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Goodbye Northern lights, hello sunlight?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

At 9.40 am local time on Monday May 9th the turbines at Alinta’s 520 megawatt Northern Power Station at Port Augusta disconnected from the grid for the last time.

And with it ended more than 50 years of coal-fired power generation in South Australia.

But Northern’s shutdown does not mean that South Australian power supply is coal-free,...

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ALP ousts Fremantle candidate

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
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The Labor party is dumping its candidate for Fremantle, Chris Brown, an official of the Maritime Union, because he failed to disclose convictions.

The convictions, going back to the 1980s, were for assaulting a police officer and driving under the influence. He received a good behaviour bond for the assault conviction, which was subsequently...

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The perils of Lindsay and the hovering Abbott shadow

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
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It’s not like the dark cloud of Kevin Rudd over Julia Gillard in 2013 but Tony Abbott’s shadow is hovering over Malcolm Turnbull’s campaign.

It was there ominously on Wednesday, when Turnbull was out in the Western Sydney electorate of Lindsay, with MP Fiona Scott.

Lindsay is one of those seats where things, good and bad, happen...

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