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Victoria's New Animal Care and Protection Laws would explicitly recognise animal sentience for the first time, and introduce an enforceable minimum standard of care for animals in the care and control of people.
The NLC calls on the NT government to bring its water management system into the 21st century and in line with its commitments to Aboriginal
18 February 2021 The Victorian Labor government has announced the creation of a new body to manage the “critical” next phase of the state’s transition to 50 per cent renewables by 2030 – the modernisation of its outdated and coal-based electricity grid. State energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio said on Wednesday that the new body, called VigGrid, would be charged with managing the suite of network investments required to accommodate the gigawatts of big solar and wind already installed and at various stages of development on the grid, and the gigawatts more to come. “Since June last y...
The national electricity market (NEM) is in a state of flux. According to the Australian government’s Energy Security Board (ESB), over 60% of existing thermal generating resources (mainly coal) in the NEM are likely to exit over the next two decades as Australia transitions towards renewable generation (mainly wind and solar) and storage. This transition away from large, synchronous, ‘always on’ generators towards asynchronous, weather-dependent renewable generators requires a revisit of existing markets and mechanisms to ensure they are ‘fit for purpose’. Set up in 2017 to coordin...