China, face much higher US tariffs amid an...
Victoria hits another clean energy target
Energy Magazine
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August 19, 2025
Victoria has reached record levels of renewable energy generation, putting the state well on track to meet its targets and deliver lower energy bills. Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, Lily D’Ambrosio, announced that more than 42 per...
Oil prices rise after Trump-Zelenskyy meeting as Ukraine ceasefire remains elusive
The National News
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Oil prices rose on Monday after US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed hope that talks with European leaders at the White House could pave the way for a trilateral summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin...
France updates strategic documents, and its relationship with Australia
The Strategist
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August 19, 2025
France’s latest strategic updates make one thing clear: Paris has turned a page on AUKUS and moved on. In July, it released new versions of its national security strategy (NSR) and Indo-Pacific Strategy, the latter published seven years after...
Australia: Climate-Related Transition Plans–Governing for Net Zero Across the Board
JD Supra - California
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August 18, 2025
[co-author: Thais Fernandes] On 16 July 2025, The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) published guidance on Governing for Net Zero: The Board’s Role in Organisational...
Australian Soon-To-Be Property Billionaire Jamie Mcintyre Eyes Bold Expansion In Indonesia With Planned Mini-Cities
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) Australian soon-to-be property billionaire and independent media journalist Jamie McIntyre, founder of Australi an National Review , has spent the past three years living in Indonesia, where he has rapidly built a significant...
Clima Solar Joins The Elite League Of Top Solar Companies In Australia
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) Award-Winning Solar Solutions Now Available Nationwide for Homes and Businesses Clima Solar is proud to be recognised as one of the most trusted and forward-thinking solar companies in Australia. With more Australians than ever...
The top ten most affordable cities in Australia have been revealed – and Melbourne ranked fifth
Time Out
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If you’re over crying every time you fill up on petrol or pay for a bag of lettuce, we hear you. To help Aussies decide where they might want to settle, a new study has revealed the ten most affordable major cities in Australia where you have the...
F1 series leader Oscar Piastri gets his own grandstand at the Australian Grand Prix
Lethbridge Herald
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August 18, 2025
By Canadian Press on August 18, 2025. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri will be able to zoom past his own grandstand in next year’s Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne’s Albert Park. The Australian GP announced...
Australian gas industry is the biggest user of Australian gas, says new report
Renew Economy
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August 18, 2025
Australia’s gas industry uses more of its own gas than any other sector of the economy, in a self-reinforcing demand cycle, according to a new report. Climate finance group Market Forces sought to examine industry claims that gas was critical to...
ACTU plan would fix gas policy mess and raise $12.5b for Australians
The National Tribune
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August 18, 2025
Australia Institute Previous Australia Institute analysis shows the gas policy mess created by Australian governments allowing virtually unlimited exports of gas from eastern Australia has led to a tripling of gas prices and doubling of wholesale...
Building bio-oil capacity
Canadian Biomass
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August 18, 2025
Nestled in the heart of the B.C. Northern Interior is a joint venture ready to turn the locally-produced residuals of the wood products sector into renewable fuels. This past November, Arbios Biotech, or “Arbios,” completed the construction and...
Chevron boss’s gripe about Australia: be more like the US or the Middle East
The Guardian
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August 18, 2025
The boss of Chevron, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, which reported earnings of $9bn in the last six months, has had a few gripes about Australia that he wanted to get off his chest. In an “exclusive” interview with The...
Oscar Piastri, 24, to have his own grandstand at Australian GP
News9 Live
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August 18, 2025
Others Sports News With six victories so far in 2025, Oscar Piastri has already won more grands prix in a single season than any other Australian driver since the world championship began in 1950. Australian racer Oscar Piastri gets his own...
Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy
The Register
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Boffins looking into the Australian solar energy ecosystem say that sharing really is caring – and potentially profitable when homes with solar panels can sell their excess energy to neighbors at a preferential rate. "Under current conditions in...
Oscar Piastri admits ‘very surreal’ feeling as Australian GP grandstand announced
Planet F1
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August 18, 2025
Oscar Piastri will have a grandstand named in his honour at the 2026 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. The McLaren driver will race in his hometown at the beginning of next season in what has been described as “the most premium and sought after...